Paul Stoddart: finding faith in Fernando Alonso and Minardi’s miracle
F1: Beyond The Grid
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The Six Week Period
We were building Tasso's car physically from the ground up in the pit lane. We didn't have enough hotel rooms so we used to kick people who had hot rooms. Fernando put in plenty of all-nighters helping to build the car. I walked outside the factory and it was thick pea soup fog. And I thought, no, come on, after all this effort and I knew the plane had gone because it was two and a half hour flight. So I drove to the airport and I couldn't see the bloody terminal from the car park. The BAC 111 has what is called a cat-three auto land - which means it doesn't lands itself but you still ought
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