Latest Japanese Formula One News
Latest Japanese Formula One News
1996 World Champion Damon Hill's first driving for TWR Arrows Team will be
held at Suzuka on November 14 and 15. He will drive Bridgestone's Ligier
Mugen-Honda which has been used as test car for Bridgestone tires. After
Japanese Grand Prix, Ricardo Rosset drove Bridgestone tire shod Arrows-Hart
and marked three seconds faster time than his Japanese Grand's qualifying
time.
Although their 1997 entry has been delayed until 1998, Japanese racing car
constructor Dome will do Time Attack Test at Suzuka with their original
Formula One car Dome F105 Mugen-Honda on October 30-31. Their regular driver
Shinji Nakano will drive Ligier Mugen-Honda in 1997 Formula One season and
will test Ligier in Europe. So Naoki Hattori will drive Dome F105 Mugen-Honda
at Suzuka. According to Nakano who drove both Dome F105 Mugen-Honda and Ligier
JS43 Mugen-Honda, power of Dome's test-engine is about 50hp less than Ligier's
race engine. So "Target Time" will be 1'43s, Dome Team expected.