Minardi

Minardi is a automobile racing team, founded in 1979 by Giancarlo Minardi. It has competed in the Formula One World Championship since 1985, though with little success. Despite this, it has a small but loyal following of fans.

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Since it started racing in F1, the team has scored all of 45 championship points (although under the modern points system this number would almost quadruple). Just over half of these were taken by the team's first driver, Pierluigi Martini. Martini also recorded the team's only front row start and actually led a lap during a heroic performance in 1989. In spite of this, the team has never been on a podium in its history, only managing a best place of 4th three times: Martini twice in 1991 and Christian Fittipaldi in 1993.

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Giancarlo Minardi: Giancarlo Minardi (often spelt as Gian Carlo) (born 18 September, 1947) is the founder and Managing Director of the Minardi Formula One team....