Data from Super Aguri F1

Day 1 

Date: 19 June 2007
Duration of test: 3 days
Driver Day 1: James Rossiter
Chassis: SA07-05
No. of Laps: 76
Best Lap Time: 1:20.926
Weather: Warm and sunny
Temperatures: Air: 22-27°C, Track: 27-41°C

The conditions for the Spanish test were warm and dry throughout. James Rossiter had to find lots more grip today as the track was quite greasy from a bike race before him. The british driver reported that he found reasonable balance as the track slowly improved for him. Today he ran various chasis set ups and completed 76 laps and had nothing major worrying to report to the team.

Day 2

Date: 20 June 2007
Duration of test: 3 days
Driver Day 1: James Rossiter
Chassis: SA07-05
No. of Laps: 66
Best Lap Time: 1:20. 96.
Weather: Warm and sunny
Temperatures: Air: 30 °C, Track: 42°C

James Rossiter continuted to hold the reins for the Super Aguri F1 teams spanish test at day 2 where the track and air temparture were hotter than yesturday while rain hit the Silverstone test. Rossiter focused on control systems and tuning and development and in the afternoon he focused on rear suspension and completed 66 laps. Anthony Davidson is expected to take over for tommorows test.

Date: 21 June 2007
Duration of test: 3 days
Driver Day 1: Anthony Davidson
Chassis: SA07-05
No. of Laps: 78
Best Lap Time: 1:20.45
Weather: Warm and clear sky
Temperatures: Air: 18-27°C, Track: 24-41°C

TOTAL TEST LAPS: 220
TOTAL TEST KILOMETRES:962
BEST SAF1 TEAM LAP TIME: Anthony Davidson, Day 3, 1:20.45

Anthony Davidson took the SA07 out for a spin on the last day of testing focusing on engine mapping in the morning and improving his race starts. In the afternoon he continued set up work and completed 78 laps. Continuing the posative theme the SA07 didnt have 1 problem during the 3 day test giving the team very useful data.

James Rossiter

"It was a very good week in Jerez. For the two days that I was driving we worked on car set-up for Magny-Cours and to further our understanding of the Bridgestone tyres. The car balance was good and the longer runs went well. We also worked on optimising traction control with the Bridgestone engineers."

Anthony Davidson

"We have had perfect weather for testing and it was good to be back at the Jerez circuit again as I have not driven here for a while. I could feel the improvement made on the car since the winter, which is always positive. Today we worked mainly on traction control and some set-up work to give us better performance on long runs. I am happy with the work achieved today and am looking forward to the French Grand Prix next week."

Graham Taylor, Sporting Director

"We have had a good three days with the both drivers able to complete their workloads and, as always, we concentrated on ‘quality not quantity’ with the car running reliably. The lovely Spanish weather allowed for progress to be made with both the Honda power-train and Bridgestone Potenza tyres."

The unofficial Super Aguri F1 team would like to apologise for the lack of US GP coverage and this was down to technical issues. Hopefully you like the new site graphics produced for us by Bill Baxter our graphics designer from Syco Designs.

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