Paul Stoddart, team owner of Minardi, indicated on TV that 9 teams agreed to race if an additional chicane was placed on the track. That was rejected by Ferrari and the FIA.
Furthermore, he said that he and Jordan agreed not to race either but that his team was racing now because Jordan broke that agreement.
If Jordan an Minardi wouldn’t have raced, it would have left Ferrari to race on their own!
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