Maybe Zanardi’s not gone today, but he may be by Sunday, when an announcement is expected from the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.Īfter becoming only the third repeat CART champion with a fourth-place finish in Vancouver, Zanardi flew to Italy to be with his wife, Daniela, for the birth of their first child, a boy. “I wouldn’t say Alex is gone today but then again, I wouldn’t say he’s coming back,” he said. Ganassi hedged when asked about Zanardi’s replacement. Williams had previously lost a driver, 1997 champion Jacques Villeneuve, for next year.
Frentzen will drive next season for the Jordan team and Schumacher for the Williams team, where Zanardi also is expected to land. Heinz-Herald Frentzen, who has said he would like to leave Formula One and try CART, was also rumored to be in the running but he took himself out of it Thursday, when he and Ralf Schumacher swapped Formula One teams. Sospiri, who qualified for the front row of the 1997 Indianapolis 500, has been racing a Ferrari this year in the International Sports Racing Series in Europe. Vicenzo Sospiri, 31-year-old Italian sports car driver, will join Gurney’s team this weekend in the Honda Grand Prix of Monterey at Laguna Seca Raceway. But at the same time, we are happy to see him go to a front- running team, which only underlines what we have known for a long time-that he is one terrific driver.” He will be sincerely missed by all of us. “He won Toyota’s first-ever 24-hour race at Daytona and helped win two GTP manufacturer’s championships.
“We have mixed emotions about losing PJ after seven years with our team,” Gurney said. Patrick will also announce that his team is switching chassis, from Reynard to Swift, in 1999. PJ Jones, who’s stepping aside with four races remaining so that team owner Dan Gurney can find a replacement for his Toyota-Eagle, will be named today as the driver for one of Pat Patrick’s cars next season. The announcement that two-time CART champion Alex Zanardi is leaving Chip Ganassi’s champ car team to return to Formula One could be made as soon as this weekend, but waiting for it hasn’t stopped the driver dominoes from falling.
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