Formula One Features — July 1999

Jac Nasser, the president and chief executive of the Ford Motor Company, jetted in to Hockenheim to have talks with members of the Formula 1 circus while avoiding giving away any of the company's plans in Grand Prix racing.

McLaren International is probably the most secretive of all the Formula 1 teams and does not like to give away any information if it can be avoided.

It is only a few months since Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Tony George announced that the world's most famous racing circuit would host a Grand Prix in 2000.

Way back in 1962 Soichiro Honda set his engineers the task of building a car and an engine that would win in Formula 1.

Few topics have caused as much discussion over the last 5 years as that concerning overtaking in Formula1.

Forty years is a long time in motor racing. The last forty have seen the technical explosion that has taken racecars from the front engined, tube-framed, skinny-tyred vehicles, devoid of all aerodynamic aids other than an eyeballed, aluminium, streamlined body, to the sophisticated machines racing all over the word today.