Based: Faenza, Italy
Formula One record: starts 254, poles 0, wins 0
First GP entered (as Minardi): Brazil 1985
Drivers in 2000: Marc Gene (Spain), Gaston Mazzacane
(Argentina). Both have since left the team.


Team history:
1979 - Team founded by Giancarlo Minardi.
1985 - Formula One debut with Italian Pierluigi Martini.
1989 - First points (fifth and sixth in Britain).
1991 - Ferrari engines take team to best season, finishing
seventh with six points.
1992 - Powered by Lamborghini engines.
1994 - Team enters into alliance with Scuderia Italia.
1996 - Flavio Briatore and Gabriele Rumi, who owned the
former Fondmetal team, acquire majority stake in team.
1997 - Briatore sells shares to Rumi and leaves company.
1998 - Austrian designer Gustav Brunner, who designed the
car in 1993, returns to Minardi.
1999 - Cesare Fiorio arrives as team manager
2000 - August - sporting director Cesare Fiorio leaves
September - chairman Gabriele Rum says he sold 70 percent
stake to Pan American Sports Network International TV company.
2001 - January 20 - bought by Stoddart


Season by season (standing, points, drivers):
1985 - no points (Pierluigi Martini/Piercarlo Ghinzani)
1986 - no points (Alessandro Nannini/Andrea De Cesaris)
1987 - no points (Nannini/Adrian Campos)
1988 - 10th, one point (Campos/Luis Perez Sala/Martini)
1989 - 10th equal, six (Martini/Perez Sala)
1990 - no points (Martini/Paolo Barilla/Gianni Morbidelli)
1991 - seventh, six (Martini/Morbidelli/Roberto Moreno)
1992 - 11th equal, one (Morbidelli/Christian
Fittipaldi/Alessandro Zanardi)
1993 - eighth, seven (Fittipaldi/Fabrizio
Barbazza/Martini/Jean-Marc Gounon)
1994 - 10th, five (Martini/Michele Alboreto)
1995 - 10th, one (Martini/Luca Badoer/Pedro Lamy)
1996 - no points (Lamy/Giancarlo Fisichella/Tarso
Marques/Giovanni Lavaggi)
1997 - no points (Jarno Trulli/Ukyo Katayama/Marques)
1998 - no points (Shinji Nakano/Esteban Tuero)
1999 - one point (Marc Gene/Luca Badoer/Stephane Sarrazin)
2000 - no points (Gene/Gaston Mazzacane)