Hero to zero for Fisi.

After the celebrations in the Imola pit-lane on Friday, when he was belatedly awarded the winner's trophy for the Brazilian Grand Prix, the latest round could not have gone more badly for Giancarlo Fisichella.

The Italian, delighted to have finally broken his grand prix duck, qualified in the lower reaches of the grid for the San Marino Grand Prix, and was unable to make his mark in quite the same way as he had at a soaking Interlagos two weeks ago. With his team-mate Ralph Firman pitting at the start of the race to top up his fuel reserves, Fisichella's own strategy then saw him running behind the second Jordan between stops, a consequence of losing time during his first stop when a misunderstanding led him to believe he had been given the signal to pull away while the car was still being refuelled. To complete his sorry weekend, the Italian was then prevented from taking the chequered flag when his engine let go in spectacular fashion on lap 59 of 62.

"I'm a bit disappointed," he shrugged with a degree of understatement, "I lost quite a lot of time on the pit-stop and then more time overtaking [Jarno] Trulli. I also had a hydraulics problem and eventually blew up the engine. I lost a bit of time behind Ralph too - we were on different strategies, but we were at the same part of the track."

Despite the disappointment of swapping ten points in Brazil for a lowly 15th place classification at Imola, Fisi still managed to pull a positive from the experience.

"Our pace wasn't too bad and I'm looking forward to the next race," he insisted, as the circus heads for Barcelona in two weeks' time.

Firman also failed to reach the finish, retiring with a engine problem five laps before his team-mate.

"I got held up by the Minardis at the start of the race but, once I got clear of them, I was able to push on quite hard despite a little bit of oversteer," he reported, "Later, however, I had a clutch problem and, after a couple of laps, the engine just packed up."

Having signed up for the Heathrow Agreement which restricts the amount of 'in-season' testing the team can do, Jordan will test at Silverstone this week, with Firman running on 23 April and both drivers on 24 April.

"I'm looking forward to the Silverstone test next week, as the time in the car will be a great help to me," Firman admitted, "I think I still need to improve myself in qualifying but, in the race, I always seem to do a reasonably good lap time."

"When you're not in good condition, it's best just to learn as much as you can about reliability," a phlegmatic Gary Anderson admitted after the Imola race, "They say what a difference a day makes - well, what a difference a week makes!"