Who would like to see Suzuki Aguri replace Nick Fry?

Question

They did better than Honda last year on a fraction of their budget and Honda even tried to withold some parts from them to try and hide that fact.

This year, in Spain, Australia and Bahrain they managed to get at least one of their drivers ahead of the Honda team despite having limited testing time. I think it's time they give Suzuki a shot at running the main team.

Answer 1

I think this had very little to do with Nick Fry or Ross Brawn, this decision would have come from the very top of Honda. As I see this, it wasn't IF Super Aguri folded, it was how big the debts were when it did. It would have been irresponsible for Honda to allow this company to continue doing business knowing it couldn't pay its way. Even now, there will be contractors who will be in serious financial strife because they will have done work or sent stock to them and won't be paid, or paid for quite a while.

I think there were several factors which didn't help: 1) Sato had too many crashes; 2) they weren't a constructor; 3) The publicity around Max Mosley has frightened advertisers.

At the end of the day, there are only two types of company (corporation, church, F1 racing team, household budget, etc): those that run at a profit and those that run at a loss. The first rule of business is income MUST exceed expenditure. It doesn't matter if you are the Enron, Super Aguri, or the local bankrupt, this rule applies to all.

Answer 2

I think Aguri Suzuki is fed-up of the financial element of running an F1 team, and we won't see him back... Super Aguri never seemed like a viable business option really... probably because Honda nannied them for so long... If they had given them the propensity to build their own cars etc. from the beginning, rather than running them as a B-team (which would've come unstuck had they made to 2009)... then they might have seemed more investment worthy...

I think that Nick Fry has always seemed like a bit of a drip, and has never looked like a decent boss...but ultimately it was the Honda big-wigs in Japan who pulled the plug... its a real shame, because despite Aguri being a pretty awful driver, he did so well to get Super Aguri as far up the grid as they've been...

Back to 10 teams :( I preferred it when there was 26 cars on the grid...

Answer 3

Nick Fry has come out as the bad guy, which is rather normal under the circumstances but the guy doesn't deserve it.

It wasn't his decisions and failures that led to the team leaving F1 and his comments made sense.

I guess someone has to be the bad guy and Honda are the big fish and Fry is their "window shop".

It's normal for a small team to do better than a big manufacturer in F1, in order to reach the top you have to take risks and  be innovative and if you go about it the wrong way like Honda did and not the right way like BMW you can fall flat on your face.

Which is exactly what happened to Honda last year.

Super Aguri would never reach the top or sustain good pace.