Minardi

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Former useless F1 team that was recently taken over by Red Bull, who proceeded to sack nobody, give the staff some job security and make the team competitive in an outrageously evil show of corporate greed.

Lots of people loved Minardi because they raced "for the joy of racing, not the money". Though Frikipedia would like to point out that as Minardi never had any money, this theory was never tested.

Minardi Friki Facts

  • Finest Hour
    • Either the time Jean Alesi managed to overtake Ayrton Senna's McLaren and stay ahead for all of a corner or two in Phoenix in 1990, {err...wait... did Alesi actually drive a Minardi? Well a Tyrell at that time was worth hardly more but still} or the US GP of 2005, when the Minardi's finally had their dream result of finishing last and second to last but actually scoring points, due to the fact that half the team's tyres got knackered and only 6 cars started.
  • Saddest Moment
    • When venerable rent-a-don Giancarlo Minardi sold the team to pug-faced, media-whore gnome boy Paul Stoddart. Or indeed any point during the Stoddart reign that he dragged his little soap box out and spent an afternoon bleating about how evil richer teams are for being richer than him. All dressed up under the woefully fake "man of the people" persona he adopted, even though nobody asked him to.
  • Greatest driver
    • Oooh. Take your pick from the might of Gaston Mazzacane and Tarso Marques (who were described by Martin Brundle as being so slow "they couldn't drive a nail into a piece of wood"), Giovanni Lavaggi, Nicolas Kiesa, Zsolt Baumgartner and Patrick Friesacher. And don't forget Estaban Tuero.

Friki Stats

  • GP Starts: 330
  • Relevant GP Starts: 4
  • Best result: Finding some half full bottles of champagne the Ferrari team left behind in the Suzuka pits in 2004 and getting rat arsed in the theme park.
  • GP points scored: 38
  • Points scored by Zsolt Baumgartner on Snake 2 on his mobile during practice for the 2004 French GP: 648
  • Tarso Marques' Favourite Chinese dish: 64 with rice.
  • Lap time set by pitiful buy-a-ride test driver Chanock Nissany during practice at the Nurburgring 2005: He still hasn't finished.
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