Super Aguri F1 was a Formula One team that competed from 2006 to 2008. The team, founded by former F1 driver Aguri Suzuki, was based in Tokyo, Japan but operated from the former Arrows factory at the Leafield Technical Centre, Oxfordshire. The cars were referred to as Super Aguri Hondas, with the team functioning to some degree as an unofficial Honda 'B'-team. In Japan, public pressure persuaded Honda to help its former driver Takuma Sato to continue to compete in Formula One. This was influential in the creation of Super Aguri's F1 project and the engine supply from Super Aguri's parent company Honda. After participating in the championship for 2 years and 4 months, the team withdrew from F1 after 4 races in the 2008 season due to financial difficulties. Throughout the team's time in the sport, it scored 4 points. All of these were scored by Sato, and all were in the 2007 season.
Talks to start the team began in February 2005, but it was not until September that plans started to take shape. The team registered its intention to enter the Formula One World Championship to the FIA, Formula One's governing body, on 1 November (ahead of the governing body's 15 November deadline). However, the FIA's official press release of the entry list for 2006 confirmed that it had not approved Super Aguri's entry: this was reported to be due to the team's failure to produce the required $48 million entry bond on time. The team re-applied for entry in 2006, and continued to prepare cars for the upcoming season. Having missed the initial registration, the team needed to convince the existing ten teams to unanimously agree to its entry. It appeared that the Midland team was blocking on the grounds of potentially reduced TV revenue, but it was eventually granted the necessary unanimous agreement and the team's entry was confirmed by the FIA on 26 January 2006.
Super Aguri may refer to a number of motor racing teams associated with former racing driver Aguri Suzuki:
Team Aguri, formerly Amlin Aguri and officially the Team Aguri Formula E Team, is an international motor racing team founded by former Formula One and 24 Hours of Le Mans driver Aguri Suzuki (Executive Chairman) and Mark Preston (Team Principal) to compete in the FIA Formula E Championship for electric cars. The team is based in Tokyo, Japan and currently in a technical partnership with McLaren.
Team Aguri is the creation of Suzuki and Preston, who previously created the Super Aguri F1 team in just 100 days, who competed in Formula One between 2006 to 2008. On 1 November 2013, Team Aguri reached an agreement with the FIA to become the sixth of ten teams to sign up to race in the inaugural season of the Formula E series.
It was announced on 27 June 2014 that the first female driver to drive in Formula E would be Katherine Legge from Great Britain. On 2 July 2014, António Félix da Costa from Portugal was confirmed as the second driver. It was announced that Takuma Sato would fill in for the team at the first round in Beijing, due to Félix da Costa having previous commitments in the DTM series.Salvador Durán replaced Legge from the Punta del Este round. Félix da Costa took the team's first win in Buenos Aires, and the team ultimately finished in seventh place in the teams' championship.