The Weekly Grapevine
This week, a look at the new Super Aguri F1 team, and their chances of racing in 2006
Suzuki and the Reality of Racing in 2006
Aguri Suzuki's third place in the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix may have been the crowning glory of a Formula One career which delivered less than it promised, but the Japanese - until Taku Sato's third place in last year's US Grand Prix, the only driver from the Asian country to stand on a podium - faces the race of his life if he is to get his Super Aguri Formula One team off the ground in time for 2006's opening race in Bahrain on 12 March.
Alluded to in the build-up to his home race, the former Lola, Zakspeed and Arrows driver's plans were treated with scepticism by a press who saw the Honda-linked rumours as a convenient let-off for a BAR-Honda embattled after announcing the sacking of Sato. After all, what better way of silencing partisan critics than the announcement of a second Honda-powered team, one with a home-grown flavour and aiming to employ Sato, to boot?
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