By nGO
May 12 2006

This morning began with a wet practice session although the weather improved later on. Super Aguri complete their planned program, Sato finds speed and is happy with the Balance of the car while Montagny suffers from technical issues and struggles to find a good set up.

In the morning session few cars ventured on to a greasy track to do any serious running, Sato completing only 9 laps and Montagny suffering from a hydraulics failure. The afternoon weather was much Improved with Sato completing 30 laps setting a best time of 1:19.616. Montagny was less happy with the car struggling to find a good setup, he completed 21 laps in the second session setting a best time of 1:22.222.

Sato encouraged by friday, "We did not do much running this morning due to the weather conditions, but towards the end of that session and by the end of the second session we had completed our full programme. We did some performance runs and it was encouraging to see that the balance of the car has improved and that the lap time and speed was much better, so we are happy with what we have been able to achieve today."

Montagny will be hoping for an improved setup tommorow, “It was a very difficult day for me. This morning I completed only three laps because we had a hydraulic problem. This afternoon we did not find a good set-up for the car; it was very difficult to control, a lot of snap oversteer and many more issues. I do believe that we will find something right as Taku is fast here, but I think that we have a hard weekend coming."

Aguri concerned with the reliabilty, "We haven't been lucky since we came back to Europe but we need to solve the problem as soon as we can. The team has been working so hard to improve the speed of the car and the motivation within the team is amazingly high. I am little concerned about the problems we have been having, but I am sure that we will be able to solve these issues come the race on Sunday."