Jaguar to give Lauda its blessing
Jaguar team boss Niki Lauda is expected to be given the full backing of parent company Ford to continue in the role, according to this week's AUTOCAR magazine
Ford's engineering chief Richard Parry-Jones has been carrying out an intensive three-month analysis of the troubled Formula 1 team. According to AUTOSPORT's sister magazine, he is expected to give his blessing to Lauda, whose future at the helm of Jaguar has been the subject of much speculation in recent months.
The uncertainty created by the Ford-Jordan link-up plans, which appear to have fallen apart, are thought to have convinced the senior management that attention must be focused on making Jaguar successful in F1.
A Ford insider told AUTOCAR: "We've either got to say we're 100 percent behind the Jaguar programme in the long term, or acknoweldge the fact that we're never going to be in the F1 front rank."
The possibility of Jaguar becoming simply an engine supplier rather than a complete team has apparently been rejected.
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