Tuesday October 5th, 1999

The first day of public test for the 2000 BMW challenger came to a quick finish shortly after test driver Jorg Muller took the Williams out to a lap around the A1-Ring in Austria. It turn out that the new Engine, which had been tested at BMW's Munich private circuit of Miramas last week, had not been checked before it arrived in Austria and had sprung an oil leak.

BMW are scheduled to continue testing in Austria for the next three days.