Ferrari aiming to debut their F2005 challenger once everyone has had a chance to win a race, whereas Jordan has been pushing forward with the idea of a Russian Grand Prix sometime in the near future.

So the car we all expect to see a lot of in our magazines this summer, the Ferrari F2005. Not the car that’ll start the 2005 championship as Ferrari are running an updated model based on last years super train. Looks are like any other Ferrari, nothing radical apart a bit of facial hair under the front wing and a white strip down the sleeves of the drivers overalls. Like Toyota’s launch it isn’t massively different to what we have seen before, and if you show the average man on the street he might confuse it with Ferrari’s hybrid version the F2004-M which I don’t expect to set heartbeats racing at the start of the season. My guess is when the new car race’s we will either be watching Sunday Grandstand with their Ultimate Fishing Championship, or be visiting our Grandmothers house for some tea. I’m saying this because whatever the F2004-M does, the F2005 will wipe the floor clean, and have time to polish the trophy cabinet. Although I do expect the other teams to be much more closer, Ferrari do have the upper hand with running their secret weapon later.

On the other side, we have Jordan, which is more interesting. Now the Russian’s have taken over, my local pizza delivery driver has secured a drive and the car has fewer sponsors than the Minardi test car. Oh dear. At lest Toyota has given it a much more powerful engine and Blue Peter have added these stick on tea trays in front of the side-pods. Its like you’ve given a load of expensive Acrylic paints to a 5 year old and told him to paint a pretty picture with them. It’s not going to work. Maybe not this year, but if, and this is a small if, they can get some proper people involved next year with some experienced drivers they might be able to move forward up the grid. It’s a sad way for the Jordan name to go, but, we will always remember Brazil 03 when against all odds they showed the world what can be done with a handful of Halfords gift vouchers and an old Ford Mondeo.     

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