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Minardi: Giancarlo Minardi
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The team signed up Giancarlo Fisichella to partner Lamy in 1996 but money ran short again and at the end of the year Minardi was forced to sell the majority of the team to a new consortium, which bought 70%. Minardi retained 14.5% and the Scuderia Italia investors (Emilio Gnutti, Giuseppe Lucchini and Vittorio Palazzani) held on to 14.5% while a fourth Defendente Marniga retained one percent. The new consortium was controlled by Briatore but included Fondmetal's Gabriele Rumi and former driver Sandro Nannini. Fisichella was sold to Jordan, Jarno Trulli signed for the 1997 season and Ukyo Katayama was hired to bring in some more money and a deal struck to use Hart V8 engines.
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The Minardi team first competed under that name in the 1980 European Formula Two championship. Rather than using a customer chassis, the team commissioned a BMW powered design from Giacomo Caliri's FLY studios — previously responsible for the Fittipaldi Automotive team's F5A Formula One car.[2] Giancarlo led the Minardi team to four moderately successful Formula Two seasons with a variety of young Italian and South American drivers, including Alessandro Nannini and Johnny Cecotto. The team's most notable result being a 1981 win at the Misano round by Michele Alboreto.[1] Minardi left the lower division at the end of 1984, although in 1986 a modified version of their final Formula Two car, the 283, was entered without success in two rounds of the Formula 3000 championship which had replaced Formula Two in 1985.[3]
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Even with only one point in four years — obtained by Gene at the European Grand Prix last September — Minardi is highly respected in the paddock. And the team has always been a good school for drivers, launching the careers of Elio de Angelis, Michele Alboreto, Alessandro Nannini, Christian Fittipaldi, Giancarlo Fisichella and Jarno Trulli.
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[I]t has ever been ... at Minardi, which has proved a stepping stone to fame for many drivers. Jarno Trulli, who moved from Prost to Jordan this year, is a former team member, as is Italian Giancarlo Fisichella, who now drives for Benetton.
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Após tantas lutas, a Minardi se viu, novamente, no fundo do grid. Pierluigi Martini, aos 34 anos, estava fora de ritmo, e Giancarlo Minardi o substituiu pelo português Pedro Lamy, e o lusitano salvou a pátria na Austrália, com um sexto lugar, ficando à frente de Martini e de Luca Badoer.
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