By nGO
September 29 2006

A tale of two halves as Montagny storms the timesheets reaching 7th, while Sato and Yamamoto suffer from reliabilty issues.

A mix day for Super Aguri, clearly there is some pace in the SA06 as demonstrated by Montagny. The problem is that neither Yamamoto or Sato had a good run, both suffering from technical issues during the course of the day stopping them from doing some important work.

This weekend looks like it will be another tough race and Super Aguri will have their work cut out to get things back on track.

Friday woes for Sato, "Unfortunately today my running was very limited due to a gearbox problem. It seems that every outing I suffered some related issue and so I couldn't evaluate the car set-up much today. This morning the car worked well straight away, but this afternoon I only completed a few laps, so it was not a very good day. The session tomorrow morning will therefore be extremely important, so let's hope we have a better day tomorrow."

The right setup eludes Yamamoto, "We had a hydraulic problem with my SA06 this morning so we did not have much time on the circuit and I was only able to complete eight laps. But I pushed quite hard during this session as I wanted to get to know the car and circuit better. Although we did not have any problems in the afternoon I did not feel very comfortable with the car and so I didn't have the chance to find a set-up I was happy with. Franck did a good job, so we will compare data and speak to the engineers about how we can improve on this situation for tomorrow."

Overall a good day for Aguri, "Franck did a very good job to finish in seventh position today, so I am very happy with that. Taku's car had a gearbox issue so we have to find a solution to this problem as soon as possible. Sakon's car had a hydraulic problem in the morning, but was able to have a good session this afternoon and complete quite a few laps today. We have collected quite a bit of data from the car today so overall we have had quite a good Friday."