2006 AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX – FREE PRACTICE & QUALIFYING
TAKUMA SATO Car 22 (SA05-02)
FP3 Position 19 Fastest Lap Time 1:41.448
QUALIFYING Grid Position 21 Lap Time 1:32.279
YUJI IDE Car 23 (SA05-03)
FP3 Position 18 Fastest Lap Time 1:40.261
QUALIFYING Grid Position 22 Lap Time 1:36.164
T-Car SA05-01
Takuma Sato
“It was another difficult day for us. I lost about
three-quarters of the practice session running due to a hydraulic
problem, but the boys in the team did a great job to recover
as much time as possible and get me out onto the track for
a few laps in the wet conditions. The track dried out considerably
for the qualifying session and I tried my best but unfortunately
encountered traffic on my fastest lap. It would have been
nice to make up a couple more tenths, but I think under the
circumstances I am happy.”
Yuji Ide
"I was struggling to find the right setup of the car.
I used two sets of tyres but they didn't warm up as I wanted
it to so I went off the course few times. I couldn't get much
grip for some reason so we will find out the cause of it and
hopefully we could have a good race tomorrow."
Aguri Suzuki, Team Principal
"The weather did not help us today at all and we had
some problems throughout the day. We were not able to test
set-ups for the car very much and Yuji spun a few times during
qualifying. I must say today was the toughest qualifying for
us so far. However, we shall discuss all of this in our overnight
meetings and we should be able to have a better set-up for
the race tomorrow."
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