SAF1 TEAM 2007 TURKISH GRAND PRIX – FREE PRACTICE
TAKUMA SATO Car 22 (SA07-02)
FP1 Position 17 Fastest Lap Time 1:30.624
FP2 Position 16 Fastest Lap Time 1:30.104
ANTHONY DAVIDSON Car 23 (SA07-03)
FP1 Position 12 Fastest Lap Time 1:30.384
FP2 Position 18 Fastest Lap Time 1:30.530
T-Car SA07-04
Weather Hot and humid (27.4%-66.2% humidity)
Air Temperature 30.0oC minimum, 36.2oC maximum
Track Temperature 33.3oC minimum, 55.1oC maximum
SUPER AGURI F1 TEAM race drivers Takuma Sato and Anthony
Davidson made an encouraging start to the 2007 Turkish Grand
Prix weekend, with both drivers completing their respective
planned test programmes. Anthony’s afternoon running
was brought to a halt at the end of the session following
a coming together with the barrier at Turn 3, however both
drivers were reasonably happy with the balance of their SA07’s
at the end of play today.
Takuma Sato
“I am very glad to be back racing after the summer
break. The team is upbeat and looking forward to the second
half of the season, especially after our last race in Budapest
where, towards the end, our pace was strong, so we have a
very positive attitude here in Istanbul. Of course everybody
else has made progress aswell as us, but we need to find more
speed. However, I think it was a very good day. We completed
the normal tyre comparisons, even though we were interrupted
by the Red Flag, and I am reasonably happy with the car balance.”
Anthony Davidson
“It was a difficult day and we found it hard to find
a good car balance in these windy conditions. We struggled
at the beginning of the first session, but we made some set-up
changes and were making good progress towards the end with
a reasonably competitive lap time. In the second session we
were facing similar problems as we had experienced in the
morning, and then we had the drain cover incident and the
track took a while to come back to a good grip level again.
After setting a competitive time on the prime tyre, we went
out for an option tyre run at the end of the afternoon and
unfortunately I made a mistake going into Turn 3, ran wide
and touched the barrier. I am comfortable on where we are
with first lap performance at the moment, so I am looking
forward to Qualifying tomorrow.”
Graham Taylor, Sporting Director
“Hot and tough. With a dusty circuit at the beginning
of the day, we waited for quite a long time before going out
on track. We obtained some decent information from this morning's
run, but the Red Flag this afternoon compromised a proportion
of our information gathering exercises and Anthony's ‘off’
towards the end will also rob us of a little data. However,
Taku seems to have got on well with the car and I believe
that we have gathered enough from today to benefit us tomorrow.”
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