It has been a week since the grand 2008 F1 season finale, it is about the time to begin the evaluations here. Not everything went according to pre-season predictions, some teams did better some much worse than expected (or hoped). But let’s forget about the cars and focus on the drivers here. This is the [...]
2009
Toro Rosso and Takuma Sato – Can that go wrong ?
When I first heard about the possible Sato – Toro Rosso connection I found it to be quite good joke. There is a lot of competition for the vacancy created by Vettel’s move to Red Bull. Well, of course. Many drivers want to get to F1 and Toro Rosso’s is so far the only confirmed [...]
2008
2008 F1 Season – Team Mates – Super Aguri
Super Aguri confirmed their 2008 drivers line up just in time to make the final chapter of the 2008 F1 Team Mates series. So at least early on in the season we will again see both Takuma Sato and Anthony Davidson racing for the freshly sold team.
Takuma Sato – Japan
Born: 28 January 1977
In F1 since 2002 [...]
2008
Super Aguri partners with Magma, confirms Sato and Davidson
The waiting is over. Super Aguri team announced today they concluded acquisition talks with the Magma Group. At the same time the team confirmed Takuma Sato and Anthony Davidson as their race drivers for the 2008 season.
Aguri Suzuki, team principal:
“I am pleased to announce our new partner and drivers finally at this late stage. I [...]
2008
Things do not seem to be getting any better for Super Aguri
I believe that by now Max Mosley is not the only person with serious doubts about the future of the smallest team on the Formula 1 grid. These are the latest words of Aguri Suzuki, the team owner:
“Super Aguri will not take part in testing in Barcelona this week because of elements out of our [...]
2008
Honda warns Super Aguri over drivers
This week has been mostly about Honda, thanks to their car launch. Super Aguri also made it to the news thanks to Max Mosley’s doubts about their future. Now the strong words from Honda, namely from Nick Fry (to Reuters) only add to Super Aguri woes:
“The intent for 2008 is that Aguri will be on [...]
2008
2008 F1 Drivers Helmets
The teams keep rolling out their new cars and the F1 drivers are coming up with their 2008 helmet design. Here they are:
Raikkonen, Massa
Hamilton, Kovalainen
Heidfeld, Kubica
Alonso, Piquet
Rosberg, Nakajima
Webber, Coulthard
Glock, Trulli
Barrichello, Button
[...]
2008
Stake in Super Aguri sold ?
The German magazine AutoBild reports that Aguri Suzuki has sold 50% stake in the Super Aguri F1 team to Spanish billionaire Alejandro Agag. The GP2 team owner Agag has been linked with purchase of Super Aguri shares for quite some time.
Super Aguri run into financial difficulties after their sponsor SS United defaulted on the sponsorship [...]
2007
Super Aguri Rumours And Super Aguri 2007 Screensaver
After some period of silence few Super Aguri rumours surfaced last week.
First there was a suggestion in Swiss paper Blick that Luca Filippi is in the running for the second race seat in the Japanese outfit. The reason behind such move is reportedly 10 million Euros in sponsorship money Filippi would be bringing with him. [...]
2007
2007 Formula 1 Photos – The Ultimate Download Collection
During the past month I published series of posts with the high resolution photos of all the teams and all the drivers (well almost, one driver is missing) of 2007 Formula 1 season for download.
For those who missed it, here are all the links:
Kimi Raikkonen
Lewis Hamilton
Fernando Alonso
Felipe Massa
Nick Heidfeld [...]
2007
2007 F1 Season Review – Part 5 – Honda, Super Aguri, Spyker
Honda
Oh my…. What a season. This is a team that under its old identity BAR Honda finished 2nd in the constructors table in 2004. This is the team that recorded its first race win in 2006. This the team who’s driver Jenson Button finished 3rd in driver’s table in 2004 and scored more [...]
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