"The relationship between engineer and driver makes a big difference to how a season goes and I am looking forward to getting to know David from a working aspect over the next couple of months of testing before the season starts. He has been running the highly successful McLaren F3000 team for the past couple of years and before that he has been the engineer to Nigel Mansell when he won the World Championship for Williams, so I guess he comes highly recommended.

"I have already had a couple of trips to the factory to see how the new car is coming along and I am really excited about running the works Honda engine in a chassis that I hope will perform a better than this year's car. We had a fundamental problem with this year that we never really managed to get on top of despite going well on odd occasions. We will not be testing the new car until sometime in the back half of January. If the package is a good one, B&H Jordan should be back in the hunt for wins and not just finishes!