man, i've been following F1 since '98 and this brings tears to my eyes, cuz even as a Tifosi and Michael Schumacher fan, Minardi will still be the team that despite being backmarkers, always managed to stay afloat and always beat the odds whilst introducing drivers such as Mark Webber, Fernando Alonso to the world of F1. Such underdog charm is a lost art in modern F1. Maybe Haas might prove me wrong, but right now Minardi will still be Minardi to me.
becuz Haas entered as independent team in F1 with 10 year plan in 2016 and Toro Rosso is just a affiliate team to Red Bull, so that doesn't count to me
Such high quality, interesting, informative, and unique videos. A pleasure to watch and a breath of fresh air. Thank you so much for making these videos
Minardi was one of the rare team where they could stay afloat in F1 and have some loyal fans despite never even close to being competitive after 1991 (and that time when Jos Verstappen set a fastest lap in 2003). How could that happened?
The were the ultimate "small" team really. A team that touted small sponsors and ran with small-time engine partners. '93 and '94 were still pretty good years for Minardi.
@@yannick245 Smallest budget out of all the teams by far. They were known by every other garage on the grid as having well-designed car for their budget and low position recognised as a result of a lack of funds. Also have a massive following of fans. Like I say they were pure racing.
Loved the lion logos as a kid. And after all those years, it's really amazing performances every time Minardi got a points finish when only top 6 got points. Look at that now and Renault is even struggling for those positions. They were backmarkers without being a laughing stock. Trying their best with dignity. Glad there's still people paying tribute to that.
On that previous comment, i might get flacked for saying that "Such underdog charm is a lost art in modern F1" and probably get pointed towards Virgin/Marussia/Manor saga, but tbh aside from that miracle performance by the late Jules Bianchi, that team didn't show any premise and was just a result of ownership hot potato. Imho.
Minardi M02 had problem though: too easy to mistake for Jordan, especially for more casual observers. But other than that i really love it. And especially tiny team like Minardi that barely had enough money to paint their cars, being recognizable is important. They needed every marketing trick imaginable because they needed every last penny.
I miss Minardi remember seeing them first on a 1994 season review vhs my dad gave me as a kid, with the blue and orange. Remember the last season in 2005, a great team who I miss a lot. Thank you for the memories
@Starscream_xxx Yes but it's not Minardi, it's now Red Bull financed Toro Rosso. When the name changes then it means that team doesn't exist anymore. Minardi died out in 2005. How hard is it to understand? They are two completely different entities. Only a moron would think that Minardi is Toro Rosso.
@Starscream_xxx Toro Rosso is NOT Minardi. You can go ask Giancarlo Minardi if he thinks Toro Rosso is still his old team, he would laugh at your stupid face. The only thing that Minardi and Toro Rosso have in common is the factory which Red Bull bought. But the Minardi team is long dead, that's a fact. You delusional moron can say whatever you want but we all know that it's not true.
If it makes things easier for some: Red Bull are the title sponsors of the old Minardi team. Just like how Manor was named differently based on their sponsors (Virgin or Marussia).
@@bfapple There is no Minardi team. Only Toro Rosso. Minardi died out in 2005 and a new team named Toro Rosso came in 2006. Buying an old team and renaming it does not mean that you are buying the old teams history and achievements. As soon as the team's name changes then that old team doesn't exist anymore. If Red Bull had bought Minardi and kept the Minardi name and branding then we could have a discussion but Toro Rosso is NOT Minardi. How hard is it to understand that for you people?!
Toyota's budget from just handful of seasons was propably as large as Minardis all budgets ever combined. Yet, Minardi stayed longer in sport than Toyota. I hope Minardi makes a comeback. I cheer far more when Minardi gets 4th than when Ferrari or any of the others win (unless winner is minor team like Minardi)
During one season, Toyota had a 400 million dollar budget, with Trulli and Ralf Schumacher as pilots, followed by Ferrari with 250 million. I think the Toyota budget covers every Minardi season... Toyota's budget in the mid 2000's was insane! I always bought an F1 magazine/hand book before the season, were all the teams, drivers, new rules etc. were presented. They also covered the estimated budget of each team. Where did all the money go? They never were competing for the title. Jarno hardly reached the podium sometimes. F1 really works/worked different than football...
