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Wow, SA did this on "advice" from the FIA. In a way I feel sorry for Ide, he jumped into the deep end of the pool without his water wings.
Now I speculate, if a Japanese team can feel pressure from the FIA to remove a driver, will Sato ever be in the same situation?
I don't think Sato will be in the same position! Sato was driving dangerous before...but to be honoust, he hasn't done anything wrong so far this season!
So I don't think it will happen
Problem is in fact that he didn't lost superlicence and technically speaking if another team would sign him up FIA couldn't do a thing to prevent him from driving.
Well, for now Ide is driving as test and third car driver, to gain experience. It seems SA intends for him to eventually return to the number two seat.
Principessa wrote:...but to be honoust, he hasn't done anything wrong so far this season!
Yeah I have to agree I've been impressed with Sato this season, but for Ide, well he's only been racing for four races and the FIA have given advice to demote Ide to testing duties! Usually its the team who acts first.
Principessa wrote:I don't get that either. Isn't Ide like 32 or so? Why give a chance to such an old driver if there is plenty of young talent around?
i think super aguri wants an all japanese lineup.. and maybe ide brought some sponsorship to the team .. who knows.. if im not mistaken i read somewhere they are goin to test another young japanese driver
ketanpaul wrote:I think SA can rebrand themselves as an Asian team and sign Narain Karthikeyan. He really does deserve more than a stupid 4th driver seat
narain has showed nothing he's there thanks to his sponsors, it's imposible to turn back but i hope in f1 race the best drivers not the best sponsorised
There was something appealing about Narain though. No doubt he tried hard as hell and he really wanted that drive. With Ide I get the impression that this is really just publicity for him. He knows he wasn't hired for his driving and therefore isn't as enthusiastic as he might be. Just my opinion though.
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