In 1998 Craig Pollock persuaded British American Tobacco boss Tom Moser to bankroll a F1 team and he bought Tyrrell Racing for 26 million dollars. In 1999 Tyrrell became BAR and they signed up Villeneuve for their debut season. Their world champion driver only managed to finish four races for the season with a best place finish of 8th – only marginally better than Rosset had managed the season before…maybe it was the car that was the problem and not the driver…