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Old 7 May 2003, 04:23 (Ref:591905)   #1
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Pizzonia keeps his seat

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Antonio Pizzonia will stay at Jaguar until the end of the season, the team has confirmed.

Managing director David Pitchforth confirmed that the Brazilian rookie would see out the rest of the year after Jaguar abandoned efforts to lure McLaren tester Alex Wurz.

Pitchforth said: "It's all been a bit of a storm in a teacup really."

Pizzonia said that he had been informed of the team’s decision on Saturday night.

He said: "I'm okay now until the end of this season.


"They told me yesterday and basically they said that they had made a mistake and let's carry on and make progress."

Pizzonia was under pressure after a disappointing start to the season. Jaguar sounded out Wurz with a view to the Austrian taking over next race but negotiations hit a stumbling block when McLaren demanded compensation to release him from his contract.

Pizzonia’s run of bad luck continued in Spain. His race ended almost before it had begun when he suffered a launch control failure and was smashed from behind by Kimi Raikkonen’s McLaren.

Jaguar had hoped to move Pizzonia into a testing role but the Brazilian’s manager Jaime Brito said on Saturday that he would not accept such a demotion. Brito said his client would rather move elsewhere than stay with a team that had no faith in his ability.
Not sure how concrete this really is, but I think it's fair. He know has 11 more chances to show he's worthy of a 2004 drive.
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Old 7 May 2003, 05:32 (Ref:591920)   #2
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Bloody hell, is this team managing by committee or what?

Ron Dennis has probably done them a favour in the end - hopefully Pizzonia will now be highly motivated to show that he deserves the seat - but what melodrama. Surely this isn't the way Ford ordinarily conducts business - so why is the race team so out of control?
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Old 7 May 2003, 06:46 (Ref:591951)   #3
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Good. Now let's get over it and re-evaluate at the end of the season.
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Old 7 May 2003, 08:09 (Ref:592026)   #4
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It's good news, but I don't think any of this will have helped Pizzonia
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Old 7 May 2003, 08:32 (Ref:592042)   #5
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Nothing will help Pizzaboy.
Not even a rocket shoved up his ....!

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Old 7 May 2003, 09:15 (Ref:592097)   #6
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Re: Pizzonia keeps his seat

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but negotiations hit a stumbling block when McLaren demanded compensation to release him from his contract
HAH, a 1.1 million stumbling block.
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Old 7 May 2003, 10:12 (Ref:592151)   #7
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I don't find this surprising. I think most of the news was just typical media sensationalism.

I say - he was offered a contract to race, let him get on with it now.
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Old 7 May 2003, 10:52 (Ref:592190)   #8
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No, I am led to believe that there were serious discussions going on with people other than Alexander Wurz to take the seat.... it didnt work in the end because the redtape factory got out of control, and nobody would make a positive decision

The way Jag did this is almost a TW way of doing things
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Old 7 May 2003, 10:54 (Ref:592192)   #9
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Seeing Pizzonia in F3000 last year, I thought here's a feisty driver with a willingness to race hard. Upon further review I am seeing more a driver who gets behind in his application of driver input. Hearing his interview after being knocked out of Spain, it almost sounded if he was going to cry; quivering voice and all that. If he is going to stay i hope he can buckle down/settle down and stop overdriving the car. I still would have prefered Wurz in that seat, but I guess there is always next year.
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Old 7 May 2003, 19:57 (Ref:592764)   #10
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Of course, it may have helped to motivate him. He now knows that it won't take a lot for them to find someone else - so he's likely to perform better!
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Old 7 May 2003, 21:29 (Ref:592906)   #11
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At last - a half decent management decision from the Jaguar team.
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if Team Kitty Cat didn't have all those redundancies to pay out (Lauda et al) they might have had the 1.1 mill.

Did they think Dennis was going to do them a favour?
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Old 9 May 2003, 04:17 (Ref:594156)   #13
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It is unreasonable to expect a rookie to be at pace so quickly. He's obviously got some speed so the question becomes why is he not able to use it? The team should be looking at what they can do to facilitate this process rather than threatening to can him. HHF ring a bell?
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Old 9 May 2003, 14:24 (Ref:594623)   #14
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Seems like Jag have made the correct choice
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Old 10 May 2003, 11:01 (Ref:595254)   #15
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Gehard Berger rates him highly but that is based soley on running around a track by himself, Obviously Willimas should never call on Bergers ability to spot new talent
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Pfft! What would he know?
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