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Difficult qualifying for Super Aguri

The Super Aguri team faced a difficult day in Monaco on Saturday. During the morning rain made for a tricky third practice session and although track conditions improved in the afternoon, the qualifying session did not run to plan for the team.

Anthony Davidson had to settle for a 17th position. "As was the case for everybody, we experienced really difficult conditions today," Davidson said. "The Qualifying session was quite frantic and I feel that my side of the garage did a great job in getting the car out there in a good space. It was unfortunate to miss out on not getting a final run in as we wanted to try and complete three runs because it looked like it could rain at any moment. However, I don't feel anyone did anything wrong, so I'm happy with what we did, it was just bad luck."

Takuma Sato qualified in 21st position. He said: "Obviously the morning wet session made it difficult for everybody, but at least we collected good data for running in these conditions. Going into Qualifying, the first outing was just a warm up and then in the second outing I caught some traffic, so I wasn't able to do a relevant quick lap. Then when I came back to the pit to prepare for the last Qualifying lap our timing plan was incorrect and we couldn't make it across the line for a third run, which was very disappointing."

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