Asian Motor Sports

To say it’s been a bad week and a half for Super Aguri’s Yuji Ide would be a vast understatement. Last week he was Aguri Suzuki’s second driver on the fledgeling Japanese F1 team. A few days later he had been demoted, at the urging of the FIA, to the teams Man Friday.

That turned out to be symbolic as Ide-san never put wheel to pavement last weekend at the European GP. Now the transformation is complete. Ide-san has gone from Man Friday to Nowhere Man (apologies to Lennon and McCartney)

SUPER AGURI F1 TEAM confirms that the FIA Permit Office has retracted Yuji Ide’s Super License. He will therefore not be participating in any further official FIA Formula One World Championship events this year.

It is with sadness and regret that the team accepts this decision, however Aguri Suzuki and A.Company (Japan) shall continue to seek driving opportunities for Yuji and hopefully a path back into Formula One.

As a result, Franck Montagny will drive once again for the SAF1 Team at the forthcoming Spanish Grand Prix and the Monaco Grand Prix whilst discussions with a number of parties continue regarding the permanent positions of second race seat and third driver.

Again, with apologies:

He’s a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody…

On the other hand, Ide-san could be singing Crying, Waiting, Hoping.

Cross Posted @ Full Throttle.