We are going VERY OT here and I don’t like too much to talk about these things, I almost regret to have entered this discussion, but given your comment I just couldn’t resist.
Obviously I’ll give you the explanation, but I would then prefer to not further comment after it.
When Stoddart arrived he made it look like it was starting a new life for Minardi, and that financial problems were going to be a memory of the past and nothing else. What it really happened is very different, since he became owner of the Minardi team he did a quantity of things, one worst than the other, more often than not trying to take advantage of the fact that F1 needed a 10th team hence assuming others had to bend over just for him.
Starting from the change from Michelin to Bridgestone pissing off both tyre manufacturers and threatening them (remember when Minardi tested with Avon slick tyres ?) to obtain a furniture at the conditions he wanted, then pissing off with a not very kind behaviour several sponsors that Giancarlo Minardi, although not owner of the team anymore, was working 24/7 to find, then pissing off all the members of the team that spent lot of time designing a couple of cars that were never built, since 2002 till start of 2005 they basically used always the same chassis. On the contrary he preferred to buy someone else cars first for his business of the two-seaters F1, then the A23 (hinting that Minardi guys they weren’t good enough to design a competitive car) that in spite of his hopes, resulted to be not better (or even worse) than an update of the previous year Minardi.
And that without talking about the political fights with FIA and basically everybody else or about the 2005 Australian Gp affair and a quantity of other things, like for example the... the... I don’t have a word to define them actually... let’s call them test drivers although Zlobin and Nissany shouldn’t even be defined drivers.
Giancarlo Minardi (and the poor Rumi, RIP) had for close to 20 years lot of financial troubles but always managed to take care of them with class and dignity, without pissing off other people and trying always to do the best for Minardi, sometimes even achieving reasonably good results, sometimes not, but, most important thing, allowing to start a F1 career for many young and promising drivers and for many young and promising engineers.
In few years Paul Stoddart managed to transform the Minardi team, that almost everybody in F1 and amongst the fans loved and respected, in an annoying thing everybody wanted to get rid of as soon as possible. The simple fact that he was still using Minardi name was an insult.
Ok now rant is over, sorry if it sounded too passionate... now let’s just discuss about more interesting things.
, but why don't they do that now?
Is it better for aero or against the rules?
, my mistake. Sorry I didnt understand the piont you was trying to make.
all aussies are passionate about sport 