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Monday, 31st July 2006

Having admitted prior to the race debut of the new SA06 that completing a race distance could prove tricky, Super Aguri's fears were confirmed when both Takuma Sato and Sakon Yamamoto failed to finish the German Grand Prix.

“In the end I had a gearbox related oil issue so I had to retire from the race, but because this is a new car it is not really surprising that we encountered some kind of problem. Although it was obviously a disappointing race today, overall it was a good weekend for us, not easy, but definitely a good weekend.”

Despite the double retirement, Aguri Suzuki was also satisfied with the performance of the SA06, particularly as it has yet to experience any serious developmental work.

“I am very sorry that Sakon was unable to compete in his first race with the team today. He showed encouraging progress in the SA06 all weekend so I hope that he will have a good Grand Prix in Hungary. Taku did a good job here today - he was competitive and showed that he was able to fight with the Midland's, but unfortunately he suffered with an oil leak.

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“Even with our result today I am happy with the SA06's first outing because we were not been able to test the car before this race and I think that we have made an encouraging start.”

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