March 14, 2002
Dan Lawrence has resigned from his seat at DPI Racing, effective immediately. The British driver is reportedly very unhappy with comments made by his Team Manager, Dan Prescott, in a lengthy ICQ debate late last night.

"While in a heated debate with Dan P regarding reliability issues, he casually suggested that DPI 'could' pull out of the GPVWC, leaving myself without a drive." Lawrence commented, "I took great offence to this and saw it as a blatant threat/blackmail attempt....which is the main reason I am resigning"

Lawrence continued, "I have always tried my best for DPI, and really do not want to continue racing for a Team Manager who would try a trick like that"

Lawrence confirmed that he will not be starting the Malaysian Grand Prix.