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and also notice webber is bottom of the pack. :ninja:

not looking promising for next year.

I wouldn't read to much into the first days testing time (or any testing times at all) Mark's in a car that was designed around Michelin's, and hasn't really had any development work done on it for most of the season as the team was concentrating on next years car. You will probably also find that the engine that they are running (Ferrari's) is a not very good one, as they are changing to Renault next year. He is at least ahead of his team mate.

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Aguri targeting wins ‘by 2008'.

Despite the fact that the team has yet to score a point, never mind finish on the podium, Super Aguri managing director Daniele Audetto says he feels the team could possibly make the step to Grand Prix winners as soon as 2008.

The Japanese team came into F1 at the start of the 2006 campaign running a four-year-old Arrows chassis for Takuma Sato and Yuji Ide but, having been understandably well off the pace in Bahrain, the Honda-supported squad knuckled down to the job at hand and by the season ending Brazilian GP had got to a position where Sato was able to clinch the first top ten finish of Super Aguri's fledgling career.

Into 2007, the team will hope to make further progress with the addition of highly-rated Briton Anthony Davidson to its line-up, but Audetto said it was 2008 when he feels the big steps forward will be made – especially as changing regulations will allow the team to work closer with Honda and possibly even run an off the shelf Honda chassis.

"We want to show the world that we are not losers," he told Reuters. "Now that we have the base of the team, mechanics and engineers, we really want to prove that we can fight for a better position. I think if we are as good as we proved to be with the old car, maybe in 2008 we can be potential winners of one grand prix.

"It's true that the Honda support is very strong and with Sato and Davidson I think we have a very good couple of drivers. But to be in the middle of the grid [next year] is a big, big jump. I think we can achieve that in 2008, when the regulations really change...I think that 2008 will be the year where Super Aguri will really show all the potential.

"The new rules will allow even the small teams to have the same technical support, chassis and aero as the top teams - we can share the same car - and then what will count is the drivers, the racing team, the strategy. Potentially a small team with a very good car, with good drivers and strategy and a little luck could eventually win a grand prix in 2008."

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Testing is on the way!! finally some pointers to 07 form

Considering no one is running the 07 chassis yet, they are only tryign to get their heads around the new tyre construction and perhaps some ancillaries for the next years engines...id say there is nothing to be gained from looking too carefully at the times.

Winter testing is hard to gauge at the best of times, let alone when they dont even have their 07 cars to test

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Come on Duncan - it is the constructors championship that the manufacturers are after. All very well being smug when Takuma wins the drivers championship, but it won't count for anything when Spyker win the constructors now will it?

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