Super Aguri F1 Team


2006 car: SA06.

Engine: Honda.
Tyres: Bridgestone.

Team Base: Leafield, Oxfordshire.
Team Chief: Aguri Suzuki.

Technical Director: Mark Preston.
Test Drivers: Franck Montagny (France).

First F1 GP: n/a. Last Year: n/a.
History:

Races: 0. Points: 0. Wins 0.
Best Championship position: n/a.


22 Takuma Sato


Born: Jan 28, 1977, Japan. GP debut: Australia, 2002. Starts: 54. Wins: 0. Poles: 0. Fastest laps: 0. Points: 40. Best ch'ship position: 8th, 34pts (2004).


23 Yuji Ide


Born: Jan 12, 1975, Japan. GP debut: n/a. Starts: 0. Wins: 0. Poles: 0. Fastest laps: 0. Points: 0. Best ch'ship position: n/a.


No one can work this one out. As welcome as an 11th team are on the starting grid, this lot are likely to be way off the pace.


Honda are supplying engines and technical support yet deny these are their second team. F1's weird and wonderful rulebook compels Super Aguri to start the season with an old Arrows chassis.


No wonder Anthony Davidson opted to stay as a Honda test driver than race here. Takuma Sato, who had nowhere else to go, partners rookie Yuji Ide.


Sato had a shocker last season, returning just one point. He would take that now.