Spice Aguri ?

January 30, 2008

After “Force India Formula 1 Team”, there are now talks of Super Aguri with another Indian consortium for a possible investment. The Indian consortium is led by the Spice Group, which is currently promoting Indian A1 team.

The deal is supposed to cost $66 Million, that is the debt that Super Aguri is currently running, plus One Dollar as token amount. But this comes with one condition that Narain Karthikyean should get the driving seat. Which apparently is not acceptable to Honda as they very keen to continue with Anthony Davidson. They way we see it, Honda is keeping Anthony Davidson as future replacement of one of the own drivers.

But his has come under criticism from some quarters of Formula 1, firstly because the sponsorship money that Narain Karthikyean will bring, Davidson can only dream about. And secondly if Honda is so much concerned about Davidson then they should take him as a part of their own team.

The feasibility of Spice Group joining hands with Super Aguri now firmly stands on whether Karthikyean will get the driver’s seat or not, and that is something the Spice Group is pretty clear of.