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29 Jun 2000, 12:29 (Ref:20219) | #1 | ||
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From Planet F1, 29th June 2000:
June 29: Minardi will be focusing on their qualifying performance this weekend, feeling that decent grid positions will enable their car to show what it is really capable of. In Canada, both drivers posted faster times in the race than in the qualifying session the previous day, and the team believe that not making the most of the qualifying hour is holding them back. Unlike other teams, the Italian outfit do not have specific engines for qualifying, and are therefore putting themselves at a disadvantage. The team are hoping that this weekend will give them the chance to show what the A21 can do, and are especially encouraged that in the last race Marc Gene was the 4th quickest in the first sector of the Gilles Villeneuve circuit, where engine power benefits from longer straights. |
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29 Jun 2000, 13:11 (Ref:20235) | #2 | ||
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So now all of a sudden minardi has a great engine?!
Well good luck to them with it, but every team is aiming for a better grid position, they'll have a hard time as usual. |
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29 Jun 2000, 15:52 (Ref:20272) | #3 | ||
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GO MINARDI!!!
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29 Jun 2000, 15:57 (Ref:20275) | #4 | ||
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FFF
Forza Faenza Forever.
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29 Jun 2000, 19:49 (Ref:20313) | #5 | |||
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A little bit :confused: nowdays MinardiFan? |
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29 Jun 2000, 21:54 (Ref:20323) | #6 | ||
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Um, well... GO ARROWS AND MINARDI !!!, in fact GO EVERYBODY!!! (except JAGUAR)
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30 Jun 2000, 00:31 (Ref:20366) | #7 | ||
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Yes, I was suspicious because I know perfectly well that the A21 is not a Minardi. Bloody journos.
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30 Jun 2000, 00:32 (Ref:20367) | #8 | ||
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Ah, so nice to see such a British piece of verbal abuse is not recognised by 'Bernie'...
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30 Jun 2000, 18:03 (Ref:20545) | #9 | ||
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OK, I've been posting with varying regularity in this forum for a while now. I find it heartening, wonderful and downright remarkable that there are so many fans of Minardi here! Before, I'd never met any! Not one. I mention Minardi in conversation and the usual response would be "yeah, right, whatever". Here it's "GO MINARDI!!!". Good to see we support the little ones too.
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30 Jun 2000, 20:08 (Ref:20575) | #10 | ||
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Well, actually I wasn't a fan until I got to this Forum. I knew nothing about them before! But the more I learned the more I liked.
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30 Jun 2000, 20:09 (Ref:20576) | #11 | ||
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And the more I disliked Jaguar!
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1 Jul 2000, 00:23 (Ref:20644) | #12 | ||
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Hands up who likes/loves Minardi? (Tristan CALM YOURSELF...) (Thats goes for me too actually...)
Hands up who hates/wants to see the demise of Jaguar? Oooooh, see the correlation??? |
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1 Jul 2000, 13:52 (Ref:20747) | #13 | ||
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........or any team that has stacks of money thrown at it and gets bog all results. The WORST perpatrators of this are BAR, of course, NOT Jaguar. Sauber, I always think could do better. When thay first came into F1 they were startlingly good. They've failed to progress as well as I thought they would. Minardi, on the other hand, have peanuts and still can qualify withing 107% of Michael Schumacher et al. Unbelievable, when you think about it.
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1 Jul 2000, 14:00 (Ref:20752) | #14 | ||
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Sauber should be doing so much better, what with a decent budget AND Ferrari engines. The less said about BAR and Jaguar the better.
Wahey! Ok, so they are 21st and 22nd, but the Minardis were only 2 seconds off of pole time. Indeed, Gene was I think 2 tenths off of Verstappen's time. Hey, it's a start. |
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1 Jul 2000, 18:48 (Ref:20795) | #15 | ||
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Here i go...
-Hate Jaguar -Like Eddie E. though -Starting to like BAR (only because of Honda) -Love Minardi -Will give uncinditional love to any car with the letters BMW or M power. |
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1 Jul 2000, 21:57 (Ref:20828) | #16 | ||
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Have to agree with you on the Irv point there:
He's my fav. because he's not afraid to speak his mind, he actually posseses a sense of humour, he's dry, ironic, sarcastic and the ultimate playboy. He has personality, something that modern F1 drivers have almost none whatsoever. He's consistent and showed that, given the right equipment, he is capable of competing with the best of them. When the opportunity arose at Ferrari, he was able to come from a long way behind to seriously challenge Mika "side-parting" Hakinnen, a vastly inferior driver. Eddie Irvine is no Shumacher, but he's not half bad. But whereas I can respect good drivers like the HHF's and Trulli's of this world, they all have ZERO CHARISMA!!! Anyway, back to the topic. Minardi's aim for better grid posisions sadly has NOT paid off. They may be close, but all the others are closer. I remeber when Minardi were mid-grid, only by the default of everyone else being even worse (!). Keep plugging away, chaps; it's getting better. |
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1 Jul 2000, 22:25 (Ref:20830) | #17 | ||
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We're getting there...
Minardi have said that this was the best qualifying performance so far all season. For Gene to be only 2.4 secs off of the pace when they hadn't tested there and without a specific qualifying engine is a bloody good job. Mazzacane at only 2 tenths slower also did good.
Ok, so it's still the back row, but only because the midfield is pretty evenly matched, and Prost now have a specific qualifying engine. It would be nice to be further up the grid - but at only 2.4 secs off pole I'm not complaining. Much. KEEP GOING BOYS!!!!!!!! FORZA MINARDI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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