Double disaster for Jordan

Brazilian GP winner Giancarlo Fisichella was forced out with a gearbox problem when running in eighth position, while rookie Ralph Firman dropped out just seconds earlier at the hairpin when an oil leak sparked a fire in the engine bay.

"I was having a great race but then I couldn't get first gear after the pit stop," said Fisichella. "I worked with my engineer to get a good set-up and strategy and our pace was looking really good. I think it would have been easy to score points today, but unfortunately I stopped. I'm very disappointed."

Firman, who came into the pits to refuel on the warm-up lap, added: "We decided to change the strategy to one stop and it seemed to be working out really well. I'm not quite sure what caused the failure but the engineers are looking into it. I'm disappointed as it looks like we would have been able to score points today, and it's a real shame for the team that I wasn't able to finish."