@@yannick245 They wasted huge amount of money because they had to create entirely new team from scratch. Toyota's story became example to others, and these days everyone prefers to buy existing team and just remake it. Even worst teams still have lot of expertise and infrastructure that is necessary to run F1 team. Another reason is that at first they did not bring F1 experts in the team, prefering to mostly run it in-house. In fact they even changed Mika Salo's Finnish race engineer because they did not like them speaking Finnish with each other. Which is insanely stupid, not only its easier to get messages across in native language, communication and trust between race engineer and driver is extremely important. Everyone can order a meal in English, but when driver says car feels "funny", its way easier to ask for explanation in their native language. Maybe if Toyota would have actually spent the money on getting all the best talents, maybe then F1 would work more like football.
According to the book "FORZA MINARDI!" by Simon Vigar, Minardi actually used a very dark BLUE (Midnight Blue) and NOT BLACK together with yellow and occasionally white. But even for me as a Minardi Fan it's sometimes really hard to see the difference. Proof is the original logo.
@@f1liveryhistories290 No Problem. I have also seen almost all Minardi Chassis in real at the "Historic Minardi Days" in 2016 and 17, in real you would notice that's a blue tone on the early ones. Cameras back than had problems with certain colors and light I guess. I remember something similar with the original orange color used by Spyker in 2007, they changed it later that season.
Great stuff. I wished you had mentioned during the bright yellow Telefonica years that Gaston Mazzacane (sorry for spelling) lead a handful of laps at the inaugural US Grand Prix at Indy while teams were switching from the wets to dry tires.
1995-96 Minardi liveries are among my all-time favorites of all F1 liveries. (But those panels are dark blue metallic, not black as narrator said on the video.)
My favourite F1 team. For me, they are CHAMPIONS. Their never-give-up DNA still lives within their successors: Scuderia Torro Rosso and Scuderia Alpha Tauri, who finally bought Minardi it's F1 victories. God bless Minardi/TorroRosso/AlphaTauri!
While I don't remember much from the F1 seasons in the 90s and early 2000s (because I was too young), Minardi was and will be the likeable underdog team for me. Such a great team, with a dedicated fanbase. Incredible story for this little F1 team.
Red Bull should have kept the original name of the team. If their owner had any class which he doesn't he would have sticked with Minardi for the development team.
Minardi team that ran up against giants for over 20 years on budget that'd get top tier teams contract with elite drivers. Minardi is my favorite team, they fought like lions for so long, they deserved better final season at least, one huzzah for crazy italians would have been beautifull. Best quali was 2nd position in Phoenix in like 92 or 93, never seen podium. its shame something this mad was inspiring to see.
Amazing job, your videos are sensacionals. Greetings from Brazil, keep doing this extraordinary job. Is good to see people working on really good content not only the viral ones
Whoo that '94 livery is a thing of beauty. I love that they survived for so long in the cut-throat world of F1 for so long even if I believe their slow death began with Flavio Briatore nicking the Mugen-Honda engines. I might have to look at this video again because they sure knew how to put out an attractive looking car (if certainly not the fastest).
One of the Netherlands biggest supermarket group colours ar bassed of the yellow And black from Minardi. Still "Jumbo racing" team has the same collour. The owner has a massive collection of minardi cars.
Forza Italia e Minardi... because survivall is more than most other teams managed. 94 is my favourite the orange blue green one in particullar. But my most vivid memorie are of the silver fondmetal and offcourse KL / Euopean Aviation ones.
I enjoy going a step further and reading more about the sponsors. Does anyone know what Cimarron and Central Park were? I can't find anything on those.
