Minardi PS05

Minardi PS05

Christijan Albers at the 2005 Canadian Grand Prix in a Minardi PS05
Constructor:	Italy
Designer:	Gabriele Tredozi (technical director) Sandro Parini (design) Andrea Rocchetto (aerodynamics)
Predecessor:	Minardi PS04B
Technical specifications
Chassis:	Composite monocoque with carbon fiber reinforced plastic and aluminum honeycomb
Engine:	Cosworth TJ2005
Length:	4548 mm
Width:	1800 mm
Wheelbase:	3097 mm
Weight:	605 kg
Tires:	Bridgestone
Petrol:	Eleven Aquitaine
statistics
Driver:	20th Patrick Friesacher 20th Robert Doornbos 21st Christijan Albers
First start:	2005 San Marino Grand Prix
Last start:	2005 China Grand Prix
Starts Victories Poles SR 16 - - -
World Cup points:	7th
Podiums:	-
Leadership laps:	- over 0 km
Status: end of season 2005

The Minardi PS05 was the racing car of the Italian Formula 1 team Minardi for the 2005 season . Since he was not ready in time for the start of the season, he was only used in the fourth race in San Marino . At the end of the season, Red Bull bought the Minardi team, so the Minardi PS05 remained the team's last Formula 1 car.

driver

Patrick Friesacher at the Grand Prix of Great Britain 2005

Minardi started the season with drivers Patrick Friesacher and Christijan Albers . Both had brought sponsors into the team ( Paydriver ). The Austrian Friesacher received financial support from the Austrian state of Carinthia ; This promotion came with the help of the controversial right-wing populist Freedom Party - Provincial Governor Joerg Haider concluded. Originally Nicolas Kiesa was supposed to drive, who had already driven a few races for Minardi in 2003; However, due to a lack of sponsorship money, it was replaced by the Friesacher originally intended as a test driver. Christijan Albers switched from the DTM , where he had been successful in the HWA - Mercedes (runner-up in 2003 and third in 2004 ), to Formula 1. In addition, he had already completed test drives for Minardi's Formula 1 team in 2001 and 2002.

Friesacher had to give up his seat after the British Grand Prix because some sponsors did not pay. He was replaced by the Dutchman Robert Doornbos , who was previously active as a Friday test driver at the Jordan Grand Prix .

Chanoch Nissany and Enrico Toccacelo were registered as the official Friday test drivers . Other test drivers were Juan Cáceres and Roldán Rodríguez . Even Katherine Legge completed in November 2005, a test with the team.

technology

Detailed view of the elaborately constructed front wing

The rear of the PS05: The air outlet chimneys (so-called chimneys ) on the side pods are clearly visible ; behind it is the tailpipe

Sound recording of the Cosworth TJ2005 engine of the Red Bull RB1 ; Minardi used the same engine

The PS05 was completely new and was developed by Gabriele Tredozi (technical director), Sandro Parini (design) and Andrea Rocchetto (aerodynamics) in a leading position. It was Minardi's first completely newly built and actually used chassis since Gustav Brunner's Minardi PS01 from 2001 (although Minardi developed the Minardi PS04 based on the Arrows A23 in autumn 2003, but rejected this concept again). The models in between were just more or less revised versions of the PS01. Since the new car was not ready in time due to changes in the regulations decided by the FIA very late , it could only be used from the San Marino Grand Prix. The constantly underfunded team from Faenza contested the first three Grands Prix with the Minardi PS04B from last year .

The new car was a risky development. Except for the front suspension, it had little in common with its predecessor. On both axles the wheels were suspended from double wishbones made of composite material. There was a stabilizer both front and rear . The internal torsion springs and shock absorbers were operated via push rods. Among other things, Minardi followed the trend towards ever smaller and more detailed aerodynamic components and a generally more curved vehicle shape (particularly the side pods). The front wing was also elaborately designed and resembled that of the Renault R25 . The air outlet chimneys on the side pods were placed unusually far to the front, and the tailpipes protruding far to the rear were also a special feature.

The car eventually proved to be competitive within the bounds of its possibilities: As hoped, it was able to regularly measure itself against the Jordans and beat them every now and then. The car was a clear step forward for Minardi. However, the reliability was unsatisfactory at the beginning, but could be improved significantly over the course of the season.

For the first time in a long time, Minardi had a modern and reasonably powerful engine at its disposal with the Cosworth TJ2005. The team was able to use the Series 10 expansion stage (the even more recent version Series 12 was used by Red Bull Racing from the middle of the season). However, the engine did not fit into the PS04B, which is why it was only used from the race in San Marino. The PS04B was still driving the year-old and well 588 kW (800 PS) Cosworth CR-3L, which was only given the new name Cosworth CK-2004 V10. The new Cosworth TJ2005 made about 37 kW (50 hp) more. The naturally aspirated V-10 engine with 2998 cm³ displacement had a cylinder bank angle of 90 °, two overhead camshafts per cylinder bank and four valves per cylinder.

