Why?

Crash Test · 17 Jun 2000, 11:19 (Ref:17694)

Burglars steal Minardi computers

Minardi received a blow on Thursday night when equipment was stolen from a temporary office in the back of its pit garage.

Shoddy security measures allowed burglars to storm the office and nab two important laptop computers belonging to race engineers, as well as promotional products.

Fortunately, the thieves didn’t take a box next to the computers, which contained the M02 steering wheels. Had they been snatched, the Faenza team’s weekend competition would have been thrown into doubt.

However, valuable data on the Canadian circuit, vital set-up information including wing, suspension, engine and all sorts of other set-up information is now lost.

Minardi officials said some data could be retrieved from the desktop computers.

This is a bloody stupid thing to do...wouldnt you steal set up info from McLaren or Ferrari???

fatbloke · 17 Jun 2000, 11:26 (Ref:17695)

This isn't the first time. Wasn't it Minardi who had their pit broken into a few years ago, and the brake lines on the car snipped ?

You would have thought they'd learnt their lesson and copied McLaren and Ferrari in putting ex-mafia hitmen on security duties.

Crash Test · 17 Jun 2000, 11:34 (Ref:17696)

Or they could get MFs tough friend, who was that? Takagi??

marcus · 17 Jun 2000, 11:45 (Ref:17697)

It was actually the leyton house march team fatbloke back in 91 I think.

this goes along with the conspiricy theory was going on with that letter a while back..JUST LEAVE MINARDI ALONE...Maybe it was Bernie stealing the computers saying that it had material containing the words Formula 1 in it.....

Tristan · 17 Jun 2000, 13:14 (Ref:17703)

YOU'RE RIGHT!! IT'S A VENDETTA!! A CONSPIRACY, I TELL YOU!! PICK ON SOMEONE YOUR OWN SIZE!!!!!!

Minardi fan · 18 Jun 2000, 23:18 (Ref:17880)

The cheek!

It's a fact that Big Ron and JT the Pit Lane Pixie always take a trip to the Minardi pit to nick ideas for their cars from them. I reckon it was Ron - "Don't be satisfied with yesterday. Steal another team's ideas."

fatbloke · 18 Jun 2000, 23:34 (Ref:17885)

If it was Ron, it'd sure explain their poor race performance...

Sharky · 18 Jun 2000, 23:41 (Ref:17889)

mhhhh....well....It happened again then. remember that last years some computers got stolen from the Mclaren garage last year at Canada. Mhhh....but I don't think anyone would be trying to steal Minardi's info....

Murph · 19 Jun 2000, 01:03 (Ref:17901)

I thought the computer was stolen from the Ferrari garage last year in Montreal.... not McLaren. McLaren has enlisted the services of the cast of the TV series "The Sopranos" to ensure that nothing "unfortunate" happens to any of their "stuff" locked away in the Montreal garages. I wonder how many bodies are "swimming with the fishes" at the bottom of the Olympic Rowing Basin.........

Gerard · 19 Jun 2000, 01:52 (Ref:17904)

Well we haven't seen Max Mosley in the pits for a while.
Could it be....nah, it couldn't.
Or?

Liz · 19 Jun 2000, 14:04 (Ref:17991)

Next year all the teams should invest in a computer system with GeoLocators on board, and a program that executes when the machine leaves the shop, that shuts down all the data and starts blowing whistles and sirens and yelling "HELP HELP I AM BEING STOLEN FROM [YOUR TEAM HERE]! HELP, CALL [YOUR TEAM HERE] AT ONCE!" Once the idiots who can't keep their hands off other peoples property had dropped said property, the locators would allow the owners to find it.

Alternatively, the Singapore Option could be added in which case not only all of the above would happen, but a set of handcuffs would immediately shackle the malefactors to the stuff they stole.

Red · 19 Jun 2000, 14:20 (Ref:17997)

Actually, five team garages were broken into last year. One of them was McLaren (I don't know who were the other four). In Mac's case, they were brand new pieces of equipment (five computers), so no data was lost or stolen. (what's going on there anyway...)