Awensome video man, i love that format and is obvious that you put much effort in it :D If you want i can make you a logo, a banner, what you want. I noticed that you don't have a graphic and i would be honored to make it :)
Might be worth pointing out that the huge loss in sponsors for 2005 was because of the “John Boy” tribute livery, apparently Wilux and the other sponsors were furious that they hadn’t been consulted first.
Finally Minardi was two GP win after is rebranded by Red Bull and learn a F1 at many good driver Alonso, Webber, Martini, Trulli, Vettel a Verstappen familly...
Hey man, I have a question. Could I maybe re-narrate this video in Polish? Polish interest in F1 has been reignited since Kubica returned to the sport, so I think it could help expand your channel further.
Yes, absolutely. I would be happy to send you the original script & produce a Polish language version of this video. Feel free to contact me at f1liveryhistories@gmail.com
It's interesting but you sometimes focus too much on the brands advertised in lieu of drivers names, positions , victories and glory which is what F1 is supposed to be about
man, i've been following F1 since '98 and this brings tears to my eyes, cuz even as a Tifosi and Michael Schumacher fan, Minardi will still be the team that despite being backmarkers, always managed to stay afloat and always beat the odds whilst introducing drivers such as Mark Webber, Fernando Alonso to the world of F1. Such underdog charm is a lost art in modern F1. Maybe Haas might prove me wrong, but right now Minardi will still be Minardi to me.
becuz Haas entered as independent team in F1 with 10 year plan in 2016 and Toro Rosso is just a affiliate team to Red Bull, so that doesn't count to me
This channel is so underrated for the amount of effort you put in to each video you really deserve more subscribers
Thanks mate I really appreciate the positivity. If there's anything you can do to help promote the channel I would be very grateful.
F1 Livery Histories I'll see what I can do!
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Such high quality, interesting, informative, and unique videos. A pleasure to watch and a breath of fresh air. Thank you so much for making these videos
Minardi was one of the rare team where they could stay afloat in F1 and have some loyal fans despite never even close to being competitive after 1991 (and that time when Jos Verstappen set a fastest lap in 2003).
How could that happened?
The were the ultimate "small" team really. A team that touted small sponsors and ran with small-time engine partners. '93 and '94 were still pretty good years for Minardi.
I've always thought they were a tax dodge. But I I've also been a long time fan =)
Because they never raced for wins, podiums, points, or the corporate business. They raced for one reason, just to compete. That’s pure racing.
@@megadave1197 Yup! I started watching F1 in 2002. You could always be sure that the last two places were reserved for Minardi.
@@yannick245 Smallest budget out of all the teams by far. They were known by every other garage on the grid as having well-designed car for their budget and low position recognised as a result of a lack of funds. Also have a massive following of fans. Like I say they were pure racing.
Loved the lion logos as a kid. And after all those years, it's really amazing performances every time Minardi got a points finish when only top 6 got points. Look at that now and Renault is even struggling for those positions. They were backmarkers without being a laughing stock. Trying their best with dignity. Glad there's still people paying tribute to that.
And for me, Minardi M02 would be my favorite Minardi livery due to standing out in fluorescent yellow.
Love that livery. Although I personally prefer the yellow & black.
fair nuff.
On that previous comment, i might get flacked for saying that "Such underdog charm is a lost art in modern F1" and probably get pointed towards Virgin/Marussia/Manor saga, but tbh aside from that miracle performance by the late Jules Bianchi, that team didn't show any premise and was just a result of ownership hot potato. Imho.
Yeah, Minardi had much more fight than those other teams.
Minardi M02 had problem though: too easy to mistake for Jordan, especially for more casual observers. But other than that i really love it.
And especially tiny team like Minardi that barely had enough money to paint their cars, being recognizable is important. They needed every marketing trick imaginable because they needed every last penny.
I miss Minardi remember seeing them first on a 1994 season review vhs my dad gave me as a kid, with the blue and orange. Remember the last season in 2005, a great team who I miss a lot. Thank you for the memories
Out of all the teams that have died off I think I miss Minardi the most.
