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Patrick must stay! Haylen third driver!
There are many rumours about the Minardi team this week.
Seems that Patrick still not have paid and there is already a contract with Doornbos if Friesacher does not pay before saterday.
I don't like to see Robert Doornbos in owher team, in the beginning of the season he said that he will never drive for Minardi and that it would be bad for Dutch Autosports( suddenly he wants to drive for Minardi now).
They guy is a little bit arrogant and this is not good for the team spirit that we have at the moment, also he said some low thinks about Chris, don't know the reason for that.
I like Patrick and he has a hard time at Minardi at the moment, he can't compete with Albers in the race and has problems to get the wright setups.
Paul is ofcourse a buisniss man but also a loyal man, i hope he will give Patrick a fair chance.
If there must be a new driver its better to take Zsolt, another dutch men on board is not good cause there will be a nasty fight in the media about the battle between Doornbos and Chris, Doornbos is the populair guy in the media and if they got the chance they will burn Chris down, thats not good for Chris cause he is doing great now, he is getting more and more sympathy of the team, I think Chris is for sure a faster driver then Robert, thats not the problem.
Hope PS thinks twice before he gets Doornbos on board, its not the problem that there will be a sportive fight on the track between the to, but it will be fucked up by the media cause they want to see Doornbos doing better.
Another story is that Jan Halyen (Belgium) will be the third driver in Germany and for the rest of the season, this is almost for sure!
Lets hope that Patrick will get the money!
[Edited on 4/7/2005 by MinardiSquad]
Comments
...http://www.janheylen.be/fr/index.htm;)
I did a google on Jan Heylen Minardi and found this: In short the article says that Heylen is working behind the scenes some time now to become 3rd driver. He was supposed to begin at Imola, but for some reason he didn't.
Recently he was asked if he was still interested.
There is only 1 problem: Superlicense.
It will be near impossible to get 300km down before this weekend. If it doesn't get done in time he's prepared to wait a bit longer !!!
If the rumours are true...
Jan Heylen will need to do his 300Km for the super licence.
Does this mean minardi will be testing soon??
I wonder if he is being delayed while we get some new parts made ?? :angel:
I spotted the double wings on the top of the engine cover at france but I havn't noticed anything else !!
what have I missed??
Damn, less cash for the Team.
I hope Leinders or Zsolt get the job, as they were both present in France.
On 2nd, Doornbos has a new personal sponsor...KPN (dutch phone and mobile network company), this is just a test for 2 races for doornbos/KPN..... Like said in the media... doornbos could get the drive in germany..... france and silverstone are 2 races...then comes germany.. so doornbos will drive with KPN along his side at minardi..
DOUBLE DUTCH!
Aren't we all? :rolleyes:
By the way. I heard Bas Leinders was with the team in France as well.....
;)
If you mean Chris i think your joking, we don't know yet the speed of Doornbos cause of his friday testjob, you can't compaire that with the racedrivers.
I am for sure that Chris is a more talented driver then RD and he will be faster.
RD is way to overrated!
[Edited on 9/7/2005 by MinardiSquad]
Or would you say that De La Rosa is much faster then Kimi Raikonnen?
We can jugde RD when is in the same position like Monteiro and Kartikeyan.
Get over it children, whatever happened to Marchy Lee?
MAybe our priceis too high.
Wouldnt we benefit more by having milage on our car??
[Edited on 9/7/2005 by Selespeed]
It's wise to give Pat some moretime to pay up, because we don't want to lose the sponsors.
If you dump him forsome other driver, we will most likely receive less cash!!!!
Because if there was a driver with more cash, he would have gotten the seat at the beginning of the season, right ?
Or would you say that De La Rosa is much faster then Kimi Raikonnen?
We can jugde RD when is in the same position like Monteiro and Kartikeyan. [/quote]
Err, I don't think you understand what I'm saying.
[Edited on 9/7/2005 by Selespeed] [/quote]
"We'll see, but looking back at the history of both guys, I recon Doornbos is faster"
Where did you get this facts??
The fact is that Albers is a mutiple winner and Champion.
He won the Dutch karting Champion,Formula Ford Dutch,Formula Ford Benelux, he won the German F3 championship with 6 wins and 10 poles.
