Irvine to switch focus to Minardi?
Having been linked with a possible purchase of his former team Jordan earlier this season, Eddie Irvine could now elect to make a bid for perennial back markers Minardi according to reports.
Talk of a possible bid for Jordan surfaced at the Monaco Grand Prix, but no deal has been reached between Irvine and the team - leading to reports in British tabloid The Sun - for whom Irvine writes regularly - that he will jet into Hockenheim to hold talks with Paul Stoddart about making a bid for Minardi.
Having been linked with a possible purchase of his former team Jordan earlier this season, Eddie Irvine could now elect to make a bid for perennial back markers Minardi according to reports.
Talk of a possible bid for Jordan surfaced at the Monaco Grand Prix, but no deal has been reached between Irvine and the team - leading to reports in British tabloid The Sun - for whom Irvine writes regularly - that he will jet into Hockenheim to hold talks with Paul Stoddart about making a bid for Minardi.
A source close to Irvine told the tabloid that 'silly cash demands' brought any chance of a deal for Jordan to a close, while Stoddart himself confirmed Irvine had been in contact regarding his team.
"Irvine has been in touch with me," he said. "But we can only start serious talks to moment he puts a ?20m deposit on the table."
Any possible bid for the Italian team wouldn't be funded by Irvine himself, but by Russian billionaire Roustam Tariko - the man Irvine introduced to the Midland F1 group at the Monaco GP while Jordan was still his preferred target.