@Starscream_xxx No they're not. Minardi is NOT Toro Rosso lol. Two completely different teams.
@Starscream_xxx Yes but it's not Minardi, it's now Red Bull financed Toro Rosso. When the name changes then it means that team doesn't exist anymore. Minardi died out in 2005. How hard is it to understand? They are two completely different entities. Only a moron would think that Minardi is Toro Rosso.
@Starscream_xxx Toro Rosso is NOT Minardi. You can go ask Giancarlo Minardi if he thinks Toro Rosso is still his old team, he would laugh at your stupid face. The only thing that Minardi and Toro Rosso have in common is the factory which Red Bull bought. But the Minardi team is long dead, that's a fact. You delusional moron can say whatever you want but we all know that it's not true.
If it makes things easier for some: Red Bull are the title sponsors of the old Minardi team. Just like how Manor was named differently based on their sponsors (Virgin or Marussia).
@@bfapple There is no Minardi team. Only Toro Rosso. Minardi died out in 2005 and a new team named Toro Rosso came in 2006. Buying an old team and renaming it does not mean that you are buying the old teams history and achievements. As soon as the team's name changes then that old team doesn't exist anymore. If Red Bull had bought Minardi and kept the Minardi name and branding then we could have a discussion but Toro Rosso is NOT Minardi. How hard is it to understand that for you people?!
I loved Minardi. It was a nice and sympatic team.
Respect to minardi, F1 fans all have a little love in there hearts for this determined team
Toyota's budget from just handful of seasons was propably as large as Minardis all budgets ever combined. Yet, Minardi stayed longer in sport than Toyota.
I hope Minardi makes a comeback. I cheer far more when Minardi gets 4th than when Ferrari or any of the others win (unless winner is minor team like Minardi)
@The MandalorianNow AlphaTauri
@@samuelzackrisson8865 Yeah. But the colors. I just want for one race the Minardi colors. :(
During one season, Toyota had a 400 million dollar budget, with Trulli and Ralf Schumacher as pilots, followed by Ferrari with 250 million. I think the Toyota budget covers every Minardi season...
Toyota's budget in the mid 2000's was insane! I always bought an F1 magazine/hand book before the season, were all the teams, drivers, new rules etc. were presented. They also covered the estimated budget of each team. Where did all the money go? They never were competing for the title. Jarno hardly reached the podium sometimes.
F1 really works/worked different than football...
@@yannick245 They wasted huge amount of money because they had to create entirely new team from scratch. Toyota's story became example to others, and these days everyone prefers to buy existing team and just remake it. Even worst teams still have lot of expertise and infrastructure that is necessary to run F1 team.
Another reason is that at first they did not bring F1 experts in the team, prefering to mostly run it in-house. In fact they even changed Mika Salo's Finnish race engineer because they did not like them speaking Finnish with each other. Which is insanely stupid, not only its easier to get messages across in native language, communication and trust between race engineer and driver is extremely important. Everyone can order a meal in English, but when driver says car feels "funny", its way easier to ask for explanation in their native language.
Maybe if Toyota would have actually spent the money on getting all the best talents, maybe then F1 would work more like football.
😮😮😮😮 a vitória de uma equipe pequena e de garagem sempre terá outro sabor. Infelizmente estás equipes estão morrendo. Também morre o romântismo da f1
Italian singer Eros Ramazotti used to have his new album EROS written on the rear wing in certain races of 2004.
Just discovered your channel. Excellently researched and well made videos. Hope there's plenty more in the future!
That Minardi M01 was a beaut!
Thanks mate, I really appreciate that.
According to the book "FORZA MINARDI!" by Simon Vigar, Minardi actually used a very dark BLUE (Midnight Blue) and NOT BLACK together with yellow and occasionally white. But even for me as a Minardi Fan it's sometimes really hard to see the difference. Proof is the original logo.
Thanks mate. It is very hard to tell isn't it.
