Stas wrote:
What is go into help Minarfi is old Arrows shassis. In 2003 Paul Stoddart buoght 3 cars from now defunct arrows team. This cars had best aerodymics in 2002. I dont no why he do dont use them. if you put goodd enine in them they night be competetve.
I thought you knew it, that car wasn’t faster than the PS03 when Verstappen made a comparative test with same tyres and same engine.
So basically you are suggesting that Minardi should use a 3 years old car they know little about and that wasn’t faster than the PS03 they used last year (which was basically a slightly evolved PS02 so also in 2002 the A23 wasn’t that much better than Minardi), hence isn’t surely better than the PS04, that, although is just a slight evolution of the PS03, is a good improvement according to Bruni.
Add to this that they then should modify the A23 to install the 90° engine instead of the 72° it was designed for and they should adapt the aerodynamics (without windtunnel data about the original car) to the 2005 rules.
Scuderia-Russ wrote:
They were A23's if i remember correctly and he bought them to see if there were any secrets to unlock to potentially improve that years Minardi.An interesting approach to r+d
It was exclusively a Stoddart’s decision... as most of the idiocy in the last years...
I read an interview with Tredozi (technical director) and he said something like : mechanically there’s nothing we can learn from it, aerodynamically it generates more downforce because of the wind tunnel time Arrows spent on it, we don’t lack ideas we lack wind tunnel time.
I’ll look for the article with the exact quote but IIRC was in a newspaper so difficultly I still have it.
