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From Autosport-
Team founder Gian Carlo Minardi was proud of the team's achievements despite their lack of success. In their 21-year history the tail-enders never won a race or finished on the podium.
"I'm left with the satisfaction of having built a company where in 21 years there have been 380 employees," he said. "There are teams that use more personnel in a single GP. Among them there are people who saw with me the first and the last GP, so I'm proud of this fact.
"We missed the results, the joy of a podium. There remains the good and the bad choices, like having gifted the shares of the teams to Stoddart in order to let Minardi survive. And now Stoddart has sold them, lucky him. But I prefer to have the team in Faenza rather than to read my name over a factory in England."
Minardi admitted, however, he wouldn't do it again with F1 in its current shape.
"Maybe I'm getting old but, even if I could, I wouldn't get in today's Formula One anymore," he said.
Comments
Fernando's success this year is a fine and fitting acknowledgement of the Minardi contribution to the sport.
Spin
Graham Hagger
New York, USA
From the itv-f1 website. Not a bad point.
This is a bad point:
The name is synonymous with backmarker so it is best forgotten.
Michael Sejerskilde
Denmark
[Edited on 4/12/2005 by viges]
page 124 in the highlighted quote:
"Who says the Minardi name won't be in F1 next year?"
--Gian Carlo Minardi