@@f1liveryhistories290 No Problem. I have also seen almost all Minardi Chassis in real at the "Historic Minardi Days" in 2016 and 17, in real you would notice that's a blue tone on the early ones. Cameras back than had problems with certain colors and light I guess. I remember something similar with the original orange color used by Spyker in 2007, they changed it later that season.
Great channel , cannot understand why anyone would dislike informative videos like this.
Thanks Iain. Your comments have been equally as informative.
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Great stuff. I wished you had mentioned during the bright yellow Telefonica years that Gaston Mazzacane (sorry for spelling) lead a handful of laps at the inaugural US Grand Prix at Indy while teams were switching from the wets to dry tires.
Thanks mate. You're right, I should have given that a mention.
1995-96 Minardi liveries are among my all-time favorites of all F1 liveries. (But those panels are dark blue metallic, not black as narrator said on the video.)
Can you really tell with that grainy standard definition footage?
My favourite F1 team. For me, they are CHAMPIONS. Their never-give-up DNA still lives within their successors: Scuderia Torro Rosso and Scuderia Alpha Tauri, who finally bought Minardi it's F1 victories. God bless Minardi/TorroRosso/AlphaTauri!
While I don't remember much from the F1 seasons in the 90s and early 2000s (because I was too young), Minardi was and will be the likeable underdog team for me. Such a great team, with a dedicated fanbase.
Incredible story for this little F1 team.
Minardi is now Toro Rosso, which had a victory in 2008 (I think that was Vettel in Monza). EDIT: It is now known as AlphaTauri!
Ukog Nos Toro Rosso is not Minardi. Minardi team died in 2005 and Toro Rosso is a completely different team.
Racing Red Toro Rosso took over the assets and the entry for Minardi. One of the conditions of the sale was that the team would stay based in Faenza.
@@bfapple Yes Toro Rosso is based in Faenza but that does NOT mean it's somehow magically still Minardi lol.
They are considered midfield team now
Red Bull should have kept the original name of the team. If their owner had any class which he doesn't he would have sticked with Minardi for the development team.
M198 silver and blue is a beauty
Minardi for me....never die !!
@SilverArrow_xxx Completely different team
Great video as per usual. Beautifully constructed.
Thanks for your ongoing support mate.
Minardi team that ran up against giants for over 20 years on budget that'd get top tier teams contract with elite drivers.
Minardi is my favorite team, they fought like lions for so long, they deserved better final season at least, one huzzah for crazy italians would have been beautifull.
Best quali was 2nd position in Phoenix in like 92 or 93, never seen podium. its shame something this mad was inspiring to see.
Pure racing. Forza Minardi
I saw a link to this video on Racedepartment - and I'm very glad that I clicked it. Unique and very interesting channel. Can't wait for more videos.
Thanks mate!
The 2000 Telefonica Minardi livery remains one of my favorites of all time
For some reason didn't saw this video last month and only found it today :D In any case, great video and great channel, hope you keep growing.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the kind words.
The black/yellow/white is right up my alley, but man that telefonica scheme is somethin else
Thank you for the history lesson. I am new to f1 and love it
Thanks for your support mate.
Amazing job, your videos are sensacionals. Greetings from Brazil, keep doing this extraordinary job. Is good to see people working on really good content not only the viral ones
Thanks you Sir. Hope you continue to enjoy the videos as they come.
I love Minardi. :) The 1995 Minardi Mugen Honda would have been a rocket :(
It certainly would have been. It's really too bad they got bullied out of that engine deal by Briatore/Ligier.
@@f1liveryhistories290 yes. It would have been Minardi's big break.
Somehow that deep blue color by Minardi is still carried by AlphaTauri.
Whoo that '94 livery is a thing of beauty. I love that they survived for so long in the cut-throat world of F1 for so long even if I believe their slow death began with Flavio Briatore nicking the Mugen-Honda engines. I might have to look at this video again because they sure knew how to put out an attractive looking car (if certainly not the fastest).
I just subscribed. Your videos are awesome.
