By steve
May 11 2003

11/5/03 Mark Webber has made a long-term contract with Jaguar Formula One racing. The team is hoping to continue the relationship and steadily improve the peformance of driver and car until they're genuine championship contenders. David Pitchforth - managing Director made the following statement: "Mark is an outstanding talent and everyone at Jaguar Racing is naturally delighted that the partnership will extend to the end of the 2005 season. His start to the season has been very impressive and his approach to racing is very professional, both inside and outside the cockpit.
We see Mark as an integral part of our long-term development. His natural abundance of skill and commitment provide a considerable impetus for the team to continue strengthening at all levels of the business and in the process, take our challenge to teams further up the grid."

Mark Webber made these comments: "I hope that, by making this announcement so early in the season, people will realise just how serious both our intentions are to firmly establish Jaguar's place in Formula One. We know it's not going to happen overnight, so I'm very happy that we've made this commitment now and can continue the hard work we've already started this year.
For me, personally and as a driver, I'm very excited by the prospect of being involved in what is a long-term objective, and to see our goals being realised as we make further progress over the next two years."