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Minassian unfairly 'Brand'ed - April 22nd 2003
Yesterday evening Brand Motorsport distributed a press release saying they had fired Nicolas Minassian from their F3000 team due to unacceptable conduct from the Frenchman, but this is clearly not the case.
Minassian has categorically denied these claims and would like to make it clear to the motorsport community that immediately following the Barcelona test session, the week before the race in Imola, he expressed concerns regarding the teams preparation for the season.
I thought that as Brand Motorsport was essentially a new team, that they were under-prepared to compete at this level, commented Minassian. If it wasnt for Martin Kendricks heartfelt request for me to compete, I would not have been in Imola at all that weekend.
Immediately following the first round of the F3000 Championship, Minassian quit the team. I was not under contract to the team, he said. When I joined Brand they had an experienced level of staff supporting the team, but a...