Thanks mate. Lots of teams left to go!
Minardi should have had more money, it's a shame the young talents never got a somewhat competitive car for their first years in F1
One of the Netherlands biggest supermarket group colours ar bassed of the yellow And black from Minardi. Still "Jumbo racing" team has the same collour. The owner has a massive collection of minardi cars.
Minardi forever.
I like this team, because that's the team which gave a drive for Zsolt Baumgartner in 2004, he was a first hungarian driver
For M191/92 and M195/96 you called out black where I believe they used various dark blues.
Forza Italia e Minardi... because survivall is more than most other teams managed.
94 is my favourite the orange blue green one in particullar. But my most vivid memorie are of the silver fondmetal and offcourse KL / Euopean Aviation ones.
I loved Minardi.
I wish somehow Ferrari would have used Minardi as a B Team and supply their engines for longer than 1 season.
I enjoy going a step further and reading more about the sponsors. Does anyone know what Cimarron and Central Park were? I can't find anything on those.
I really like their black, white & green livery.
Another great video. How about sauber?
In the works ;-)
The 1993 livery is my favorite
Would be cool if Alfa Tauri would do a throwback car or two, like the 80's black and yellow
Awensome video man, i love that format and is obvious that you put much effort in it :D
If you want i can make you a logo, a banner, what you want. I noticed that you don't have a graphic and i would be honored to make it :)
Thanks man. Sure, I'd be happy for you to make graphics for the channel. My email address is f1liveryhistories@gmail.com
Sent to the email :D
the ps04b looks like the arrows a23
For me the 1995 was my favourite
Minardi was Australian from 2001 to 2005.
Great
Might be worth pointing out that the huge loss in sponsors for 2005 was because of the “John Boy” tribute livery, apparently Wilux and the other sponsors were furious that they hadn’t been consulted first.
Yep, that's right. That was a big hit Minardi didn't need.
M193 is my favorite Minardi car.😎
If it's not rude, what is the song at the final part of the video?
The best
Minardi 🇮🇹
Flavio Briatore Co-owned the team as well in 1997
What does livery means? Something about the liver? In portuguese is fígado, that organ who filter the álcool out of our body
Bring back minardi🙂
95-96 colour is dark blue, not black...
why so many people love minardi? well im not fans of minardi but not underestimate it either. I Respect this team
Formula 1 team in Italy familiar to Japan
My friends gran dad owned the team
Giancarlo Minardi
*grandad
Finally Minardi was two GP win after is rebranded by Red Bull and learn a F1 at many good driver Alonso, Webber, Martini, Trulli, Vettel a Verstappen familly...
Just wanted to add that the reason Fondmetal withdrew from Minardi was because Gabriele Rumi died in May 2001, so sold his shares to PSN.
That's true. His health was failing him during 2000.
Alonso 's Minardi
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Hey man, I have a question. Could I maybe re-narrate this video in Polish? Polish interest in F1 has been reignited since Kubica returned to the sport, so I think it could help expand your channel further.
Yes, absolutely. I would be happy to send you the original script & produce a Polish language version of this video. Feel free to contact me at f1liveryhistories@gmail.com
@@f1liveryhistories290 Will do mate.
Amo la F1 y los documentales serios pero no spike english...
Estos videos están subtitulados. Intenta usar subtítulos!
Tuero
wasn t there also a black minardi sponsored by orange !?! this telephone company or o tel o or something
That was the Arrows team not Minardi, close but no cigar mate.
@@SuperG3X dang it ... but cigarette ? ^^
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someone made a good looking mock ups of retro f1 liveries on 2013 f1 cars, my word they look rly good: cdebdesign.blogspot.com/?view=flipcard
Greatly missed. F1 now just isn't that exciting any more....
Pls do McLaren
It's interesting but you sometimes focus too much on the brands advertised in lieu of drivers names, positions , victories and glory which is what F1 is supposed to be about
That is because those things are *NOT* what he want to highlights. He talks about *LIVERY* not team profile. Get it?