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[jemstride]

Aguri to launch new car in March  

Aguri head into the new season looking for their first F1 point
Super Aguri will officially unveil their new car just six days ahead of the opening Formula One Grand Prix of the 2007 season in Australia.
The SA07, which will be driven by Briton Anthony Davidson and Japanese star Takuma Sato, will be launched in Tokyo on 12 March.

Toro Rosso are the only F1 outfit yet to announce their plans.

Super Aguri joined the F1 grid as the 11th team last year and failed to score a point in their debut season.
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sorry to get your hopes up guys!

[Wez]

They might as well just launch it at free practice 1 in Melbourne... Either way no one is really gonna take much notice.

[bathurst1000]

Wez, on Feb 2 2007, 07:20 PM, said:

They might as well just launch it at free practice 1 in Melbourne... Either way no one is really gonna take much notice.

they could launch it right into the ocean for all i care

[TripleR]

jemstride, on Feb 2 2007, 12:13 PM, said:

Toro Rosso are the only F1 outfit yet to announce their plans.

Toro Rosso will have their car launched on mid-february unknown exact day ...

About aguri and Toro Rosso what are we expecting ? an 2006 Honda car and a RB3 with some updates only !

[JayStorm]

Well I would take a bit more notice if I didn't think they were going to keep the car looking, and probably driving exactly the same.

[Autumnpuma]

I know it's fun to throw tomatoes at Suzuki's little team, but they did a good job in '06 for a small team using an outdated chassis.

[Player(1)]

Autumnpuma, on Feb 2 2007, 08:43 PM, said:

I know it's fun to throw tomatoes at Suzuki's little team, but they did a good job in '06 for a small team using an outdated chassis.

Agreeded which is why the only interest I can think of with their 2007 car will be if its the Honda's 2007 or 2006 car, other then that I'm more interested in what they do on the track then the details of thie car because they wont be on the cutting edge.
Won't see anything new or interesting with customer chassis so no brew-ha-ha about them.

Edited by Player(1), 02 February 2007 - 10:53 PM.

[monza gorilla]

Autumnpuma, on Feb 2 2007, 08:43 PM, said:

I know it's fun to throw tomatoes at Suzuki's little team, but they did a good job in '06 for a small team using an outdated chassis.

Agreed. Not fashionable to say this but I think Aguri San means to stick around. I applaud what he's done so far.

[aussief1]

TripleR, on Feb 2 2007, 07:19 PM, said:

Toro Rosso will have their car launched on mid-february unknown exact day ...

About aguri and Toro Rosso what are we expecting ? an 2006 Honda car and a RB3 with some updates only !

Sadly yes

Autumnpuma, on Feb 3 2007, 06:43 AM, said:

I know it's fun to throw tomatoes at Suzuki's little team, but they did a good job in '06 for a small team using an outdated chassis.

Agree, at least they are likely going to use last years Honda and not the new RA107. Which makes me think, Mr. Suzuki must have been shown the design of the RA107 and said stuff buying the rights to that bucket of bolts, I'll place an order for two RA106 please Mr. Fry. Or Mr Rye if you imagine him saying that in a Japanese accent

[Autumnpuma]

aussief1, on Feb 2 2007, 05:15 PM, said:

Sadly yes
Agree, at least they are likely going to use last years Honda and not the new RA107. Which makes me think, Mr. Suzuki must have been shown the design of the RA107 and said stuff buying the rights to that bucket of bolts, I'll place an order for two RA106 please Mr. Fry. Or Mr Rye if you imagine him saying that in a Japanese accent

I agree with you.

[aussief1]

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Super Aguri's plans to launch its 2007 car before the Australian Grand Prix rests on a repeat this week of the FIA's mandatory crash tests.

The Japanese team's contender, the SA07 - which is a development of Honda's works 2006 car - apparently failed the tougher rear impact tests, and possibly the side crash tests, one month ago, days before announcing that the new car would only be unveiled in Tokyo on March 12.

It is understood that the car features modifications to the sides of the c#ckpit and the rear structure, principally to adhere to the more stringent FIA tests.  


It is already being suggested that the news might precede Super Aguri using its 'interim' test car in Australia, as the Leafield based team fends off the legal threats of Spyker and Williams amid the 'customer car' furore.

The interim car is near identical in appearance to the 2006 Honda RA106 chassis.

Source: Super Aguri to race interim chassis

[JayStorm]

Sure are leaving it late though.

What I expected though, not too much improvement on last year but let's hope that it's enough to get a point.

[ykickamoocow]

Here are the first photo's of the Super Aguri

[ykickamoocow]

Ive got some more photo's but from the reaction to them so far im not sure anybody cares







I personally think the car looks quite nice.

[Quiet One]

ykickamoocow, on Mar 14 2007, 08:37 AM, said:

Ive got some more photo's but from the reaction to them so far im not sure anybody cares







I personally think the car looks quite nice.

I care and yes it does!

[c21]

Quiet One, on Mar 14 2007, 10:36 AM, said:

I care and yes it does!

It looks like an old Footwork.

[Sato]

It does look nice, and somewhat different to what I was expecting.

Of course I'd care, since my #2 driver is in the team

[pumpdoc]

Good looking car, to bad they have so little time to sort it out.

[jemstride]

it looks nice, Honda should've used that livery last year!

i prefer the more fancy patterns Super Aguri used last year though

[F1 FANatic]

It is a good looking car but I still dont like the fact they and STR are just bumming a ride from other teams. It defeats the whole perpous of the rules. In the 60's and 70's you were allowed to buy cars, now you arn't

[Shane2]

I think the '06 car looked nicer. That just reminds me of toyota too much

[c21]

jemstride, on Mar 14 2007, 03:09 PM, said:

it looks nice, Honda should've used that livery last year!
i prefer the more fancy patterns Super Aguri used last year though

Honda should use that livery this year!

[goferrarigo]

I think this livery looks very close to the toyota.. it does look pretty decent though.

[bathurst1000]

i liked the old livery this one is s##t!

sill looks like the old honda except for the nosecone, s##t!

[jemstride]

F1 FANatic, on Mar 14 2007, 02:33 PM, said:

It is a good looking car but I still dont like the fact they and STR are just bumming a ride from other teams. It defeats the whole perpous of the rules. In the 60's and 70's you were allowed to buy cars, now you arn't

i agree with you (and Frank Williams), all teams should have to design their own chassis. What are they competing for by entering someone elses's design? Its not fair

[Shane2]

The whole basis of F1 is that it is a competition to pit the world's best designers against each other. Now it seems to have became more and more, an exercise of having as many sponsorship logos circulating as possible so that bernie can make a few more million bucks that hes never gonna spend in the short time he has left

[jemstride]

yes i agree

[David Adams]

Shane2, on Mar 15 2007, 02:31 PM, said:

The whole basis of F1 is that it is a competition to pit the world's best designers against each other. Now it seems to have became more and more, an exercise of having as many sponsorship logos circulating as possible so that bernie can make a few more million bucks that hes never gonna spend in the short time he has left

I thought F1 was all about making cars slower? I think someone needs to tell the FIA thats not the case

[Shane2]

Someone should lol because it is getting very stupid. Just bring back slicks and V10's and see some real speed

The joke is that the cars get tremendous grip on slicks, the steps the FIA took to slow the cars down with grooves was what made them more unsafe

[JayStorm]

All of it's pretty ok.

Prefered last year's I think but all round, quite happy.

Cool pictures.