(GMM) Sir Frank Williams has hit out at his former team owner counterpart after Eddie Jordan suggested he follow suit and sell the Grove-based team to Toyota.
''I love you, Frank, really I do,'' Jordan this month wrote in his column for F1 Racing magazine, ''but now it's time to take a long, hard look in the mirror.''
Jordan, who sold his Silverstone-based outfit to a Russian-Canadian billionaire prior to the 2005 season, suggested that Williams' new engine deal with Toyota might be the ideal opportunity to call it a day.
''I suppose talk is cheap,'' Williams told reporters in Istanbul on Friday. ''(Jordan) hasn't made an offer himself.
''It's easier to say these things if you can't put your money there.''
Toyota's F1 president, anyway, played down the prospect that the Japanese carmaker might consider buying a slice of Williams' eponymous team.
John Howett said on Friday: ''I don't believe so.
''Toyota's position is to win with our own team and we are happy to have been selected by Williams (for engine supply).''
Williams even ruled out making wholesale or major changes in the short term to the structure of his team, as the squad languish in arguably its worst trough in a long history.
''Better to stick together,'' said the 64-year-old, ''rather than start ripping oneself apart.''
Written: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:24:36
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