Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Super Aguri A Go Go?
Super Aguri have allegedly announced their withdrawal from Formula 1. Are you sad about this? Someone more knowledgeable than me about such topics (Alex?) will hopefully help us out here, but wasn't the team created merely because of the backlash Honda received in Japan after they fired Sato? I believe people were refusing to buy Honda road cars in protest. Honda then effectively created a team just for Sato. Is that the kind of team we want in Formula 1? Even if this, or worse, is true, however, I myself can't help loving Super Aguri. They did amazingly well with what they had, and supplied us with one of the greatest moments of last year, if not the last few years, when Sato overtook Alonso in Canada. We have to look now, however, at who might buy the team. Prodrive?
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I'm with you Nick, it's a damn shame. I miss the passion we used to get with the privately owned teams, standing toe to toe (or tyre to tyre) with the big boys. The sport needs people like Tom Walkinshaw and Eddie Jordan - love those guys for their fearless honesty and sheer bloody mindedness at times! But if they couldn't hack the politics and ganging up antics of the bigger teams, not to mention the financial pressures, then I'm afraid Suzuki Aguri didn't stand a chance - too nice.
Yes that's exactly why it happened. Their demise is a terrible shame in many ways. I loved their gung ho spirit.
Just for a bit of a summary background. Honda had a deal on the table for a company to buy out Super Aguri but turned them down. The company was willing to take on the continuing costs of running Super Aguri for the rest of the year but Honda wanted paid back to them the loans from the past 3 years immediately.
Prodrive are unlikely to buy the team as they won't be able to run a customer chassis.
Prodrive are unlikely to buy the team as they won't be able to run a customer chassis.
Interestingly:
"News of the team's demise was received in Japan today by protestors carrying Super Aguri flags gathering outside Honda's headquarters in Aoyama, demonstrating against the manufacturer's refusal to continue to support the outfit, and their hero Sato."
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"News of the team's demise was received in Japan today by protestors carrying Super Aguri flags gathering outside Honda's headquarters in Aoyama, demonstrating against the manufacturer's refusal to continue to support the outfit, and their hero Sato."
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