F3000 was a bad year for him as you look at the result for some reasons, bad luck and in 2000 your where getting 30 minutes of practice time before qualify so it was hard for a young rookie like him.
DTM he was top and was the best touringcar driver of the world in 2003 with 4 wins in the season and second in the championship(vice Champion).
Doornbos did some vauxhall racing in GB and was in F3 in 2002 and 2003, he did not impress in F3 with a couple of podium but no wins and no top championship finishes, with some Financial backup he landed with Arden in 2004 F3000.
Liuzzi was his teammate and was the whole year most of the races 1 second faster in qualify and in the race the distant was most of the time 30 seconds.
Doornbos did drove a fantastic race in Spa and that was the reason for Eddie Jordan to get him to the Jordan Team.
He did some other podiums that year in F3000 but was not always constant with his preformance, he ended at the end on place 3rd (44 points) in the Championship but that was so hard if you look at the Arden team in 2004 (They dominated the series like Ferrari did in 2004).
Patrick ended that year on 5th in the championship with 33 points, but i think Patrick did a better job that year if you look at the team he was driving for if you compaired it with Arden, so why dump Patrick for Robert (ofcourse Patrick his problem is financial).
If you only compaire Chris his F3000 year with Robert his year you could say that Robert did better, if compair 2000 with 2004 Doornbos did even better then Alonso who scored 21 points in 2000, is that reasonable?
Albers is beating Friesacher who had a better F3000 time, but if you want to praise(or in the other way) a driver for 1 year.
its your choice, but i don't understand that you could say that a driver who have won more then 20 races in his official racing carreer and who won 4 championships has a more worse history then a driver who scored one win and no championships, maybe you can explain your way of looking to the facts to me?
But the history facts can't say who would be doing better in F1 ore when they get in the same team, i don't want to say that is would be a easy job but i really think Albers is the better driver and has more talent then Doornbos, but maybe Doornbos will suprise, at the moment you can't say nothing about his km in Formula 1 as a friday test driver, you can't compaire this with Monteiro or Kartikeyan, i know that Robert was dissapointed in the beginning of the season that he would not get a drive with less fuel with Jordan and in the first races Kartikeyan was most of the time faster then Robert, now it looks like Robert is doing a good job but if you look at yesterday it was a matter of less fuel run, the Dutch media is hyping his results but they must know better that you can't compair it with the racedrivers.
So people think that Robert is the men but he only can prove this as a racedriver at he must show this with Minardi if Patrick is sacked.
I wish him goodluck and i hope he will do a good job for us, but i expect that Albers would give him a wake up call:hehe:!!
Explain it to me!
Do you think there is a fair battle between the Racedriver and the Friday tester?
Ill give you some points:
Fridaytester:
- Looking for the wright tyre choice
-Doing mostly 60/70 laps on friday
-Having 4 sets of tyres
-At the end they do most of the time low fuel runs
-No pressure to finding the wright setup for quali and race in less then 40 laps on friday (at Minardi you will get 30 laps to find to wright setup for weekend on friday)
Racedriver:
- 40 laps on friday (30 with Minardi)
-1 a 2 sets of tires
-The pressure to get the wright setup for both qualify and race
-No low fuel runs, most of the time the fuel load is the fuel load they will use in qualify and race
You can't call this a fair competition and you can't say that Doornbos is outdriving Monteiro and Kartikeyan, we don't know yet the real pace of Doornbos!
In the beginning of the season he was dissapointed because Jordan would not let him do low fuel runs and Kartikeyan was at that moment most of the time faster then Doornbos, the last races he can do low fuel runs and it isn't strange that he is faster at the moment, he also has the new car who got 20% more downforce.
I don't want to say because of this that Doornbos is not doing a goodjob, he learns so much as Friday tester ands that good for him, but if you look at the dutch media who is hyping Doornbos because of the fact that he is faster on friday irritates me, whe have now for 3 year the Friday tester role in F1, after three years you must know what the job of the friday tester is and that you can't compair it with the other drivers, if you don't understand (like most of the dutch media do) your not taking the F1 fans seriously!!
Ciao
[Edited on 9/7/2005 by MinardiSquad]
delarosa better than raikkonen?;)