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May 3 2006

Super Aguri will be looking to put their San Marino performance behind them as they head towards the Nurburgring. With new aero updates, a new spec tire to test and a third car running for the first time, Super Aguri hope for improvements.

Nurburgring is a circuit where Sato has always managed to find some speed, having qualified on the front row and was a contender for the podium here in the past. Now Sato and Super Aguri arrive at the European Grand Prix with a different sort of challenge. Ide has been studying hard hoping for a solid race to redeem himself and make it to the end of the season. Joining them on the track for the first time will be Montagny in the third car, which will hopefully lead to more data and additional feedback proving useful for both the race and development.

Sato hopes New aero updates and Bridgestone tires gives him a boost  "I enjoy racing at the Nürburgring mainly because of the layout – it is a challenging circuit with flowing high-speed corners and an undulating track. I have special memories of driving here, not only from F1, but also from my Junior Formula days. At the European Grand Prix we will be testing the latest spec of Bridgestone tyre and an aero update package that we hope will help us in the medium to high-speed corners that require a lot of downforce and good car balance. The race is earlier in the season this year so we are unsure of how the weather will affect us, but the Nürburgring is a great circuit and always produces an exciting race so we are waiting for the weekend to arrive and to be back on-track again."

Ide feels bad for Albers, but has been studying hard and will be looking for an improvement this weekend, "Firstly, I would like to apologise again to Christian for what happened in Imola and I very much hope that he is ok. I am new to Formula One and have had very little running in the car, so I have been trying to drive safely and to improve with every race. For the European Grand Prix I have been studying the Nürburgring circuit very closely by watching videos of the past races and learning the race lines. I am looking forward to the race and hopefully will be able to show some improvements."

Aguri Suzuki believes the third car will be very beneficial for the team in terms of development and feedback, "As most people know, we have been busy preparing our new car, the SA06. As a result it would have been very hard for us to test last week with our limited resources, so we have decided to run a third car with Franck Montagny in Germany in order to collect more the data from SA05. We are happy to have Franck back with the team as his experience and knowledge will be of great help in addition to the valuable information fed back to us from Takuma and Yuji. SUPER AGURI F1 TEAM will have a new aero package and Bridgestone tyres to test at the European Grand Prix, so we are looking forward to another challenging weekend."