Apr.22 (GMM) The entire Super Aguri team, including all the transporters and the race cars, has been dispatched to the Barcelona circuit, it has emerged.
Despite continuing uncertainty about the financial survival of the Japanese outfit, including the question of whether the team will even race this weekend, frantic activity is still going on behind the scenes -- including the preparation of the team's facilities and pits at the Circuit de Catalunya.
The German magazine Auto Motor und Sport claims that, after the recent withdrawal of the Magma Group's planned Dubai backing, talks with the Leafield operation have been on again.
The outcome is not yet known, but it is clear that Honda - Super Aguri's main hope of staying afloat at least in the coming days - wants written guarantees from an investor before the team is given the green light to even practice in Spain.
The Swiss publication Motorsport Aktuell reported that the Super Aguri sale was complicated by the emergence on the market of Dietrich Mateschitz's 50 per cent Toro Rosso share.
It also emerges that the team's managing director Daniele Audetto is back in the frame at Super Aguri, despite his absence from the races so far in 2008.
Written: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:50:28
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