`It is not as rigid as a current car`
Japan`s Takuma Sato has warned fans to play down their expectations ahead of his Super Aguri debut this weekend.
The 28-year-old suggested that the SA05 racer - a minor development of defunct Arrows` 2002 car - will be significantly off the leading pace, especially in quicker bends.

``In testing, I can feel the chassis flexing,`` Sato told Motorsport Aktuell magazine.

``It is not as rigid as a current car.``

Leafield-based Super Aguri, led by Aguri Suzuki, is apparently targeting Imola (April 23) as a possible debut date for the brand new SA06 car, but mid-May`s Spanish GP is understood to be more realistic.


Sato also explained that he hasn`t even properly tested the SA05`s `06-legal bodywork, which is expected to propel him and rookie teammate Yuji Ide to within six or seven seconds of the pace.

``I have driven the (Bahrain-spec) car,`` he told the publication, ``but I never really got the tyres up to temperature.``

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