Super Aguri suggest Spyker should protest

As autosport.com reported yesterday, Spyker have written to the FIA to try and get them to look into new updates that appeared on Super Aguri's SA07 at the United States Grand Prix. The team feel that Aguri may be receiving current Honda Racing parts.

Although the document that contains photographic comparisons between the Aguri and Honda cars has also been sent to Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone and all the other teams on the grid, Super Aguri say they are unmoved by the latest action.

Managing director Daniel Audetto thinks that his rivals should go through the official channels if they are so unhappy.

"Why don't they just protest?" he told autosport.com. "We have rules - they can just protest. Tell them to protest - if I have something to complain about, I will make a protest. So why all this noise and complaint?"

Audetto insisted that his team were doing nothing wrong, and although he conceded that parts of various cars may look similar he was sure that his team were not running the same bits as Honda.

"Of course the parts aren't the same - we are within the rules 110 per cent," he said. "And if they don't think we are, they have to protest. What more can I say?

"They may look the same, but take the 22 cars in F1 and they all look the same. The rules are so restrictive. If you take the wings or spoiler - how many look alike?"