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Sato hopes for wet home race

Takuma Sato is happy to be on home ground and enjoying the support from his loyal Japanese fans at this weekend's Grand Prix at Fuji. However as much of the field worries over a high probability of rain on Sunday, Sato is one hoping it will be a wet race.

When asked if he'd like the race to be wet Sato replied, "Very much so because looking at the test I think our performance wasn't as strong as we wanted it to be, and coming back to Japan, we wanted to be very competitive but somehow it's obviously very difficult because it's such a small team. The development speed wasn't as good as other teams, so we have to do something, tweaks, whatever we can do and an example was the Canadian Grand Prix."

"Before we went to Montreal, really nobody - not even us - were expecting to have such an exciting race and why not here?" asked Sato. "I think everything is open but looking realistically, it's going to be a very very tough race for us, so we need something, a little change - that always gets us into an exciting situation."

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