Circuit de Nevers, Magny-Cours
2006 FRENCH GRAND PRIX – FREE PRACTICE
TAKUMA SATO - Car No: 22 (chassis SA05-05)
FP1 Position 15 No: of Laps 10 Best Lap 1:21.160
FP2 Position 23 No: of Laps 22 Best Lap 1:19.996
FRANCK MONTAGNY - Car No: 23 (chassis SA05-02)
FP1 Position 14 No: of Laps 11 Best Lap 1:20.790
FP2 Position 28 No: of Laps 14 Best Lap 1:21.132
SAKON YAMAMOTO - Car No: 41 (chassis SA05-01)
FP1 Position 16 No: of Laps 11 Best Lap 1:23.891
FP2 Position 29 No: of Laps 32 Best Lap 1:21.969
Weather Hot & sunny Air Temperature 28-36°C Track
Temperature 40-54°C
SUPER AGURI F1 TEAM made an encouraging start to the French
Grand Prix weekend during the free practice sessions at the
Circuit de Nevers in Magny-Cours today. The team completed
the majority of its planned running programme with Takuma
and Franck, however Sakon’s car crew encountered a few
minor issues that hindered his progress today.
Takuma Sato
“The weather is extremely hot and we had very low grip
here at the beginning of the day. With every outing the car
set-up progressed, so I am reasonably happy with the final
set-up that we have found. We worked through our usual tyre
programme today and the car seems to be working well considering
the high temperatures. The track should continue to improve
over the next two days, so we shall work further on improving
the set-up tomorrow morning and hope for another good Qualifying
session tomorrow.”
Franck Montagny
“Today was quite okay. This morning’s session
was fine and this afternoon we had a little bit more problem
with the car due to temperature, but I think it's going to
be okay for the rest of the weekend. We just have to work
a little bit on the set-up now and I think that it is going
to be cool. Unfortunately I was held up by Wurz on my quickest
lap and so my fastest time could have been a little better,
but I am quite happy with our work today.”
Sakon Yamamoto
“This morning was unfortunately not a perfect start
to the day because we had a car problem and lost a lot of
time so we could not complete our planned programme. We had
a really hard job in the afternoon but were able to finish
what we needed to achieve. The whole team has worked hard
and I am happy that I could help them by supplying some good
data for the rest of this weekend.”
Aguri Suzuki, Team Principal
"It was a reasonably good Friday for us. Sakon suffered
a problem this morning, but we rectified it and in the afternoon
we were able to continue with our Bridgestone tyre comparisons,
which we are relatively happy with. Taku seems quite happy
with the set-up of his car, but I think that Franck may not
be so happy after being held up in traffic on his quick lap.
That said we've managed to complete almost our entire planned
programme, so it has not been a bad day.”
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