The Weekly Grapevine
This week, Dieter Rencken reveals Paul Stoddart's planned legal action against the FIA, and he makes a proposal for qualifying
The Future and V10s The unveiling of Minardi's PS05 a fortnight ago gave indirect confirmation that Paul Stoddart's tiny team intend running a 3000cc V10 in 2006/7, for how else could the cash-strapped team justify a completely new chassis for just 16 races? Certain structural components on the PS04 had been around, in real terms, since 2002, so surely the team would require their latest design to have a shelf life beyond China this year.
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