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10/03/2004

Faced with an abundance of websites that choose to cut and paste items from their rivals, Joe Saward's grandprix.com took a leaf out of the pitpass book some time ago and posted a fake story.

When various sites took the bait and copied the story, which didn't have a shred of truth to it, Mr Saward wrote to said sites advising them what had happened, describing the fake story as a 'barium meal', which they had swallowed, hook line and sinker.

A website is currently reporting that Roman Abramovich is determined to buy Jordan and is setting his sights on World Champion Michael Schumacher to revive the team's fortunes. Schumacher of course made his F1 debut with Jordan, which participated in its first GP on this day in 1991.

The site which is running the story has copied it from the website of a Russian publication. Unfortunately, in their eagerness to press 'ctrl' and 'c' then 'ctrl' and 'v', the 'journalists' never noticed the date of the original article.

It was dated early February when the last round of Abramovich/Jordan rumours began, rumours that were subsequently denied by all concerned.

Old news in fact!

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