Red Bull buys Minardi (Confirmed)

stiffpaper · Post by **stiffpaper** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:41 pm

JayVee wrote:I wonder if Ecclestone convinced Matisich (spelling?) to buy Minardi and get Stoddart out of F1 !!

Anyway, I don't like the idea of a company owning two teams. Surely there is a much bigger chance of the 2 teams "working" with each other. Add to that the alliance between Ferrari and Red Bull, we could have 5 cars helping Michael next year or will they be helping Massa

I know it is an exaggeration but you get the point ?

yeap exaggeration indeed.. but thinking about it... it makes sense... there might be chances that they would want to help each other... hmmmm...

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:12 pm

stiffpaper wrote:
JayVee wrote:I wonder if Ecclestone convinced Matisich (spelling?) to buy Minardi and get Stoddart out of F1 !!

Anyway, I don't like the idea of a company owning two teams. Surely there is a much bigger chance of the 2 teams "working" with each other. Add to that the alliance between Ferrari and Red Bull, we could have 5 cars helping Michael next year or will they be helping Massa

I know it is an exaggeration but you get the point ?

yeap exaggeration indeed.. but thinking about it... it makes sense... there might be chances that they would want to help each other... hmmmm...

Hasn't Ferrari always had a No.2 team?

JayVee · Post by **JayVee** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:12 pm

F1greyhound wrote:So will we see one team RBR-FERRARI-MICHELIN and another RBR-COSWORTH-BRIDGESTONE?

What a mess if they exchange their data even if I would expect an identical chassis..........

Re.this s@#$ about helping FERRARI, the red team must have really received substantial help this year to end up where they are now.

F1greyhound,

I said it is an exaggeration but say Red Bull is fighting with BMW in a race and they are coming up to lap a car from the "Rookie" Red Bull. The "Rookie" Red Bull could make life easy for the Red Bull team and pretty hard for the BMW team. That is what I meant by help.

As for Ferrari, well this year they don't have much of an alliance with Sauber after the team was sold to BMW

And the contract with Red Bull has yet to start

Saying it with a bit of exaggeration so don't be too angry

F1greyhound · Post by **F1greyhound** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:51 pm

I was NOT angry. Just a bit ironic about these conspiracy theories...and the system didnt take the synonyme for "droppings"...

There are favours done in F1 in a much more distinct way and more effective - so to buy a team like MINARDI wouldnt probably represent a wise move from that point of view

JayVee · Post by **JayVee** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:29 pm

F1greyhound wrote:I was NOT angry. Just a bit ironic about these conspiracy theories...and the system didnt take the synonyme for "droppings"...

There are favours done in F1 in a much more distinct way and more effective - so to buy a team like MINARDI wouldnt probably represent a wise move from that point of view

But I am not talking about favours. These two teams will be paid by the same company. I am talking about "potential" company policy

And I am not saying that Red Bull bought Minardi just for that reason