Davidson wants anti-stall issue solved

Anthony Davidson has urged Super Aguri to investigate the problems he is having with their anti-stall system, after hitting trouble for the second race running in Malaysia last weekend

Davidson was ahead of teammate Takuma Sato in the early stages of the race but lost out to the Japanese when his anti-stall kicked in as he exited the pits following his pit stop.

That cost him vital seconds as the car bogged down - just as happened at the start of the Australian Grand Prix when he was left stranded on the grid with a similar problem.

Davidson believes his team need to look into the issue as best they can to ensure there is no repeat in Bahrain this weekend.

"The bloody anti-stall kicked in again," said Davidson. "We're really going to have to work on those heat-of-the-moment starts out of the box - it's just too touch-and-go whether it does that for me.

"It's something that I'm apparently doing. The car goes initially and then goes into anti-stall. By then you've lost two or three seconds and that puts you out of sync straight away. That's how I lost that place to Taku."

Although Super Aguri did not match their impressive Melbourne form in Malaysia last weekend, Davidson is confident that they will show better in terms out out-and-out pace at Sakhir.

"Hopefully in Bahrain we'll have a similar balance to the March test when we had a great test," he said. "The degradation was good. We had a good weekend in Melbourne and we think it will be a lot better than it was in Malaysia.

"I'll just keep getting better and better and will relish the chance to fight Taku for the whole race this time."