By Huw Alban
August 17 2002

The bad news for Arrows just keeps rolling in this weekend, with an announcement from Cosworth that they have offered Jordan a three year engine deal. Although Eddie Jordan has not yet made a decision on the offer, Niki Lauda has stated that he made the offer because of the uncertainty at Leafield. Ever since the British Grand Prix, Arrows have struggled to meet the payment terms for their Cosworth engines, and this has no doubt had a strong influence on the decision to make an offer to Jordan.

“Cosworth, because of the Arrows situation, made them (Jordan) an offer for Cosworth engines next, for a three year contract,” Lauda said. “Now it’s up to Eddie to decide between Honda or Cosworth. It’s an engine deal between Jordan and Cosworth, so there’s no decision on any side now, if he wants to dump his engine and go into the Cosworth engine or not. It’s up to him. He has a proposal from Cosworth for a three-year engine deal.”

Lauda also confirmed that the deal for Jordan would be the same as the one that Arrows is currently on, so that ‘Ford Cosworth’ would appear on the side of the Jordan cars.

“There is a contract the same as with Arrows where the engine is called the Ford Cosworth engine,” he said. “The same thing applies for Jordan. It is called the Ford Cosworth engine. We call the engine the Ford Cosworth.”

“It has a sticker on the engine cover like Arrows: Ford Cosworth. It’s in the agreement with Jordan.”

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