Super Aguri-Honda: Everyone's second-favorite team

[blakebeatty]

In the team by team preview, on this site, they commented "Super Aguri-Honda: Everyone's second-favorite team"

Do people actually feel this way? or is it sarcasm?

I wouldn't care if SA ceased operation. They are completely irrelevant as a team to me in Formula 1.

[ioan]

I wouldn't care if SA ceased operation. They are completely irrelevant as a team to me in Formula 1.

Let's say we are not like you.
BTW, who are completely relevant to you in F1?

[EuroTroll]

In the team by team preview, on this site, they commented "Super Aguri-Honda: Everyone's second-favorite team"

Do people actually feel this way? or is it sarcasm?

I rather like that phrase!

There's, indeed, something about Super Aguri that makes most people wish them well, I think.

[luvracin]

Everybody loves an underdog.

[EuroTroll]

Everybody loves an underdog.

A bit too absolute, perhaps. I'd say most people do.

[RWD]

I think it is because the team rose from nothing to entering F1 within 3-4 months, and although they came last as expected, they didnt make a fool of themselves. They have a passion for F1 that some other teams seem to lack.

[Dave B]

I can't get passionate about them, though, in the same way I did about true "privateers" like Jordan or Minardi.

Let's face it: they're Honda's full-time test team. A division of a major international corporation, seperate for accounting purposes and to avoid contravening the F1 rules, but not the "underdogs" they'd like to paint themselves as.

[Simmi]

If you look at the story of the team coming to be and how late everything was left then you have to hand it to them. Also the story of taking the Arrows chassis from an airport and things seem so far away from the multi-million norm of F1 thats its great they didnt disgrace themselves.

[ChrisS]

They have a passion for F1 that some other teams seem to lack.

Though Aguri Suzuki is a former racer and I believe he has a passion for racing the team was not created out of passion but rather out of the need for Honda to satisfy it's domestic market by keeping Sato in F1

IMHO the only team that is involved in F1 out of passion of the sport is Williams, all the other teams are there because they have something to sell

[F1boat]

In the team by team preview, on this site, they commented "Super Aguri-Honda: Everyone's second-favorite team"

Do people actually feel this way? or is it sarcasm?

I wouldn't care if SA ceased operation. They are completely irrelevant as a team to me in Formula 1.

Honestly I don't like them. Moving chicanes.