Gilles Villeneuve Circuit, Montréal
2006 CANADIAN GRAND PRIX – FREE PRACTICE
TAKUMA SATO - Car No: 22 (chassis SA05-05)
FP1 Position 14 No: of Laps 20 Best Lap 1:21.891
FP2 Position 26 No: of Laps 22 Best Lap 1:19.624
FRANCK MONTAGNY - Car No: 23 (chassis SA05-02)
FP1 Position 13 No: of Laps 17 Best Lap 1:21.783
FP2 Position 29 No: of Laps 22 Best Lap 1:21.434
SAKON YAMAMOTO - Car No: 41 (chassis SA05-01)
FP1 Position 15 No: of Laps 29 Best Lap 1:23.159
FP2 Position 27 No: of Laps 26 Best Lap 1:20.197
Weather Dry, cloudy Air Temperature 20-21°C Track Temperature
25-27°C
Changeable weather and track conditions in Montréal
today contributed to a difficult start to the 2006 Canadian
Grand Prix weekend for the SUPER AGURI F1 TEAM. The team also
encountered a number of issues with the SA05 cars, however
Takuma and Sakon were able to complete their respective scheduled
programmes whilst Franck struggled to find a good set-up for
his car.
Takuma Sato
“It was a good first day although we were struggling
to find good car balance and suffered quite a lot with oversteer.
The cars’ aero specification is very different from
what we used when we were in Europe so this morning’s
session was spent testing the balance and starting our tyre
programme. The cold temperature this morning was not favourable
for our tyre runs and although the weather improved in the
afternoon we continued to struggle a lot with the balance.
We will work on that and hope to have a better day tomorrow.”
Franck Montagny
“This morning wasn’t too bad and we did some
good work on the car. This afternoon though we had many problems
again on the car and unfortunately we lost quite a lot of
running as we worked on the car in the garage. Looking forward
to tomorrow, I am not very happy about the set-up of the car
as it is just now, so we will work on this tomorrow morning
in the last practice session and hope that we find something
good for Qualifying.”
Sakon Yamamoto
"This is the first time that I have driven on this circuit
and I enjoyed it very much. This morning the track was quite
slippery and the car was hard to drive. Today I was concentrating
on our tyre programme and fortunately the track improved throughout
the afternoon session so I was able to complete a good number
of longer runs for our tyre comparison and collect a lot of
data which I hope will be useful for tomorrow and for the
race.”
Aguri Suzuki, Team Principal
"I think that all three SA05 cars went quite well today
despite both Taku and Franck encountering a number of issues.
Taku’s times are good, very consistent, and all-in-all
we completed everything we wanted to in today’s programme,
so I am reasonably happy with our on track progress and our
start to the Canadian Grand Prix weekend.”
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