Honda’s chief executive won’t be sad to see back of Suzuki’s team

Nick Fry (above left, with Jenson Button) never hid his scepticism towards Super Aguri. He said at the Spanish GP:

“Honda have given Super Aguri every available bit of support over and above what was anticipated… We tried to help as much as possible and Honda never intended to fund two F1 teams. We’ve gone way beyond what was ever originally anticipated. Now Aguri [Suzuki, the team’s owner] has got to find some money.”

But even when Super Aguri did manage to secure some backing, from Germany’s Weigl Group, Fry remained surprisingly vocal in his implicit criticism of the second-string Honda outfit. Fry said:

“It would appear unlikely that a company the size of Weigl is able to support a competitive Formula One team, unless of course there are other partners of which we have not been made aware.”

Well, there were no other partners, and so Super Aguri is no more. Fry will be a happy man, but, as Aguri himself points out, why did he feel the need to speak up so much – it was as if he viewed SA as nothing but a burden and drain on resources, an unfair viewpoint. Aguri countered with a parting shot aimed at Fry:

“I don’t understand how suddenly Nick Fry needs to be commenting on everything… Honda were our backers and he’s not the CEO of Honda. I have no interest in Nick Fry whatsoever, and have no idea what he was talking about.”

It makes you wonder if Fry had any say in the decision by Honda to disassociate itself from Aguri.