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Pieces of the puzzle ( the second driver parade )
Dear Minardi-fans,
Let me make a big entrance by telling you Jos "The Boss" Verstappen MIGHT drive for Minardi in 2005. I just received the news after Jordan-Midland announced it's drive-lineup to the public.
With Robert Doornbos being rulled-out of a Jordan-midland drive, his dutch sponsor Muermans will invest part of the money in Robert by securing a testdrive while the other part will go to Minardi in order to secure a drive for Jos.
But, yeah there's is a big BUT, at the moment Jos is not willling to join Minardi in the knowledge he will become a backmarker during season 2005.
So here's the idea, and it's pretty brilliant....
Minardi will start the season with Albers and Kiesa using the old PS04. After the GP of Imola Verstappen will test the new PS05! If it is as good as Paul makes us believe it is, Verstappen will join Minardi! He will test the car on the Imola track and can compare the times with the ones recorded by the other teams during the gp-weekend. This way he can say with pretty good sertainty if the car is able to be a mid-field - or better - contender.
It's all up to Jos and if he like to join Minardi by believing the windtunnel results we should see him as early as Melbourne. This is why Paul kept his options open by saying "The second driver will be a european, he have driven for us before and has experience". Could be Kiesa, Jos, Wilson, etc, etc....
Prepair for the return of the comeback kid. Seal your frontdoors, hold-on to your children, cause Holland will shake when this news hits the streets!
Comments
Any takers on how big this thread will inflate to?
Interesting theory, but ...... SOURCE ??????
So you're basicly sayig this: Kiesa might be taken on a 4-race contract, with a possible race-by-race extension, untill Jos makes up his mind !!!
I feel welcome allready ;)
I guess this tread will explode and i couldn't believe me ears either when this news hit my ears.
I'm not dutch myself, but i've always felt sympathy for Minardi and Jos. I believe he never got rid of his damaged imago after season '94. When i saw him scooping P1 at Magny-cours for Minardi in 2003 i couldn't help dropping a tear of happyness, altough he was a bit lucky, but 3 seconds quicker than Firman ;)
[Edited on 3/2/2005 by Crunch]
[Edited on 3/2/2005 by Crunch]
Hello Cruch, a warm welcome and put your helmet on!!
This probably is bullshit.
Honestly, are you Jos?
If the PS05 delivers, so will he.
see your mailbox for the loophole
Personally I don't believe one word of this story.
NURSE!!!
The truth is Verstappen will never race in F1 again. If he was rated even half as highly as people think he would be a test driver somewhere right now.
plus no source.
I think Kiesa is most likely, unless Stoddie pulls Gene out of the bag.
Somebody please tell me why I'm even bothering with this reply anyway!
Like Oz said, here we go again!
now. TDW is considering a return. Wow, i can already
see the celebrations starting in the factory. Everyone
get out your hats and put up the decorations.
The big disappointment is coming back.
Time to party.
But seriously Crunch, if you'd be paying attention you would
have seen that the TDW according to rumours is already
driving for every other team in the F1 (except TOIT) so
your rumour about TDW's return to Minardi (to say the leasts)
is just one of the zillion other rumours that TDW is sending
into cyberspace. Why, well, what else would a former F1
that has been spitted out by every F1 team do. It's
not like he will be able to get into shape (uh, sorry, needs to
be in shape) for the season to start
:cool:
Could try getting badoer again. He'll give us a boost and he's had a go in the new TOIT. ;)
[Edited on 4/2/2005 by Alloy]
[Edited on 4/2/2005 by Alloy]
he'll download whatever he needs himself :cool:
Hmm, maybe i can try hacking their network.
Username: Worldchampion
Password: AgainandAgainandAgain
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Welcome back Woldchampion to TOIT online
Do you want
1) become worldchampion again
2) see the new specs
3) give that other driver his instructions
4) see the test results
5) see the race results of 2005 & 2006(updated)
6) see the old spec
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:spank:
PS GET BADOER
[Edited on 4/2/2005 by Minardifan2002]
But something else does appaear to fit in : Kiesa does not have sufficient money to drive an entire season.
No, suppose he's got enough euros for three races...
lock
Old memories are flashing by. I hope to see such a picture after a GP this year. Let's wait and see...
** Unfortunatly this site thinks it funny by replacing Verstappuhn in TDW, so the link doesn't work :cool:
BTW. Lock, i'm not the weird Lazarus you are talking about. He might be a Tom Walkinshaw gone crazy :P
[Edited on 4/2/2005 by Crunch]
[Edited on 4/2/2005 by Crunch]
maybe they want to sponsor us? :P