Paul Stoddart
Paul Stoddart
Paul Stoddartis an Australian millionaire airline magnate, and former owner of the Minardi Formula One racing team. He later took the Minardi brand into the Champ Car World Series after his purchase of a portion of CTE-HVM Racing which he renamed Minardi Team USA for 2007...
bad dollars good losses million money operating week
The operating losses on a bad week were a million dollars and on a good week they were three-quarters of a million dollars. That's the kind of money it was blowing.
both car good hopefully planned solid
There is nothing planned for Spa, but hopefully they'll both put in solid performances. The car should be good there and hopefully we can keep the reliability up.
giving months performance public six stop
We would look at its performance after six months and the only thing that would stop us would be if the public was not giving us support.
agreement both commercial nine
There is a commercial agreement in place with Bernie for both races, with the agreement of nine of the 10 teams,
achieved emotional grown impossible men proud
To see 20 or 30 grown men so emotional made me feel pretty proud that we'd achieved the impossible dream.
sad wish
It's a very sad day and I really wish there was another solution.
entering era formula red sad
It's a sad day for Formula One when the privateers really do go, but I think we are entering into a new era where the privateers are the Red Bulls, they are really well funded.
further moving
It will be all about moving further forward.
bit five happiest hardest life maybe might pressure time
They were probably the happiest five years of my life but also the hardest and, hopefully, with a bit of pressure off maybe it will give me time to reconsider what if anything might still be around.
running tomorrow wait
We are in. We'll be running all day tomorrow and then we'll have to wait and see what happens.
came fairness peter teams whereas
Whereas EJ (Jordan), me and Peter when he first came in, and in fairness the many teams that didn't make it, probably came more up through the ranks.
invest italy offer sell team
I always said I would sell Minardi if someone could invest in the team and keep them at Faezna in Italy and such an offer has come along,
both difficult full gamble including marks point race rain scoring staff thanks today took
We took a gamble today on the rain that didn't come and started on full-wet tyres. From that point onwards, our race was effectively compromised. That said, both drivers, and indeed, the whole team, got through a difficult race and a most difficult weekend. Full marks to Tiago for scoring a well-deserved point, and my thanks to the whole Minardi Team, including factory-based staff in Faenza, for their support.
love
If there are two championships, I would love to come back in the manufacturers' one.