Jordan Plan Monza Debut for Revised Car
Jordan plan to give their heavily-revised car its race debut at Monza next week after weeks of teething problems
The Silverstone-based Formula One team will give the Toyota-powered EJ15B its first full test at the Italian Grand Prix circuit this week before a final decision.
The car's debut has been delayed repeatedly since the original target of the French Grand Prix on July 3.
"We hope to close the gap to the other teams," said Indian driver Narain Karthikeyan. "We've had problems with cooling and stuff but the car is very compact, very nicely done.
"Touch wood, if we don't have any problems we will race it at Monza. The simulations say it is a big improvement from the current car but really until you are on the circuit you can't really know.
"We expect (an improvement of) seven 10ths (of a second) out of it. If we have one second we will be really happy."
Jordan are ninth in the 10-team Championship. Both Karthikeyan and Portuguese teammate Tiago Monteiro were beaten by Minardi's Dutch rookie Robert Doornbos in Istanbul on Sunday.
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