Citing it as being perhaps the best chance to score this year, Colin Kolles called the race a missed opportunity when Sutil punched the circuit’s infamous walls, while Albers innocuous looking wide run across the grass at turn eight destroyed the front of his car.
Nonetheless, the team are putting Canada behind them and are looking ahead to Indianapolis where they are hoping to display some of the race pace that has seen them prove somewhat more competitive in recent races. Most importantly though, Colin Kolles wants to see them show it all the way to the finish.
“I think that is very obvious, to get two cars to the finish without making any mistakes,” said Colin Kolles. “We never forget that we are not here to lap around at the back, we do want to move forward, but the only way we can move forward is to set good foundations and build on them.”
“Our straightline speeds in Canada were pretty good, and we genuinely had our most competitive weekend,” Mike Gascoyne added. “Again, Indy is a low downforce track. In P3 and Q1 in Canada we were two seconds off the front, and we were 21st and 22nd!
“There are plenty of times in the past when you would have been 11th and 12th. So we’ll just keep doing our job, and the good thing is if we can make the car half a second or a second quicker, then we’ll be right in the hunt.
Super Aguri F1 – Takuma Sato (#22), Anthony Davidson (#23):
Even Alonso’s hardened fans must have cocked a wry smile at the way Takuma Sato rather audaciously overtook the reigning champion in the latter stages of the Canadian Grand Prix on the way to sixth place.
Indeed, while Super Aguri’s pace this year means we are used to seeing them challenge in the mid-field now, it is still a sight to behold when Sato works his way up to sixth from ninth in the final few laps just a year after they were finishing some three laps behind the leaders.
