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But with the top teams spending upwards of $100m on their engine programmes, where does that leave Cosworth if they've only two to three potential customers, looking for deals for $10m? Their engineers might be first rate, but the market doesn't see…
Mechanical grip - traditionally a Minardi strong suit, but these days who knows?
I'm quite hopeful for the PS05 to at least be respectable. Jordan had a diminished technical staff, hacked about last year's car, spent virtually no money, and hired r…
I was way less uneasy when Stoddart was firmly in the Max'n'Bernie camp (though he got slagged off for that here too). He isn't going to win this one, even if the fundamental points that he (and Ron, Frank and the rump of the GPWC teams) are making …
Ha Ha Ha, what a laugh. Looks like our hack chassis is better than the Jordan. If only we had some sponsors and didn't run the team like some sort of crazy circus act...
This must be about the 06 engine rules. Stoddart is the fall guy who goes to court, proves that Max is acting illegally with the engine change, leaving the whole package of changes, including the V8s for 06, effectively illegal.
Merc and BMW don't …
What is the point of racing if you agree before hand to pull over for the other guy? Defeats the object of entering somewhat...What a farce, and self inflicted.
It started off with no merchandising, now we've got no sponsors, no team branding, no …
Even though Todt is and always has been soulless scum, this isn't his fault, is it?
The only explanation I can come up with that explains Stoddart's behaviour is that Bernie has bet him $10million that he couldn't get all the other pirhanas to allo…
Another one of those days when being a Minardifreak just hasn't been much fun at all. Why do we put ourselves through it? No choice I suppose, I'd rather chew glass than support any of those other tossers.
Tough on all you Ozfans if it doesn't get …
Stoddart had it coming on this one. There's no argument you can make for a need to operate to different rules. They should have built an 05 spec diffuser, got the other teams to agree not to enforce 107% if required, and got on with it.
There's no …
It's not actually black on the old liveries, it's midnight blue. It just looks fantastically dark because of the interaction with the other colours. The M191 was the best example of the original colours.
As for the open cockpits, yes, they look gre…
Whaddya mean, P10? Even if you think that, don't say it!
1. TOIT
2. Renault
3. McLaren
4. BAR
5. Williams
6. Toyota
7. Sauber
8. RedBull
9. Glorious Minardi Team
10. Yellow scum
MS as driverchamp.
Alonso and Fisico drive each other to new heights.…
There's a point to be made about the way the cost cutting plan is falling apart, and that Max is a key culprit. But this is not the way to make it. Ther is no plausible victory scenario. Max defeated the manufacturers over the V8s, effectively the s…
That's the "tidied up" version, and it's still the ugliest thing since the McLaren MP4-10. I weep for the drivers, that team is going to be no place for a rookie.
Indeed.
Logic will always dictate that Minardi should be last. Well, if everything's quite so hopeless, why do we bother? Because there is something special about Minardi, that's why, even if most years the forces of darkness conspire to snuff it o…
There is not and will not be a 2005 Jordan - just last year's horrendous disaster with new aero and a Toyota engine bolted in. Tiggy should have signed with us.
But let's wait til the PS05 proves fast before we get carried away, but I'm sure it wil…
Once the new car is out, it would have to be an almighty failure to not beat the Jordan - rubbish chassis, hack updating to different rules and engine, the plan to do a new chassis for mid year now all but finished with Smith's departure. The Tojo e…
Minardi will have made a tiny profit in 04 (a triumph in the circumstances), but no grounds for significant progress. There is no warchest to build a midfield team infrastructure (even if you could do it in a few months).
Stoddart is relying on his…
If Stoddart was boasting of going out there and whipping Jordan's arse, and Red Bulls too while he was at it, who would be the first to say he was talking a load of rubbish, living in a dream world, just saying the same shite as at the start of 2003…
I suppose with Judas still involved, it is still sort of Jordan, for now.
Do we think the RussoCanadian will only run with it for one year and set up with Dallara for '06? And if so, do you think EJ has got any clauses in the deal to protect his st…
Yes, it would be a major blunder, this year is shaping up to be critical - why throw it away, even for $5m more, unless you were still totally on the ropes and threatened with going bust?