Jeddah Corniche Circuit

SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX

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February 19, 2002
Mapes-VO Team Owner Matt Maple was reportedly furious to return home after a business meeting in Holland to see the rumours about the relationship between himself and "good friend" Artur Costa, he released the following statement:

"Over the past 24 hours there has been a few developments in the deal with Artur, at the moment though it is completely in the hands of the driver and our team can't do anything about it at all, we can confirm that another team has made an approach for Artur, one that we felt was unreasonable looking at the state of things at the moment but we can't do anything about it as i said before and therefore i have no further comment on this issue".

In short Matt Maple has rubbished any rumours between a problem in his "relationship" with Costa and assures everyone they are just as good friends as before.