By nGO
March 17 2007

Super Aguri stunned F1 by bringing their cars not only passed the first session, but in P10 and P11.

From friday practice there was an early indication that Super Aguri could mix it midfield, but by saturday practice both cars were setting times in the top 10. However, nothing could prepare for the performance shown in qualifying, which was quite frankly shocking.

qualifying 10th with a 1:26.758 Sato praises the team, "What can I say, it was an absolutely fantastic team effort. It was a difficult day again as it was spitting with rain and a set-up change took longer than expected in the practice session so we only completed a few laps. During the whole of Qualifying the team worked well together, building up the car, step-by-step and things just went the right way. I was always going to be very happy if we made it into Q2, but I never imagined that we would reach Q3 - but we did, and it is a great feeling. Obviously this is just the start of the season, and we have a lot of work to do, so for tomorrow we just hope to have a good race."   

Qualifying 11th with a 1:26.909, Davidson is right up there with his team, "It was awesome. I felt really on top of the car and what I did in Free Practice continued on in to Qualifying. I was really enjoying it and then I went off on my first attempt and I lost a little bit of time. On my last run I lost a lot of time in the last corner and I didn't set a good lap, but my next two split times were better than Taku, so I'm happy and generally really pleased for the team, but a little bit frustrated that I set my best time in Free Practice and not Qualifying."