Irvine To Own A F.1 Team?

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Eddie Irvine, we can reveal, will attend a third grand prix on the trot at Monaco next weekend. It, perhaps, gives credence to an odd rumour in the Barcelona paddock -- that the Ulsterman and former Ferrari driver has a keen eye on Minardi.

Although current Faenza owner Paul Stoddart sat out Spain with a nasty 'flu, speculation whispered that 39-year-old Irvine - with a personal fortune outpacing even countryman Eddie Jordan - may buy the back-of-the-grid squad.

Irvine, 39, has - until now - seldom showed a face in the Paddock since retiring in 2002. He said in January: "The idea of owning a (grand prix) team is interesting, but the way it is at the minute, the sport is not owner-friendly."

SOURCE: F.1 RACING.NET

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Eddie Irvine, we can reveal, will attend a third grand prix on the trot at Monaco next weekend. It, perhaps, gives credence to an odd rumour in the Barcelona paddock -- that the Ulsterman and former Ferrari driver has a keen eye on Minardi. 

 

Although current Faenza owner Paul Stoddart sat out Spain with a nasty 'flu, speculation whispered that 39-year-old Irvine - with a personal fortune outpacing even countryman Eddie Jordan - may buy the back-of-the-grid squad.

Irvine, 39, has - until now - seldom showed a face in the Paddock since retiring in 2002. He said in January: "The idea of owning a (grand prix) team is interesting, but the way it is at the minute, the sport is not owner-friendly."

SOURCE: F.1 RACING.NET

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Very interesting rumour but running Minardi would hardly be a profitable venture.

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Prost had its moment in the sun but Irvine is closer to a fool than a professor so I don't see him managing the same limited success.

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Indeed, and he certainly wasn