MINARDI M192 | GIAN CARLO MINARDI’S DEBUT IN “HIS” IMOLA

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Sunday May 7, 2017, Imola’s Enzo and Dino Ferrari Circuit. This was certainly another important date in the history of the Minardi Team and especially for Gian Carlo Minardi.

Since we began this trip amongst the cars from Faenza many of you fans have asked us to tell the story of the Lamborghini powered Minardi M192 but we deliberately waited.

As we said, May 7, 2017. Why this date rather than go back to May 17, 1992, the day of the M 192’s debut in the Formula 1 World Championship at the San Marino Grand Prix (the 5th Grand Prix)?

We are again at the Santerno circuit but the occasion was the second edition of the Historic Minardi Day, the event created by Gian Carlo Minardi together with his brothers and brought to the track alongside Formula Imola.

Collector and driver Fritz van Eerd made available to Gian Carlo Minardi the M192-Lamborghini (ex Fittipaldi. Zanardi and Morbidelli) who thus made his absolute debut at the wheel of one of his cars. In fact, we discovered that before then Gian Carlo had never wanted to try one of his cars.

The circuit’s pit lane and terrace were full of fans and the Gian Carlo’s exit from the pit was accompanied by a roar and applause.

“It was a magic moment and I must thank my friend Frits van Eerd. This event will stay in the history of the Historic Minardi Day, also because I’m sure I set the slowest ever lap at the wheel of a racing car,” remembered a smiling Gian Carlo.

The racing car designed by Aldo Costa mounted a Lamborghini engine-gearbox group and is characterized by a highly visible front wing inspired by the Jordan (which proved to be rather unstable).

This solution was the main cause of the performance problems of the car as it was extremely hard to find a good compromise between slow and fast, while on some circuits such as Hungaroring and Spa it was downright undriveable.

At high speed the front wing loaded too much forcing penalizing choices on the set up to avoid under steer at speed. In view of the Italian GP in Monza the team decided to take a step back and returned to the design of the M191 and the balance of the car changed radically.

Not coincidentally, on that weekend Morbidelli took 10th place on the starting grid while in Japan Fittipaldi took a deserved 6th place.

It was a car with major potential, unfortunately created badly, but it is still in the hearts of many fans. Since May 7, 2017 there is also another reason.

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F1 – Spanish Grand Prix, race: Gian Carlo Minardi point

Redazione — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:01:13 +0000

The end result of the Spanish Grand Prix accurately reflects the forces in the field this season, with a Red Bull unstoppable unless reliability problems, as we saw with the clear victory of Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel accused by the problem on ‘ braking system

On the other hand we have a Ferrari race pace is reliability and its two strongest points with Alonso who drew the best from this F10, although it is currently not the best of Formula 1. At the Prancing Horse is missing a lot on the lap, as evidenced by the 7 dec. accused by Mark and Sebastian during qualifying. As has been stressed on many occasions, any errors or reliability problems, the two Red Bull are imprendili and also this Sunday, history repeated itself: the perfect car driven by a driver who has managed the great all week End went on to win the grand prize. In contrast, the little German was betrayed by his car when he was behind his teammate.

The situation is different in the house where Lewis Hamilton McLaren suffered a technical problem on the last lap and a half, which helped the Spanish Ferrari. Return home of the Anglo-German team world champion and current championship leader was given a fictional weekend anonymous course without taking any risk. Even in the collision with Michael Schumacher was immediately surrendered. Was certainly not one of his best weekend, although the fifth-place finish allowed him to keep the top league.

Barcelona gave us a renewed Michael Schumacher for the first time this season has managed to stay ahead of his companion, completing a great race, struggling with Button, passing under the checkered flag in fourth place. I think Rosberg ran into a little lucky day and probably not the Montmelò suits its characteristics. That said, as to not give Michael finished before this race, now I can not condemn Nico certainly, in the second half of the race was bottled in traffic.

Among the so-called second-tier team race after race, the Force India, along with his driver Sutil, is growing. Very nice fight with the Polish Robert Kubica Renault house that is leading the French team than those who are his expectations. These two teams were the protagonists of a wonderful weekend and probably be here until the end of the season will contest the fifth and sixth place in the Constructors Championship
In a week you will be back on track through the streets of the principality and the supremacy of the Red Bull, we see how others manage to overcome the shortage blamed on technical lap. Then the race will come into play other factors, like weather, the reliability and capabilities of each pilot. Just for the fifth round had aired the possibility to carry out the pre-qualifications to slower machines. Fortunately this was ruled out. Races are races for better or for worse. They are made with skill and luck, and then must manage the best lap time, although clearly the slowest cars will create inconvenience, as we saw on Sunday during the race.

Finally I am pleased to emphasize that the podium on Sunday has been designed by three drivers who began their adventure in the city of Faenza: Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber signed their Formula 1 debut with Minardi, while Sebastian Vettel to wheel of the Scuderia Toro Rosso went on to win his first grand prix. It means that in our town atmosphere is very nice for racing. Remaining riders in the topic, then I salute you, Robert Kubica is confirming to high levels, as Nico Rosberg I always thought to be a fast driver error.

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MINARDI M192 | GIAN CARLO MINARDI’S DEBUT IN “HIS” IMOLA

F1 – Spanish Grand Prix, race: Gian Carlo Minardi point