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Sato still revelling in Canada glory

Takuma Sato has been revelling in plenty of glory following his daring drive at the Canadian Grand Prix. Sato went on a charge in the closing laps pulling daring moves on Ralf Schumacher and reigning champion Fernando Alonso.

"Montreal is difficult but nothing is impossible," Sato told reporters at Indianapolis. "I think overtaking after a long straight, heavy braking is possible but obviously you need to get a good exit out of the corner before. Not only that, you need a good car under braking and stability. Obviously, when I was battling with Fernando, his car had very good speed down the straight and at one stage he pulled away, even though I got a big tow, and that was quite surprising to see. But at the end of the straight I had the opportunity to go side by side, braking late and I was confident. I was totally controlled and comfortable because the one thing in the last race that affected everybody was the marbles, because the situation with tyres or strategy was unusual, so trying not to make any error was extremely important, so we had to figure out how to do it but I'm very pleased that we handled it very well."

Looking ahead to this weekend's US Grand Prix, where Sato has finished on the podium before he said, "I have great memories of Indianapolis. It's such a nice feeling, there's such a great momentum from last week and two consecutive races are always logistically difficult but from a driver's point of view, it's nice to have a race again straight away. I think it's going to be incredibly difficult to repeat what happened in Canada but I'm confident that our team prepares the best we can and hopefully we will have a strong weekend."

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