Williams may be charged with death Senna
The public prosecution office in Italy wants to charge Frank Williams for the death of Ayrton Senna, who got killed at Imola on May 1 1994 possible due to a badly welded steering rod. The Italian judicature holds Williams responsible. Williams could stand trail for manslaughter.
Ex-Formula One world champion Jackie Stewart is seeking sponsorship for his Formula One team, which will start competing in 1997, in Asia. He already had talks with a Malaysian consortium. The Singapore property and hotel group were 'very interested' he said. Stewart also wants to go to Thailand, the Philippines, Japan and Taiwan to seek finance for his team. Stewart added: "I would like to have at least one British company, one North American company and two from the Asian basin."
The Ferrari tests at Le Castellet were prematurely cancelled today due to bad weather conditions. Michael Schumacher could drive the planned laps in the beginning of the afternoon in the new V-10, but he couldn't test the new engine to the full. Despite the rain he was satisfied with the tests which will now be prolonged by his team-mate Eddie Irvine.
Patrick Head believes Hill has the best chances of winning the world championship tittle in 1996. Head said: "It's probably his best chance, I would say." He also added: "I feel Damon can do it even if Williams new signing Jacques Villeneuve is taking points off him. But that is a problem within the team that we will address later. At Williams, we always allow the drivers to race against one another at the start of the season before assessing the situation." But Frank Williams was not so sure: "It's too early to say but we are very satisfied that we have the strongest driving line-up and if there are no serious problems we will be satisfied that we can be fully competitive." Head also added they would need to work on the pitstops.