SAF1 TEAM 2007 HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX – FREE PRACTICE
& QUALIFYING
TAKUMA SATO Car 22 (SA07-02)
FP3 Position 15 Fastest Lap Time 1:21.839
QUALIFYING Grid Position 19 Lap Times 1:22.143 Q1
ANTHONY DAVIDSON Car 23 (SA07-03)
FP3 Position 11 Fastest Lap Time 1:21.501
QUALIFYING Grid Position 15 Lap Times 1:21.018 Q1; 1:21.127
Q2
T-Car SA07-04
Weather Warm with a clear sky (27.5%-42.2% humidity)
Air Temperature 24.1°C minimum, 27.0°C maximum
Track Temperature 27.1°C minimum, 41.1°C maximum
SUPER AGURI F1 TEAM driver Anthony Davidson once again made
it through to the second session for today’s Qualifying
at the Hungaroring. Takuma’s chances were foiled by
a long visit to the weighbridge during Q1, however the pair
will start the 2007 Hungarian Grand Prix in 11th and 15th
positions tomorrow.
Takuma Sato
“It was a tough Qualifying. We planned to do three
runs. The first one was to check the car from the practice
because I wasn’t really happy with the balance, so we
wanted to check the car with the prime tyre. I then got called
to the weighbridge, which took an unusually long time because
when I had to go back into position to fire up the marshals
put me in the wrong position, so I had to back up again. So
we then lost the opportunity to go for the first planned option
tyre run, so I only had one opportunity in the end with the
proper Qualifying fuel on board. It was a decent lap, but
then unfortunately it was quite gusty and the wind upset the
balance of the car and I had a massive wash out and ran wide.
Hopefully though the car is performing well and so I hope
that we can have a good race tomorrow.”
Anthony Davidson
“It was a very good day. I feel that I got the best
out of the car and with the engineering team I feel that we
managed to find a good Qualifying set-up, which is obviously
vital around this circuit. The car had a nice balance all
the way round and I was comfortably through to Q2 and looking
forward to improving my position in the second session. Unfortunately
I could only match the time that I set at the end of Q1 and
15th was the most the car had in it today, so I’m happy
with our performance.”
Graham Taylor, Sporting Director
“I think that we had a good session in Free Practice
3. We were watching the weather all the time, as I'm sure
everybody was, and the predicted rain didn't materialise.
We took an aggressive strategy, from a Qualifying point of
view; we knew we had to. We thought that we had the pace to
get through to Q2. Anthony did a fantastic second lap in his
Q1 run and unfortunately the weighbridge delayed us a little
with Takuma. We therefore had to change our plan with him
and unfortunately he ran out of road in the last sector, otherwise
he'd have been comfortably through to the next session as
well. The conclusion is really ‘optimising’ one
and ‘a bit of a shame’ with the other.”
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