By Bigpip
July 7 2002

Despite one car letting go and the other finishing out of the points, Jordan put up a good performance in their home Grand Prix at Silverstone.

From starting in 14th and 17th, the two EJ12's put in excellent drives to race in the top ten for much of the race.  When the rains came down, Takuma spun off and dropped to the back of the field.  He was able to recover to the pits and changed to the correct tyres. Moving up to 9th position before the engine let go 8 laps from home.

Giancarlo:
Seventh place is alright.  It would have been fantastic to score points today.  I drove well however with hard dry tyres I had low grip levels, it was slippery and the car was nervous.  It was not easy but I did my best and the team did very well too.  Starting from 17th today was our problem."

Takuma:
"Today's result is a big shame, particularly because we were looking promising in warm-up.  When it began to rain quite hard I really wanted to come back to the pits to change tyres, but unfortunately Giancarlo was already there and the team asked me to stay out.  Those were critical laps and I lost a lot of time.  After we changed to intermediates the handling was very good and I continued to get a good run on dry tyres.  But then sadly the engine just blew up.  That was frustrating but there you go.  Next race!"

Eddie:
“We had a chance for points and Giancarlo and Takuma both drove really well.  It was a great shame about Takuma's engine and I'm sorry we didn't score a better result for all our staff who are here today. I am certain that better races are in store for us.”