“He is fine and llegador like she was his compatriot Fran1cois Cevert. - If he were free incorporated equipment”. - These were words spilled by the Scot Jackie Stewart, owner of escudería of Formula 1 Stewart Grand Prix Ltd., that existed between years 1997 and 1999, making reference in 1997 to the French pilot of Formula 1 Olivier Panis. -
The weather demonstrated in Formula 1 by the persistent Panis, (been born in Lyons, France, the 2 of September of 1966), is worthy to consider. -

The rest of Prost JS45 after the brutal accident of Panis that was 7º. -

In the Great Prize of Canada 1997, Panis suffered a violent accident with the Prost JS45-Mugen Honda/Bridgestone. - One knew later that it had to the breakage of a piece of the car and not to a conductivo error, and one was forced to be remote of the active participation of Formula 1, due to tibia fractures and peroné in both extremities. -
There were some who, hastily, thought that its sport trajectory had arrived at its aim. - But Panis, possessor of iron will and an excellent capacity of recovery, gave by earth with the ominous prognoses and could get to appear, after being absent in seven races, to dispute the cronogram of the Great Prize of Luxembourg 1997, obtaining in that competition the sixth final place on board the Prost JS45-Mugen Honda/Bridgestone. -

In spite of their discontinuity, the best activities of Olivier Panis under the main directorate of Alain Prost were in 1997. -

The preservative conductivo style of Panis was put in fabric of judgment by numerous European public, but the French Alain Prost (Chief of a main directorate of then team Prost Gauloises Blondes, which was created the 14 of February of 1997), in spite of the critics, also continued having the services of Panis in seasons 1998 and 1999, participating with the Prost AP01-Peugeot/Bridgestone and Prost AP02-Peugeot/Bridgestone, respectively, with the official title in both years and also in 2000 of Gauloises Prost Peugeot for its ambitious company. -
In 2000, the astute Panis, rightly was pilot to tester in the British equipment West McLaren Mercedes before the shortage of effectiveness of escudería of Prost, which as much required Prost to be able economically to maintain to its endeble team, that disputed its last Great Prize in Japan 2001, under the official name Prost To do. -

During its demurrage in team Lucky Strike B.A.R. Honda, Panis had like companion the ex--champion of F1 of 1997, the Canadian Jacques Villeneuve. -

In 2001 and 2002 Panis was titular pilot of the Anglo-American equipment Lucky Strike B.A.R. Honda, leading difficultly to the indómitos models B.A.R. Reynard 003-Honda/Bridgestone and B.A.R. Reynard 004-Honda/Bridgestone, respectively. -
Panis made its debut in Formula 1 in the Great Prize of Brazil 1994, integrating escudería French Ligier Gitanes Blondes and handling to the Ligier JS39B-Renault/Good-Year, finishing 11º, team with which under the denomination Ligier Gauloises Blondes, (that outside acquired by Alain Prost in February of 1997 to a shareholding group commanded by the Italian Flavio Briatore, and in which no longer he comprised his ex--proprietor and friend, the French Guy Ligier), gained his unique victory in Formula 1 in atypical the Great Prize of Monaco 1996, with the Ligier JS43-Mugen Honda/Good-Year. -

With certainty this will almost be the last season of Panis in the F1, or at least in the equipment Panasonic Toyota Racing. -

Panis is titular pilot of the Japanese equipment Panasonic Toyota Racing from the Great Prize of Australia 2003, difficultly interpreting the unequivocal directives of the engineers and technicians, with whom it maintains and infructífero dialog fluid. -
Olivier Panis will have to demonstrate itself to itself, to escudería Panasonic Toyota Racing, the analysts of Formula 1 and to the public, who with Toyota TF104/Michelin, (which is characterized to undergo continuous and noticeable modifications until arriving at a probable version B in the course of 2004), sufficiently is amalgamated like securing positive results in which he remains to complete the calendar of Formula 1 of 2004. -

Ricardo Gabriel D `Annunzio

This writing was published Thursday 8 of Julio of 2004. -