Sato rues handling problems
Japanese driver Takuma Sato was downbeat about his qualifying performance after failing to escape the final row of the grid for tomorrow's Turkish Grand Prix
"It is a disappointing result," admitted Sato, slowest today, after being outqualified by his Super Aguri teammate Sakon Yamamoto.
"We had a new front suspension on my car today and this morning we made good progress during the session with only a small issue towards the end.
"In qualifying, however, we had a major chassis related problem which caused me to struggle with the handling and I therefore could not set a good laptime. I have a good feeling from the SA06 from this morning's session, so I hope that we can have a good race tomorrow."
It was the first time Yamamoto, who made his Grand Prix debut in Germany, finished a qualifying session ahead of his teammate.
Yamamoto, however, also found the SA06 harder to drive in qualifying.
"We were unable to find a set-up that would give us a good laptime in the short amount of running that we had, so our times were much slower than those in the morning," said Yamamoto.
"However, I am looking forward to tomorrow and to hopefully finishing my first race with the team in the SA06."
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