Super Aguri on the (right or wrong ?) track
After raking up some mileage for Honda back in 2007 part of this winter, not exactly perfect test in Jerez in Januray and then missing out on several previous F1 tests, the financially troubled Super Aguri finally made it to the track again. Takuma Sato did 90 laps in Jerez yesterday in SA07B interim car and the team seems to be satisfied with the way the test went. The SA07B was less than 3 tenths slower than Barrichello’s new Honda RA108.
On the same day however the team also announced postponing their new car launch (originally planned for February 19, 2008). Instead the team boss Aguri Suzuki and technical director Mark Preston will be at the circuit to answer media questions. Their new car is still due to run for the first time in Barcelona next week but withoit the official launch. That means no confirmation on the drivers line up, no new livery yet. It looks like we may have to wait perhaps until he season opener in Australia to see how the Super Aguri new car, the SA08, will look like and who will be driving it.
Now this may mean bad news (no deal in sight) or good news (ongoing talks looking good) for the team. One thing is obvious - no sponsorship or investment deals have been finalized yet.
tags: Tags: Aguri Suzuki, Barcelona, Honda, Jerez, Rubens Barrichello, Super Aguri, Takuma Sato
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February 14th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Let’s keep our finger crossed. Hopefully they can secure those investment..Hate loosing more team because of the money..
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February 14th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Well, to me, that doesn’t sound good. If they had planned an official launch (and gone to the trouble of telling people about it) then they go and postpone it, I would have serious doubts about the structure of the team ahead of the new season.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
It definitelly does not sound too good. but both the drivers are running in Jerez (Sato past 2 days, Davidson is on today), so seems they both hope to continue with the team, even if they are still without contract …
I think that no matter what, if nothing works out Honda will keep them going this season …
February 16th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
It’s hard to read anything positive about this. It sounds like they have been competitve in practice, at least compared to Honda. Hopefully they can pull it together to field a team.