The Hart engines are going to Minardi next season. Minardi who drove with ford last year has not announced their driver line-up yet. The Hart engines were used by the Arrows team this season and found themselves unreliable and short of power. Thios was manely due to lack of funds.

Michael Schumacher concluded the tests for Ferrari today on the Estoril (Portugal) circuit with a test for Goodyear. The Ferrari pilot completed 69 laps with a tyre change about every five laps. He clocked a best time of 1m 20.756s.

Schumacher commented on him staying on at Ferrari until 1999: "I decided to stay until the end of 1999 because I was very happy with the way things went this year and I feel at ease with the team. They also seem to get on well with me, so extending the contract seemed to be the most logical thing to do."