Too cautious
Triple world champion Niki Lauda has criticised BMW for not taking an aggressive enough approach to its renewed formula one foray.
BMW, the Munich carmaker that abandoned Williams after six years to buy the Sauber team, insist that victories can wait in 2006, with the only target being an improvement on eighth in the constructors` battle.
But Lauda, who once led the Jaguar team, reckons there is no time to take a cautious approach to grand prix racing.

He also said BMW, with Nick Heidfeld and Jacques Villeneuve, need a real `star driver` in the cockpits.

« If your car is no good in the first year, » Lauda said in the `Euro Sport Automagazine`, « then you still won`t have a star in the car a year later. »
Outspoken Lauda, who turns 56 on Wednesday, also panned the man at the helm, Mario Theissen, who he said is a BMW `company` thinker.
« That attitude has little to do with the reality of formula one » he said, « and can even be counter productive. »

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