MINARDI celebrates 40 years of its F1 debut and celebrates it in a big way in Icola
Miguel Ángel Guerra, Luciano and Tulio Crespi talked with AM850.com from the path Enzo and Dino Ferrari about the Minardi Day, which will be attended by the car that represented the McLaren of Ayrton Senna in the Netflix series.
Giancarlo Minardi founded his competition team in 1980, based on Faenza, his hometown, and had its premiere in Formula 2. In 1985 he hit the jump and got into the world of Formula 1, With debut in the GP of Brazil, in the missing circuit of Jacarepaguá, with a single car and Pierluigi Martini as a pilot. The Italian Team It was a fixed World Cup for 20 years, Until at the end of the 2005 season it marked the end of the trip. Red Bull bought the Italian team and renamed it as Toro Rosso, then it was Alpha Tauri and today is Racing Bulls. TAnta Historia could not stay aside and Minardi devised the Minardi Day, which had its first edition in 2016. This weekend, in Isola, the ninth meeting will take place, which was only interrupted by COVID-19 in 2020.
The event goes far beyond simply the tour of the history of Minardi. Of course, in the 2025 edition it will have the added value of the 40 years of the premiere in F1 of the Faenza Team, but in each edition the amount of historical cars that are shown and that turn on the track grow. F1, F2, F3, GP2, GP3, Formula 3000, prototypes, GT, supercars … All are part of the celebration. And this year he will have a special guest, just in Icola: the recreation of the McLaren MP4/5 that Ayrton Senna used in 1990 and that was used in the Netflix series that showed the life of the Brazilian.
The car that was seen in the filming was designed in Argentina, with a crespi chassis of the Tulio Crespi family as a base. Tulio and his son Luciano spoke with AM850.com from Icola. “Having reached this circuit generates chills. This car was in Italy because a Senna collector bought it,” Tulio said. “It is a crepi that represents the McLaren 1990 of Senna. It is as it was used at the time of filming, with the same engine and aerodynamics. The car will make an exhibition on the weekend with the entire staff of cars that are here. ”
The copy of the McLaren was acquired from the Argentine family by Salvatore Apicella, owner of the Legends Museum that is in Pavia, in the Italian region of Lombardy. There, in addition to Senna’s memories, there is Diego Maradona’s corner and the Marco Simoncelli room.
Miguel Ángel Guerra, renowned Argentine pilot who played an F1 race, is also a fixed in each edition of the Minardi Day. “This was born as an idea of Giancarlo and its people, but it was so successful that Ferrari bought it for the second year. Every year many cars come, in 2024 we spent 500. And current and historical pilots of F1 come, ”he said.
This weekend, the exclusive of TC 2000 It will go up to March 751 with which Vittorio Brambilla won the 1975 Austrian GP. The Italian, who died in May 2001, was so happy to cross the goal in Osterrreichrin that he raised both arms and … crashed.
The March has Ford Cosworth V8 engine, with a small steering wheel. Luciano Crespi, during the dialogue with AM850.com, asked war if the size would be for rapid corrections before a tail round: “It can be, I am not going to do that kind of corrections, Ja,” Ja, Ja, joked, who will also take a few laps in the Minardi F1 that Martini used.
Fernando Alonso, Gastón Mazzacane, Esteban Tuero, Jarno Trulli and Giancarlo Fisichella are some of the 36 pilots who passed through Faenza’s team. MINARDI celebrates his 40 years and will be the great excuse for a motoring party.
