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This week, on Super Aguri's future, and is it too early for optimism?
Super Aguri's future
One of the strangest stories doing the rounds in the Catalunya paddock concerned Super Aguri.
More precisely, it concerned the possible implosion of the all-Japanese dream, which had its beginnings in the period immediately after last year's Japanese Grand Prix, when it became clear to fans of Takuma Sato that Honda's 2006 line-up of Jenson Button, Rubens Barrichello and Anthony Davidson meant Sato - only the second Japanese to record a podium - was out of a drive come 2006.
The jury is still out as to whether the hurried formation of Super Aguri F1 was a direct consequence of the remorseless backlash inflicted upon Honda in its base country by "Satorites", or whether the timing was purely co-incidental.
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