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| MINARDI F1 TEAM HISTORY |
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O XRONOS PAIRNA OMOS H AXIA THS MINARDI PARAMAINEI ANALOIOTH!!!
Se mia omada me istoria apo to 1985 polles omades alles neoploutes omades den einai para mia trypa sto nero. O xronos apedeixe oti mia mikri omada mporei na antapexelthei me epitixia sta synexomena protathlimata tis f1 akoma kai me mikro baget.Omos telika to 2005 to kathestimo ton simferonton katafere na sintripsei tin Minardi gia na emafnisei mia nea omada thigatrikou xaraktira allis omadas, parola ayta O Gian Carlo Minardi den thelise na svisei telios to onoma tis Minardi apo to mixanokinito athlitismo kai etsi proxorise stis dimiourgia tis MInardi Team i opoia apo to 2006 agonizetai sto protathlima Euroseries.
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MINARDI HISTORY
Founded in 1979, with the aim of competing in the European Formula Two Championship, the Minardi Team makes its debut in Formula One in 1985. After spending its first few seasons in motorsport's top category acclimatising to the demands of Grand Prix racing, in 1988 Pierluigi Martini gets the first World Championship point in the USA, while the team takes several points in 1989, scoring in Great Britain (fifth and sixth places), Portugal (fifth) and Australia (sixth).
Minardi's best season to date is 1991, when its effective, Ferrari-powered chassis allows the team to claim seventh place in the World Constructors' Championship standings.
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The Future of Minardi. |
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The 1993 car is designed under the supervision of highly regarded Austrian, Gustav Brunner, and the chassis turns out to be highly effective, fourth place in South Africa, fifth in Monaco, and sixth at Donington and Imola propelling Minardi to eighth place in the Constructors' Championship.
During 1994 and 1995, Minardi enters into a joint-venture with Scuderia Italia. Unfortunately, a series of commercial difficulties jeopardise the team's future and, by the end of 1996, an alliance formed by Gabriele Rumi and Flavio Briatore acquires the majority stake in the company.
The 1998 season marks a turning point for Minardi. Briatore severs his ties with the company and his shareholding is acquired by Gabriele Rumi, who thus becomes majority shareholder and embarks on an extensive restructuring and upgrading programme. The team is joined by new, highly skilled personnel on the technical side, while Gustav Brunner makes a welcome return to the Minardi fold. The hard-trying team's efforts are rewarded when it finishes the 1998 championship in 10th place, achieving an objective set at the start of the season.
In 1999, Minardi is further strengthened by the arrival of Cesare Fiorio as Team Manager and Sporting Director. Once again, the Faenza-based team finishes 10th in the World Championship standings, on this occasion courtesy of a very valuable point scored by F1 "rookie", Marc GenΓ©, at the European Grand Prix. For the team, one of the most satisfying aspects of the season is the excellent reliability of the M01, which provides its drivers with 10 top-10 finishes.
In the year 2000, the Faenza-based team celebrates its 16th year in Formula One, and although the team fails to score any points during the course of the season, it retains its tenth-place ranking in the World Championship standings with superior placings to the notably better funded Prost team.
The 2001 season marks another watershed for Minardi, as the withdrawal of a major sponsor at the end of the previous year leaves the team in difficult financial circumstances. As a result, it is acquired in late January by UK-based Australian businessman, Paul Stoddart, head of the European Aviation Group of companies, and merged with his European Formula Racing operation in Ledbury, England.
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The First Year on F1. |
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His plan is to retain Minardi's distinctive character in the Formula One paddock, while providing EFR personnel, technical expertise and financial stability to strengthen the team and improve its overall competitiveness in the future. Against all the odds, the new European Minardi PS01 chassis, powered by a European V10 engine (an uprated version of the previous season's Fondmetal power unit), is produced in six weeks and three days, and a pair of cars line up for the opening Grand Prix of the year, in Melbourne. The team finishes 11th in the 2001 World Constructors' Championship and spends the year laying a solid foundation for what Stoddart intends should be significant future progress.
(Drivers: Fernando Alonso, Tarso Marques, Alex Yoong)
Minardi's 2002 effort involves the all-new PS02 chassis, powered by 's latest AT02 engine. Unlike 2001, a busy testing programme commences in early January, following extensive wind tunnel development of the team's latest F1 challenger. With a strengthened technical team and sponsorship package in place, Minardi is poised to take its next step on the all-important journey to increased competitiveness.
(Drivers: Alex Yoong, Mark Webber)
In 2005 the Minardi F1 Team was acquired by Red Bull and now, in 2006, the new Minardi Team by GP Racing is going to start a new adventure in Euroseries 3000.
Saturday, January 28 2006 is an important date for motor racing. After the purchase of the Minardi F1 Team on the part of Red Bull, it seemed that the Minardi team was destined to disappear from the international scene, but fortunately it didn’t happen, thanks to the intervention of GP Racing , wanting to preserve the wealth of experience accumulated over twenty years of Formula One. The Minardi Team, born from the new partnership between Gian Carlo Minardi and GP Racing , is destined to compete in the new Euroseries, the continental championship born from the CSAI F.3000 Italian Trophy. The cars of the new Minardi Team by GP Racing are the cars Lola B02/50, while the colours are those of the debut, yellow and dark blue, restoring the logo of the past, a gryphon holding a sword. The targets of the new team are clear: stand out in the championship and launch young talents in the Formula One and in the highest categories of world motor racing |
Minardi Team 2001. |
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