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Tuesday, February 27
Preview: Jaguar
Reuters

LONDON -- Following are facts and figures about the Jaguar team heading into the 2001 Formula One season:

2001 Outlook

The biggest disappointments of last season. Jaguar have spent heavily on recruiting new staff from top to bottom and say they just want respectability this year. They should improve but it could be a struggle. Eddie Irvine has already said he thinks the new R2 is too slow and further work is needed. Irvine, 35, is the second oldest driver on the grid now while Brazilian Luciano Burti has just one race under his belt.

Based: Milton Keynes, England.

Team principal: Bobby Rahal

Drivers:
Eddie Irvine (Britain), 35 (born November 10, 1965)
Luciano Burti (Brazil), 25 (March 5, 1975)

Test driver: Tomas Scheckter (South Africa), 20 (September 21, 1980).

Car: Jaguar R2, powered by Ford-Cosworth V10 CR-3.
Tires: Michelin.
Technical director: Steve Nichols.

Formula One record: (as Jaguar)
Grand Prix: Starts 17, poles 0, wins 0.
First GP entered as Jaguar: Australia 2000.

Record as Stewart:
Starts 49, pole positions 1, wins 1.
First GP entered: Australia 1997
First GP win: European 1999, Nuerburgring. Johnny Herbert.

2000 season (Irvine/Herbert): Eight, four points (all scored by Irvine). fourth place x1, sixth x1, seventh x4, eighth x2, ninth x2, 10th x3, 11th x4, 12th x1, 13th x4, retired x12.

Burti stood in for unwell Irvine at Austrian Grand Prix.

Team history
1996 - Former triple world champion Jackie Stewart announces setting up new team in his name.
1997 - Makes F1 debut in Australian Grand Prix.
1998 - Team revamp, Gary Anderson arrives as technical director from Jordan.
1999 - Ford take over team and announce name change to Jaguar Racing from 2000. Herbert wins at Nuerbuergring, the 175th victory for a Ford-powered car in Formula One, and turned Jackie Stewart into a winner as both driver and constructor.
2000 - Three times CART champion Bobby Rahal takes over as team principal, Anderson leaves and is replaced by Steve Nichols. Irvine scores first points for team in Monaco.
2001 - Niki Lauda joins as chief advisor to team.

Season by season (year, standing, points, drivers):
1997 - ninth, six points (Rubens Barrichello/Jan Magnussen)
1998 - eighth, five (Barrichello/Magnussen/Jos Verstappen)
1999 - fourth, 36 (Barrichello/Johnny Herbert)

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