Minardi built the gearbox himself again. The sequential semi-automatic gearbox only had six forward gears (and reverse gear), and almost all the other teams were already using a seven-speed gearbox. The differential also came from Minardi's own production. As in the previous year, the team obtained the tires from Bridgestone , which was a disadvantage as the Michelin tires were superior in 2005. The electronics were developed by Magneti Marelli . The gasoline was again supplied by Elf Aquitaine , the lubricants Silkolene and CPC . The dampers were built by Sachs , the three-plate clutch with clutch plates made of carbon fiber reinforced silicon carbide ceramic came from AP Racing and the wheels from OZ .

2005 season

Christijan Albers at the Canadian Grand Prix after a spin

The PS05 was used for the first time at the San Marino Grand Prix. After it had hardly been tested due to lack of time, the debut suffered a double failure due to a defective gearbox. The Spanish Grand Prix took a similar course , when Albers' gearbox also failed and Friesacher failed due to a lathe. It wasn't until the third attempt, the Monaco Grand Prix , that the car crossed the finish line for the first time: Albers, benefiting from many failures, was fourteenth; Friesacher did not cross the finish line again after an accident, but had a strong performance this weekend: In qualifying, he finished 13th and was significantly faster than his team-mate, with Albers completing a good qualifying result for Minardi with 14th place. However, three vehicles had not set times and a total of only 18 drivers competed, as the two BARs were excluded from the Grand Prix due to illegal cars.

The high point of the season was the US Grand Prix : Since the manufacturer Michelin forecast only a very low level of durability in the race for its tires on this route, all teams equipped with these tires decided not to take part in the race and turned into the pits at the end of the introductory lap . Because tire changes during the race were forbidden in 2005, so that the teams concerned would have had a major safety risk if they had driven a full race distance with worn tires. Only the six Bridgestone-tyred cars from Ferrari , Jordan and Minardi competed . So it was only a matter of getting both cars safely over the race distance in order to score certain points. That succeeded and Minardi finished the race in fifth (Albers) and sixth (Friesacher). Minardi scored seven points, as many as in the entire team history only in 1993 , but at that time still according to the old point system.

After the French Grand Prix, Robert Doornbos took over the cockpit from Patrick Friesacher, who was no longer allowed to drive for Minardi due to outstanding sponsor payments. The inexperienced Doornbos could not build on the achievements of Friesacher.

In the remaining races Minardi was again far from points, but the reliability got better and better and in the duels with the Jordans Minardi could do better and better. In the end, the team finished the season with seven points in tenth place. In the drivers' world championship, Albers came 19th with four points, Friesacher 21st with three points and Doornbos 25th without any points.

During the season, Paul Stoddart sold the team to Red Bull on November 1. It was renamed a junior team for Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso from the 2006 season . Although it remained largely the same in terms of personnel and also kept the headquarters in Faenza, the history of the Minardi team, which had been going on since 1985 , ended with the 2005 Chinese Grand Prix . The PS05 was the last Formula 1 car from Minardi.

Sponsors and liveries

The paintwork of the cars was in the colors of Paul Stoddart's company in black and white. The most important sponsors were OzJet , Lost Boys , MAN , Upex , Kärnten , JVC , Garcia BV , LeasePlan , Muermans Group , MD Helicopters and the CO₂-neutral campaign of the Dutch organization TerraVitalis .

Results

driver	No.	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	Points	rank
Formula 1 World Championship 2005																					7th	10.
Patrick Friesacher	20th				DNF	DNF	DNF	18th	DNF	6th	DNF	19th
Robert Doornbos													18th	DNF	13	18th	13	DNF	14th	14th
Christijan Albers	21st				DNF	DNF	14th	17th	11	5	DNF	18th	13	NC	DNF	19th	12	14th	16	16

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Web links

Commons : Minardi PS05  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Minardi PS05 in the motorsport-total.com database
• Minardi PS05 at statsf1.com
• Minardi PS05 at f1technical.net (engl.)
• Minardi PS05 at ultimatecarpage.com (engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Motorsport aktuell, issue 31/2005, p. 20.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Seasonal Analysis Part 6: Patrick Friesacher , motorsport-total.com from October 29, 2005; Accessed April 21, 2019
3. ↑ Motorsport aktuell, issue 18/2005, p. 21
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} And it moves , Auto, Motor und Sport from April 19, 2005; Accessed April 21, 2019
5. ^ ^{A b} Minardi: Only the defect devil overshadows the progress , motorsport-magazin.com of August 21, 2005; Accessed April 21, 2019
6. ↑ Minardi Cosworth PS05 , f1technical.net; Accessed April 22, 2019
7. ↑ Minardi PS05 Cosworth , ultimatecarpage.com, May 9, 2005; Accessed April 22, 2019
8. ↑ Review and look-out: Ferrari would like to start over , FAZ from August 1, 2005; Accessed April 21, 2019
9. ^ Successful rollout of the Minardi-Cosworth PS05 , motorsport-total.com from April 15, 2005; Accessed April 21, 2019
10. ↑ Unfortunate premiere of the Minardi-Cosworth PS05 , motorsport-total.com on April 24, 2005; Accessed April 21, 2019
11. ↑ Seasonal Analysis Part 2: Robert Doornbos , motorsport-total.com of October 25, 2005; Accessed April 21, 2019
12. ↑ Minardi PS05 , chicanef1.com; Accessed April 21, 2019