Satoru Nakajima will be co-owner of Tyrrell


    TOKYO -RIJ- First regular Japanese Formula One driver Satoru Nakajima, currently team owner of PIAA Nakajima Racing for Formula Nippon, All Japan Touring Car Championship, will announce that he will be a share stock holder of Tyrrell Organization which is Nakajima's final team when he drove Formula One in 1987-1991.

    His team's sponsor PIAA, automobile parts (lights) and fashion manufacture, will support this program and Tyrrell's car will be black and white PIAA color in 1997.

    It is not certain that Toranosuke Takagi, young Japanese rising star in Formula Nippon, will drive Tyrrell F1 car in 1997, but he will be at press conference on November 30 in Tokyo with Satoru Nakajima.


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