Jordan: Fisichella Could Win this Year

Team boss Eddie Jordan has set his sights on a fourth Grand Prix win for his team and insisted that Giancarlo Fisichella is the man to deliver it.

Fisichella, 29, returned to the Silverstone-based team for 2002 after four years with Benetton-Renault, and Jordan said at the launch of the new EJ12 car in Brussels that the Italian should challenge for victories.

"We have two very talented drivers and I believe we will do much better this year," said Jordan, whose team struggled last year as they finished the season fifth in the manufacturers' Championship.

"A lot of people have been talking down our chances because this is a late launch, but we knew we were always going to come in and do this late before the start of the season and I have a lot more optimism. A win for Giancarlo could be on the cards this year."

Jordan have not won a race since September 1999 when German Heinz-Harald Frentzen was victorious in Italy, while Fisichella has yet to end his search for a win. But Jordan believes 2002 will represent the coming of Fisichella and said he is expecting big things of the Rome-born driver and his new teammate Japan's Takuma Sato.