Audi to save Frentzen?
01/23/06 (GMMf1NET) Former grand prix winner Heinz-Harald Frentzen's embattled motor racing career looks set to be rescued.
After his DTM employer Opel shut the door, Audi will probably jump to the 38-year-old German's aid by offering him a 2006 ride.
''Heinz-Harald belongs in this series,'' Audi spokesman Juergen Pippig told the 'SID' agency, although he hinted that Frentzen would have to accept a cut to his usual $1m wage, and that the ride depends on sponsor funding.
01/21/06 We are close to downgrading this rumor to 'false' today. According to SID, Frentzen is going to drive for Audi in the DTM this year. The deal is about to be finalized and is supposed to be announced within the next two weeks. That move comes a bit as a surprise.
01/19/06 Whether he likes it or not, former Grand Prix winner Heinz-Harald Frentzen could be set to bow out of racing. The 38-year-old, who won for Williams in 1997 and Jordan in 1999, has not secured a new drive in the German DTM category after Opel pulled out of the series. Frentzen suffered a huge shunt at the Hockenheim finale, leaving him unable to train for two months.
"For it to end like this was not my plan," Frentzen told the Auto Bild Motorsport magazine. GMM