Jaguar ruing Klien decision?

Jaguar's managing director David Pitchforth has conceded that the team may have been too hasty to promote 21 year-old Christian Klien into the driving seat alongside Mark Webber and that the young Austrian may have been better off running as a test driver in 2004.

Pitchforth told British newspaper Motorsport News "We lobbied Red Bull very hard to make Christian the tester...I think they now admit that maybe that was the better move."

Klien, who brought substantial backing with him from Red Bull, has had a tough learning curve thus far in 2004 in a car that isn't the most reliable on the grid. Although he has scored no points, he has brought the car home on all but three occasions and has a best qualifying result of tenth, earned in Montreal two weeks ago.

Klien's team-mate Mark Webber has scored two points courtesy of a seventh place finish at the Nurburgring although the Australian has failed to finish five times.