By Phil Giles
July 20 2004

The Jordan Ford Grand Prix team have set their sights firmly on getting a better result from this weekends race at Hockenheim than they did at the British Grand Prix. And for two members of the team, they'll be racing at home.

The team have been busy since the end of the Silverstone weekend and have completed a further 1000km testing new parts and potentially an upgraded Cosworth power plant.  Although the weather held for the Grand Prix, it broke on Wednesday, compromising the teams running.  The team also tested a 41 year old rookie Israeli driver Chanoch Nissany.

"I am looking forward to Hockenheim as it is one of my home races, following Silverstone which was almost like a home Grand Prix." said Nick.  "The atmosphere at Hockenheim is probably the best in the world especially for the spectators, being in the stadium section. You feel that as a driver too and I hope there will be a lot of supporters for the German drivers, including me. At Silverstone we had a positive test and tried something new on the mechanical side which found us a good margin of lap time so hopefully that will help us in Hockenheim.”

"I won the German Formula 3 title at Hockenheim in my first year in the series - I like the circuit." commented Giorgio.  "We haven’t been able to change the car a lot before we go there, although we have done a bit of testing at Silverstone. Hockenheim is quite fun to drive because it’s a high speed, high power track and since I enjoyed the flat-out sections of Indianapolis in the F1 car, I’m looking forward to it. It’s about technicality from the driver, finding the brake balance and really being on the limit”

James Robinson said "Hockenheim is not the track it once was – gone are the beautiful long straights and a tighter track replaces them, requiring a higher level of downforce than the old long circuit. In some respects it’s removed some of the interest of the track, as it was one of the very different circuits in the calendar but now it tends to blend into the others. It can be a very hot race and it would be a tough situation for the tyres and the drivers if we see temperatures like last year again. We have the engine upgrade that we had in Silverstone and possibly a couple of things we tried at the test following the Grand Prix.”

46664 is new Message from Bahrain

Jordan’s Message from Bahrain at this Grand Prix will be the emblem of the charity 46664. This was Nelson Mandela’s prison number during his 18 years of incarceration in Robben Island prison and upon his release and subsequent election as the President of South Africa, Mandela gave the number to rock-star Dave Stewart of Eurythmics to initiate a series of music recordings and concerts for charitable fundraising for the fight of AIDS in South Africa.

With the support of famous musicians including U2’s Bono and Queen’s Brian May, and working alongside the Nelson Mandela Foundation, 46664 has become synonymous with concerts and charity recordings such as "Give 1 Minute of Your Life To Stop AIDS". After the success of last year’s world AIDS day concert in Cape Town and this month’s International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, the 46664 campaign continues its fight to turn the tide of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. On 15th July 2004 at the International AIDS Conference, Nelson Mandela launched 46664: The Message, calling for world leaders to “mobilise and inspire people to respond to the HIV/AIDS crisis.” With 25% of the South African population affected by the HIV/AIDS virus, 46664 will benefit the Nelson Mandela Foundation's work in South Africa as well as raising awareness of the Global AIDS Fund's work throughout the world.