Jordan Reportedly Gets Toyota Engines

[Taku 0]

from f1central:

Jordan's future on the Formula One grid has almost certainly been secured, it was reported Thursday morning.

Eddie Jordan appears to have tied up a 2005 deal to fit a customer Toyota engine to the rear of a Ryan Briscoe-steered EJ15 car.

Briscoe, 23 and a long-term contracted Toyota driver and 2004 tester, would - with Mark Webber in the BMW-Williams next season - be Australia's second F1 racer.

''We are now 99 per cent certain that we will be on the grid (in 2005),'' Jordan's commercial director Ian Phillips told British newspaper The Guardian.

He admitted: ''It has been a nerve-racking few weeks.''

It's expected that the Toyota engine deal is even more affordable than the annual $10m fee charged by Jordan's beleaguered former supplier Cosworth

[Taku 0]

this is very good news for all jordan fans, as well as aussie fans. briscoe gets a drive, and jordan stays in business.

[Sato 0]

sounds good to me. 2 Aussies in F1

[AutoRacer5 0]

well, at least Jordan can stay on the grid...

[Chris Strange 0]

Good News: Jordan will be on the grid in 2005

Bad News: Jordan will be just slightly ahead of Minardi

Hardly exciting...........................

[ecapdeville 0]

Good for Jordan, Eddie Jordan deserves a better team, I dont see why Toyota would be "slightly" better that Minardi, its obvious that Toyota its a better engine than cosworth (or the engine that minardi could have next season), and Jordan had won races...minardi never had.

[AutoRacer5 0]

If it'll improve jordan, i'm all for it.

[juany 0]

well, didnt see this coming - is surely good news. Lets hope they can get back to their 1997 levels again!

[AutoRacer5 0]

you mean 1998 -1999 levels, right?

[Taku 0]

Good News: Jordan will be on the grid in 2005

Bad News: Jordan will be just slightly ahead of Minardi

  Hardly exciting...........................

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chris, as it stands at the moment cosworth hasn't confirmed it will be honouring its committments to provide engines to formula one, meaning that minardi may be running its 'own' engines in 2005. compared to jordan running one of the fastest motors in f1 it means that all other things being equal jordan will be more than 'just slightly' ahead of minardi next year...

the really bad thing is this means that minardi will look even worse next year unless they can get a similarly-powered engine, if they will be there at all.

[AutoRacer5 0]

Minardi will be on the grid, paul won't let it be any other way.

[Senna 0]

It sounds as if it