Paul Stoddart
Paul Stoddart
Paul Stoddartis an Australian millionaire airline magnate, and former owner of the Minardi Formula One racing team. He later took the Minardi brand into the Champ Car World Series after his purchase of a portion of CTE-HVM Racing which he renamed Minardi Team USA for 2007...
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And we were only seeing, at best, the sort of mid-30s.
love
If there are two championships, I would love to come back in the manufacturers' one.
bought healthier leave state
I leave Minardi in a lot healthier state than when I bought it in 2000.
entering era formula red sad
It's a sad day for Formula One when the privateers really do go, but I think we are entering into a new era where the privateers are the Red Bulls, they are really well funded.
carrying march passengers projected
And for us that just didn't happen. We were carrying the same passengers in February, and projected through March that we were carrying, as we were in January.
again biscuits boss might suspect tea
The meeting...with Mosley I suspect won't be attended. It will be tea and biscuits with (Ferrari boss Jean) Todt again I expect. I might be wrong.
further moving
It will be all about moving further forward.
sad wish
It's a very sad day and I really wish there was another solution.
came crying effort guys pit pride remember serious tears wall
That was a pretty serious effort and I will always remember the tears of pride that the guys were crying when I came off the pit wall that day,
both difficult full gamble including marks point race rain scoring staff thanks today took
We took a gamble today on the rain that didn't come and started on full-wet tyres. From that point onwards, our race was effectively compromised. That said, both drivers, and indeed, the whole team, got through a difficult race and a most difficult weekend. Full marks to Tiago for scoring a well-deserved point, and my thanks to the whole Minardi Team, including factory-based staff in Faenza, for their support.
running tomorrow wait
We are in. We'll be running all day tomorrow and then we'll have to wait and see what happens.
came fairness peter teams whereas
Whereas EJ (Jordan), me and Peter when he first came in, and in fairness the many teams that didn't make it, probably came more up through the ranks.
both car good hopefully planned solid
There is nothing planned for Spa, but hopefully they'll both put in solid performances. The car should be good there and hopefully we can keep the reliability up.
bad dollars good losses million money operating week
The operating losses on a bad week were a million dollars and on a good week they were three-quarters of a million dollars. That's the kind of money it was blowing.