2006 BRITISH GRAND PRIX – FREE PRACTICE
TAKUMA SATO - Car No: 22 (chassis SA05-05)
FP3 Position 21 No: of Laps 12 Best Lap Time 1:27.525
QUALIFYING Grid Position 20 (pending penalty) Best Lap Time
1:26.158
FRANCK MONTAGNY - Car No: 23 (chassis SA05-02)
FP3 Position 20 No: of Laps 10 Best Lap 1:27.229
QUALIFYING Grid Position 21 Best Lap 1:26.316
T-Car SA05-01
The morning’s Free Practice Session ended prematurely
for the SUPER AGURI F1 TEAM when both Takuma Sato and Franck
Montagny visited the gravel off-track. Takuma drove the third
car (chassis SA05-01) in the afternoon as the damage to his
race car could not be repaired in time for the beginning of
the Qualifying session.
Takuma Sato
“It was a very hard day. During the practice session
I lost it at the high-speed Beckett’s corner and suffered
some quite serious damage to the car. It is disappointing
because we had to change to the T-car, taking a ‘change
of engine’ penalty too. We had very little time to prepare
the T-car for Qualifying, but the boys did a great job to
get it ready in time. The Qualifying session was difficult
because we had not completed the set-up program in the morning
and had to apply the set-up to a different chassis, so the
car had nervous handling. Considering what happened today
I am reasonably happy with our final result, but it will be
a tough race for us tomorrow.”
Franck Montagny
“We had a few problems this morning and I also went
off the track as I was pushing the car to the limit, so not
a great practice session. The Qualifying session was not too
bad; we found what we were looking for and I am quite happy
with my lap. For sure we are a lot slower than the rest of
the grid, but with the new car it will get better.”
Aguri Suzuki, Team Principal
"It was unfortunate that Taku went off the track and
hit the barrier in the morning which meant that we had to
run with the T-car for Qualifying. Franck also left the tarmac,
so we could complete our testing of the Qualifying set-ups
for both cars; today was a very chaotic day. Silverstone is
a high-speed circuit and the differences between the F1 cars’
performances will become very clear and it will also be another
very tough race for us. We will concentrate on our original
goal - to have both cars finish the race tomorrow."
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