Paul Stoddart Quotations

Only time will tell if it is a good day for Formula One or a bad day for Formula One, but unfortunately, and I don't like to say this, I don't think it will prove to be a good day.

I'd like to come back. I'm certainly not finished with Formula One.

I am going to be very sad to leave this paddock and the sport I love. I have always said, however, that I would consider selling the team if a serious potential buyer could meet certain key conditions.

I am going to be very sad to leave this paddock and the sport I love,

I have always said, however, that I would consider selling the team if a serious potential buyer could meet certain key conditions.

I always said I would sell Minardi if someone could invest in the team and keep them at Faezna in Italy and such an offer has come along,

We took a gamble today on the rain that didn't come and started on full-wet tyres. From that point onwards, our race was effectively compromised. That said, both drivers, and indeed, the whole team, got through a difficult race and a most difficult weekend. Full marks to Tiago for scoring a well-deserved point, and my thanks to the whole Minardi Team, including factory-based staff in Faenza, for their support.

With me it was F3000 and Formula One. I don't really see that transition being made very easily now.

Like many drivers, Fernando started his career with Minardi, and even in those early days, there were obvious signs of his huge natural talent and ability. It was equally clear that with the right team and the right car at the right moment, (Alonso winning the title) was always going to happen.

That was the happiest day of my life, not just in Formula One. Full stop. Proudest day of my life,

That whole 10-day period in Melbourne 2002 will go down in the history books as the most popular two points ever scored in Formula One.

That was a pretty serious effort and I will always remember the tears of pride that the guys were crying when I came off the pit wall that day,

We envisage flights arriving in Perth around 9.30 on each of those six nights, and then the eastern-bound service departing at 11.30 for an overnight flight.

We've got the cars we ran in Melbourne last year, we've got the team and we've got the facility.

The qualifying, time will tell, but the tyre changes will bring a tyre war and a massive escalation in costs and I do not think it is the smartest move,

Whereas EJ (Jordan), me and Peter when he first came in, and in fairness the many teams that didn't make it, probably came more up through the ranks.

We are in. We'll be running all day tomorrow and then we'll have to wait and see what happens.

We would look at its performance after six months and the only thing that would stop us would be if the public was not giving us support.

There is a commercial agreement in place with Bernie for both races, with the agreement of nine of the 10 teams,

To see 20 or 30 grown men so emotional made me feel pretty proud that we'd achieved the impossible dream.

The operating losses on a bad week were a million dollars and on a good week they were three-quarters of a million dollars. That's the kind of money it was blowing.

There is nothing planned for Spa, but hopefully they'll both put in solid performances. The car should be good there and hopefully we can keep the reliability up.

And we were only seeing, at best, the sort of mid-30s.

It's a sad day for Formula One when the privateers really do go, but I think we are entering into a new era where the privateers are the Red Bulls, they are really well funded.

It will be all about moving further forward.

It's a very sad day and I really wish there was another solution.

They were probably the happiest five years of my life but also the hardest and, hopefully, with a bit of pressure off maybe it will give me time to reconsider what if anything might still be around.

I leave Minardi in a lot healthier state than when I bought it in 2000.

If there are two championships, I would love to come back in the manufacturers' one.

And for us that just didn't happen. We were carrying the same passengers in February, and projected through March that we were carrying, as we were in January.

The meeting...with Mosley I suspect won't be attended. It will be tea and biscuits with (Ferrari boss Jean) Todt again I expect. I might be wrong.