By SA07
May 16 2007

At a mixed Spanish Grand Prix which saw reigning world champion Fernando Alonso attack Massa at the start of the race and lose out to the gravel trap and a Ferrari retirement. Leafields little team Super Aguri had a tight race scoring there first points ever at Renaults expense. The SA07 was very competative and kept in touch with Renault and other teams.

While the battle between Massa Hamilton and Alonso raged on for 1st the battle for 7th and 8th was raging also. At first it looked like we were going to settle for 10th but Renaults misfortune played music to our ears as Takuma Sato brought the SA07 home in 8th place while Davidson had a much quieter race in 11th place

Takuma Sato
"Just an amazing weekend, a truly great performance from the team. I don't have the words really….. just one year plus four races, scoring one point in a head-to-head straight fight….beating Renault and grabbing the point. I just never expected this result, I'm really deeply proud of the work the team has done back in Leafield and all the team at Honda Tochigi, our sponsors, fans, families, all the people who support us. I just cannot describe how happy we are and a point means much more than anything else for us and this is an absolutely fantastic result. It was a tough race and especially through the first two stints. I was struggling a little with the pace, but I just kept on going and never gave up until the last stint when the car came back on a good balance and I was able to drive really hard. I was fighting with Giancarlo but I could not see him ahead of me and my race engineer kept saying "we're fighting with Renault" and I just put my foot down. When I saw Giancarlo coming down the pitlane and I was a fraction ahead of him, it was just fantastic. Well done everybody."

Anthony Davidson
"It is a great result for the team today. It is really good to score our first point; it's what we were all working for from the word go this year and we knew it was going to be really tough, but we got there. So onwards and upwards and next time hopefully it will be me!"

Aguri Suzuki, Team Principal
"The team did a perfect job today. We were lucky, but the drivers and team maintained our very good positions through out the race and the first Championship point is very important for us."