The Minardi PS04B was a Formula One race car used by Minardi Cosworth in the 2004 Formula One season and the first 3 rounds of the 2005 Formula One season .
13-629: In 2003 all of the Arrows A23 chassis and the full Arrows Grand Prix International intellectual property rights were bought by Minardi. The Arrows A23 was renamed the Minardi PS04 and in back-to-back tests it was found superior to the Minardi's PS03. Minardi however decided that they could not run a "pure-Arrows" and hence used the Arrows intellectual property, which included the new designs for
26-768: A proposed Arrows A24 and the best elements from the PS03 and the Arrows A23/PS04 to develop the Minardi PS04B for the 2004 season. Period reports even hinted that the PS04B was possibly based more closely on the Arrows A23 than Minardi might have been prepared to publicly admit. The PS04B was driven by rookie Gianmaria Bruni , and Zsolt Baumgartner who had moved from Jordan . The team managed to earn their first point in two years, after Baumgartner finished 8th at
39-516: A result. Most of the testing and set up work was done by Verstappen before he was abruptly replaced by Frentzen. Driven by Frentzen and Enrique Bernoldi , the car scored only two championship points. Both cars were disqualified at the opening race. Bernoldi grabbed headlines for taking the fight to Michael Schumacher in Malaysia, proving the A23's competitiveness. While the car had pace, reliability
52-461: Is possible that Orange were due to terminate their sponsorship around the same time anyway due to making huge financial losses. Following the demise of Arrows, the A23 chassis and intellectual property rights to them were bought by Paul Stoddart , then the head of the Minardi team, as a potential replacement for his own team's PS03 chassis. The chassis was renamed the Minardi PS04, although it
65-475: The British Grand Prix , the team ran with no sponsors, replacing them with the words "John Boy" in honor to Sporting Director John Walton , who died from a heart attack. At the 2005 Australian Grand Prix , the team celebrated 10 years of Melbourne holding a race at Albert Park; the logo was presented on the engine cover. ( key ) (results in bold indicate pole position) * All points scored with
78-547: The French Grand Prix saw both drivers deliberately fail to qualify as the team cut back on engine mileage and repair. On-board data acquisition showed the car to be quick in the first two sectors but noticeably slower in the third and final sector. The team's last actual entry was the following at the 2002 German Grand Prix at a new for 2002 heavily revised and shortened version of the Hockenheimring . It
91-558: The LXXXVIII Mobil 1 Grand Prix de France ) was a Formula One motor race held at Magny-Cours on 21 July 2002. It was the eleventh race of the 2002 Formula One World Championship , last race on the original layout and the race in which Michael Schumacher secured his fifth World Drivers' Championship title, equalling Juan Manuel Fangio 's record set over 40 years before. McLaren - Mercedes drivers Kimi Räikkönen and David Coulthard finished second and third respectively. In
104-490: The United States Grand Prix . For 2005 , Minardi used a PS04B chassis for the first three races of the season before they made a new PS05 chassis due to assembly problems. The engine name changed from CR-3L to CK2004, but it was basically the same engine. The team's black and white livery saw the addition of Superfund 's deep green to the engine covers. The following season, it was removed. During
117-568: The PS05. This Formula One –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Arrows A23 The Arrows A23 is a Formula One racing car, used by the Arrows team during the 2002 Formula One season . It was designed by Mike Coughlan , Sergio Rinland and Nicolò Petrucci with engines supplied by Jaguar-works Cosworth customer rather than the Asiatech unit used in
130-452: The previous year's Arrows A22 . The car was completely designed around Jos Verstappen , who had a contract to race for the 2002 season. However, due to financial problems the team replaced him with Heinz-Harald Frentzen on a race by race deal because he could bring more sponsorship money. Rinland designed the car around the twin keel concept he had perfected at Sauber . The A23 was introduced late and had very little pre season testing as
143-438: Was again its achilles heel although Frentzen felt that the car had good potential however. Mounting debts and legal issues forced the team to pull out of Formula One following the 2002 German Grand Prix . Craig Pollock , who had just been ousted from BAR offered to buy the team, but terms could not be reached. Arrows and by extension TWR were declared insolvent shortly afterwards and folded. The team's penultimate entry at
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#1732801517530156-537: Was called the Minardi PS04B . Four years later, in 2006, the new Super Aguri F1 team bought remaining unmodified A23 cars and from Minardi. Super Aguri ran them, with some minor modifications, as the Super Aguri SA05 during the first half of the 2006 Formula One season . ( key ) (results in bold indicate pole position) 2002 French Grand Prix The 2002 French Grand Prix (formally
169-486: Was largely unchanged from its condition as raced in the 2002 season. A comparison test next to the Minardi PS03 proved it to have similar performance to the PS03, but possibly more potential. However Minardi was worried about the negative PR from running a "pure-Arrows" and the decision was made to modify the PS03 using Arrows intellectual property and elements from the Arrows A23 for the 2004 season. The resulting car
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