Minardi M198...............

[Car-Matt]

Awesome car and pics, thank you. It was always said how nicely made the Minardi cars were, nice to see it for real.

[LordGrover]

poppopbangbang said:

A few slow fly bys from Chicago - https://youtu.be/ICNx5lXVo6w

There was a gentlemans agreement on a 100kph limit hence it not being anywhere near lit!

But still... sounds glorious!

[Altrezia]

Oh my.. I want a go!!

Gorgeous thing, both on and under the skin

[F1GTRUeno]

I always love a good PPBB thread.

F1 cars are the most amazing things.

Definitely take it back to original 98 spec and livery if you can.

Bookmarked.

[Krikkit]

Phwoar, lovely. Interesting how original it is too.

[Mr lestat]

Fantastic. Bookmarked

Do you know who drove it?

Edited by Mr lestat on Tuesday 11th June 21:44

[DanielSan]

Mr lestat said:

Fantastic. Bookmarked

Do you know who drove it?

Edited by Mr lestat on Tuesday 11th June 21:44

Shinji Nakano or Esteban Tuero if I remember rightly. Not sure if they had a 3rd driver that season. There wasn't one in the F1 98 game

[Julian Thompson]

Nice one Matt :-)

[Mr Tidy]

Fantastic - you can't beat a "ppbb" thread!

[AussieFozzy]

poppopbangbang said:

It's all via the original Marelli Vision software (so 32bit XP only) with the original Minardi layouts/code which in turn communicates via a pair of specific Marelli interfaces (one for engine and one for gearbox) which connect to an external jump battery that then busses comms, power and a few other things (like remote throttle joystick etc.) down a single umbilical to the car.

I think one of the most underrated abilities of the Heritage F1 team is the electronics stuff. I know most people find it all a bit boring because its essentially wiring and everyone hates wiring but it is really impressive stuff especially from a small independent company.

[poppopbangbang]

F1GTRUeno said:

I always love a good PPBB thread.

F1 cars are the most amazing things.

Definitely take it back to original 98 spec and livery if you can.

Bookmarked.

I'm in two minds on this, mainly because that's not how it finished it's time in F1 with the team. How it stands today is how it left Minardi and it had a decent career as test and demo car during that time...... but also that's not how it raced - decisions

[poppopbangbang]

Car-Matt said:

Awesome car and pics, thank you. It was always said how nicely made the Minardi cars were, nice to see it for real.

They were lovely, and very advanced given the teams budget. Minardi ran a torsion bar car in 1999, Jaguar were still on coil springs in 2004. FRICS in 1993, Blown Diffuser in 2001..... it's interesting to see where the guys from Minardi moved to and where that tech cropped up next

[poppopbangbang]

AussieFozzy said:

I think one of the most underrated abilities of the Heritage F1 team is the electronics stuff. I know most people find it all a bit boring because its essentially wiring and everyone hates wiring but it is really impressive stuff especially from a small independent company.

It's not just electronics, when you think we do our own Hydraulics, Gearboxes, run a full machine shop, design studio, inspection lab and make 90% of the parts we use in house from a team smaller than most F1 teams catering staff we're kind of taking "lean" to a new level

[poppopbangbang]

Mr lestat said:

Fantastic. Bookmarked

Do you know who drove it?

Edited by Mr lestat on Tuesday 11th June 21:44

It was Shinjis car back in the day.

Hopefully I don't have the same luck with engines that he did - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td7uQYq20SQ

[Mr lestat]

poppopbangbang said:

Mr lestat said:

Fantastic. Bookmarked

Do you know who drove it?

Edited by Mr lestat on Tuesday 11th June 21:44

It was Shinjis car back in the day.

Hopefully I don't have the same luck with engines that he did - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td7uQYq20SQ

I’m afraid to say I don’t know what PPBB means and have googled it but there are several acronyms it applies to. Perhaps I should hand in my PistonHeads card and shuffle off

Performance, priorities based budgeting etc

[poppopbangbang]

Julian Thompson said:

Nice one Matt :-)

Thanks Julian

[TheJimi]

Mr lestat said:

poppopbangbang said:

Mr lestat said:

Fantastic. Bookmarked

Do you know who drove it?

Edited by Mr lestat on Tuesday 11th June 21:44

It was Shinjis car back in the day.

Hopefully I don't have the same luck with engines that he did - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td7uQYq20SQ

I’m afraid to say I don’t know what PPBB means and have googled it but there are several acronyms it applies to. Perhaps I should hand in my PistonHeads card and shuffle off

Performance, priorities based budgeting etc

PPBB = an abbreviation of the OP's username, poppopbangbang.

[Mr lestat]

TheJimi said:

Mr lestat said:

poppopbangbang said:

Mr lestat said:

Fantastic. Bookmarked

Do you know who drove it?

Edited by Mr lestat on Tuesday 11th June 21:44

It was Shinjis car back in the day.

Hopefully I don't have the same luck with engines that he did - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td7uQYq20SQ

I’m afraid to say I don’t know what PPBB means and have googled it but there are several acronyms it applies to. Perhaps I should hand in my PistonHeads card and shuffle off

Performance, priorities based budgeting etc

PPBB = an abbreviation of the OP's username, poppopbangbang.

Ah yes. Obv I was reading too much into it

[trails]

poppopbangbang said:

A few slow fly bys from Chicago - https://youtu.be/ICNx5lXVo6w

There was a gentlemans agreement on a 100kph limit hence it not being anywhere near lit!

Engine sounds fantastic, love listening to how quickly the engine drops back to idle after being given a boot full...what a dull job you have

[DRCAGE]

poppopbangbang said:

It's feckin huge! Comes with steps and everything!

All looking very swish over there (That CMM arm thing is completely badass!)

oh yeah, nice car etc etc...