Formula One News — November 2005

Aguri Suzuki filed his entry for the 2006 Formula 1 World Championship on October 26. The team must now wait until December 1 to find out whether or not the entry will be accepted.

Dave Clapham has died at the age of 74. He was a major figure in the development of motorsport in South Africa, starting out as a competitor in 1956 and becoming the manager of Sports Car Cub of South Africa in 1960.

Aguri Suzuki was the second Japanese racing driver to become a Formula 1 regular, following in the footsteps of pioneer Satoru Nakajima. Suzuki had raced karts from the age of 12 and made his debut in racing with three races in Formula 3 (straight from karts) in 1979.

Penske Racing, the second oldest team in the Indy Racing League, is moving its operational headquarters from Reading, Pennsylvania to Mooresville, North Carolina. Penske has been based in Reading since in 1973 after moving there from Philadelphia, where the team was established in 1966.

It has been confirmed in Tokyo that Aguri Suzuki is the man behind the new Honda team, as we exclusively predicted some weeks ago. The name of the new team will be Super Aguri F1 and the cars will be known as Aguri-Hondas.

Grandprix.com's Young Driver of the Year from 2001 Patrick Long has won the American Le Mans Series GT2 Championship, driving for the US based Petersen-White Lightning Porsche team.