Struggling Super Aguri will have to wait a few more days to find out whether they have a Formula One future after a meeting with parent Honda on this proved fruitless. The team said talks were continuing and that founder and principal Aguri Suzuki would meet the full Honda board in Tokyo early next week.
Honda have already said they are unwilling to continue supporting the team in addition to their own Honda F1 operation after helping Super Aguri through last weekend’s Spanish GP.
But it appears as though Honda may have played the part of Repo Man, a witness at the Honda F1 factory in Brackley claims to have seen the Super Aguri cars there.
Other teams sent their cars direct from the Circuit de Catalunya to Trieste in northern Italy where they were to board a ferry for Istanbul en route to the Turkish Grand Prix on May 11.
The sea journey takes three days, with the cars then having to be overhauled and presented for scrutineering by the governing FIA at the Istanbul Park on May 8.
Other Formula One sources said Super Aguri’s transporters had gone to Trieste from Barcelona, and a witness in the Italian port said they were there, but without the cars.
The Swiss publication Motorsport Aktuell reports that the Agag-Campos solution may again be on the table.
Super Aguri boss Aguri Suzuki earlier this year engaged in detailed negotiations with Agag and Campos, co-owners of a GP2 team, about the sale of the Honda-supplied squad.
As the financial wrangling continues the team’s drivers, Japan’s Takuma Sato and Britain’s Anthony Davidson, have said they were preparing for the race as usual.
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F1Wolf wrote,
Mr. Weigl is rich, once he gets the green light from Honda (if he gets it) he will fly the cars to Turkey. Not like the poor teams that have to ship them by sea via Trieste
Link | May 4th, 2008 at 5:05 am