Minardi PS04B


The Minardi PS04B was a Formula One race car used by Minardi Cosworth in the 2004 Formula One season.
In 2003 all of the Arrows A23 chassis and the full Arrows Grand Prix International intellectual property rights were bought by Minardi. The Arrows A23 was renamed the Minardi PS04 and in back-to-back tests it was found superior to the Minardi's PS03. Minardi however decide that they could not run a "pure-Arrows" and hence used the Arrows intellectual property, which included the new designs for the Arrows A24 and the best elements from the PS03 and PS04 / Arrows A23 to develop the Minardi PS04B for the 2004 season.
Period reports even hinted that the PS04B was possibly based more closely on the Arrows A24 than Minardi might have been prepared to publicly admit.
For following season the PS04B was developed into the PS05.
The PS04B was driven by rookie Gianmaria Bruni, and Zsolt Baumgartner who had moved from Jordan. The team managed to earn their first point in two years, after Baumgartner finished 8th at the United States Grand Prix.
In 2005, Minardi used a PS04B chassis for the first three races of the season before they made a new PS05 chassis due to assembly problems.

Complete Formula One results

YearEntrantEngineTyresDrivers12345678910111213141516171819PointsWCC
2004Minardi CosworthCosworth V10AUSMALBHRSMRESPMONEURCANUSAFRAGBRGERHUNBELITACHNJPNBRA110th
2004Minardi CosworthCosworth V10Gianmaria BruniRet1417RetRetRet14RetRet18161714RetRetRet1617110th
2004Minardi CosworthCosworth V10Zsolt BaumgartnerRet16Ret15Ret915108RetRet1615Ret1516Ret16110th
2005Minardi F1 TeamCosworth V10AUSMALBHRSMRESPMONEURCANUSAFRAGBRGERHUNTURITABELBRAJPNCHN7*10th
2005Minardi F1 TeamCosworth V10Patrick Friesacher17Ret127*10th
2005Minardi F1 TeamCosworth V10Christijan AlbersRet13137*10th

* All points scored with the PS05.