2006 BRITISH GRAND PRIX – PREVIEW
Silverstone, Northamptonshire
The 2006 British Grand Prix, round eight of the 2006 FIA
Formula One™ World Championship, will be the first of
two ‘home races’ for the SUPER AGURI F1 TEAM.
Located in the village of Leafield in the heart of the Oxfordshire
countryside, the SAF1 Team’s operational base is only
a few miles from the historic Silverstone Circuit which has
staged the race since the first British Grand Prix in 1950,
alternating hosting duties with the Brands Hatch circuit between
1963 and 1986.
Takuma Sato
"The British Grand Prix always feels like my second
home race as I used to live in the UK and I have great memories
of driving at Silverstone from my Junior Formulae days. I
very much like the circuit layout; the first part features
high-speed, flowing corners which are really great to drive
and the last section features the tough complex which is also
challenging on the engineering side as it requires good mechanical
grip. The weather always plays a key role at this race, so
I am hoping for a dry, sunny weekend and a good result for
the team."
Franck Montagny
“I am very much looking forward to the British Grand
Prix because it is the home race for the team members who
are based at our factory in Leafield. I think that it will
be a good race, very different from the Grands Prix we have
been to so far for sure. The weather will be a lot colder,
but the atmosphere should be great. We collected a lot of
data during the race in Monaco, much more than we had before,
so I think that it will be cool and we will be able to make
further progress at Silverstone this week.”
Aguri Suzuki, Team Principal
"It was great to see Franck successfully finish our
first race in Monaco last week. We are now back in the UK
and making our final preparations for the British Grand Prix.
Our goal remains the same – to have both SUPER AGURI
F1 TEAM cars finish the race. The team has been working extremely
hard ahead of one of our home grands prix this week and we
would very much like to do well at Silverstone.”
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