Super Aguri to run Arrows chassis?
23/11/2005 It's understood that Super Aguri - the proposed eleventh team in 2006 - is seriously considering running revised Arrows chassis, most likely fitted with Honda V10 power-plants. Although Paul Stoddart sold the Minardi team, he retained the Arrows' chassis, and, more importantly, the intellectual rights, which he bought a couple of years ago. The A23 was highly rated, though when run in back-to-back to tests with the Minardi PS03 in 2003, the Italian outfit opted to stick with its own chassis. However, included in the package that Stoddart acquired, were the designs for the Mike Coughlan/Sergio Rinland penned A24, which insiders believe could have been something special, had Arrows, or rather team boss, Tom Walkinshaw, been able to ride out the storm which hit the team in 2002. "We are negotiating with them," Stoddart told Reuters, "it's the only thing that makes sense given the time scale that they have got. "It is something that is very, very do-able," he said of the proposal to run the Arrows, "and the car would be able to run in Bahrain. "Any other option is either against the Concorde Agreement or very difficult to achieve," he added. With Super Aguri planning to use the old Arrows factory at Leafield as its European base, the acquisition of the team's old cars would be rather unique. In the days following Stoddart's possession of Arrows equipment, Pitpass editor Chris Balfe, was the first journalist to be shown exactly what the Australian had bought. |
