Dino Toso

It is widely rumoured that the promising young Jordan engineer Dino Toso could be about to follow former Technical Director Mike Gascoyne to Benetton.

Toso, who joined Jordan in 1997 to be Damon Hill’s and then Trulli’s race engineer, is thought to be considering a move to Benetton, the same journey made by Gascoyne earlier this year.

If Toso moves, he will be the third senior engineering departure from Jordan this year. In addition to Gascoyne and Toso, Sam Michaels, Heinz-Harald Frentzen’s race engineer for the last two seasons, has moved to Williams.

It is worrying that while Jordan does appear to be able to attract some of the best talent around, it has problems hanging on to them. In the light of the huge steps forward the team hopes to makes in the next year or two, with the introduction of the works Honda engine, you would expect and hope that key personnel would feel more happy and secure at Jordan in 2001 than they have for many years.
For some, this is not the case.