SAF1 TEAM 2007 BRITISH GRAND PRIX – FREE PRACTICE
& QUALIFYING
TAKUMA SATO Car 22 (SA07-04)
FP3 Position 20 Fastest Lap Time 1:21.745
QUALIFYING Grid Position 21 Lap Time 1:22.045
ANTHONY DAVIDSON Car 23 (SA07-03)
FP3 Position 10 Fastest Lap Time 1:20.915
QUALIFYING Grid Position 19 Lap Time 1:21.448
T-Car SA07-02
Weather Warm with a clear sky (39.6%-64.4% humidity)
Air Temperature 19.1°C minimum, 23.6°C maximum
Track Temperature 28.8°C minimum, 47.0°C maximum
SUPER AGURI F1 TEAM experienced a difficult day. Anthony
set a good fastest lap time during the morning’s third
Free Practice session, however pace and luck were not on the
team’s side for this afternoon’s Qualifying.
Takuma Sato
“We need to find out what was wrong with the car. It
was not performing well and I never got comfortable grip or
stability. It is disappointing as yesterday we made some progress
and this morning we tried to improve the performance again
for Qualifying, but the speed was not there. On my final lap
I was trapped by the Yellow Flag, so I could not improve on
my lap time, so I am disappointed.”
Anthony Davidson
“It was obviously a disappointing Qualifying session.
It was always going to be tough trying to get into Q2 today.
The car again did not quite have the speed like we saw in
Magny-Cours, but I was confident that I could have pulled
something out of the bag, until the last run, when I came
out in a sea of traffic ahead of me on the opening of my lap
as they came out of the pits, so I decided to abort the lap.
I tried to find a good space and get a bit more heat into
the rear tyres, but basically I overcooked it coming out of
Brooklands, trying to get as much force into the tyres as
possible and the car snapped on me. I still believe that we
have a better race car than Qualifying and you never know,
the British weather can be unpredictable, so I am looking
forward to my first British Grand Prix tomorrow.”
Graham Taylor, Sporting Director
“Poor. It’s been getting tighter and tighter
all year. This is one of the bigger circuits, so you’d
think that there would be a bit more latitude, but there wasn’t.
Our cars did not have the performance today and again our
Qualifying session was not error free.”
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