Please, make it so!

[QUOTE]Ide future at Aguri under threat

New team Super Aguri are considering dropping their rookie Japanese driver Yuji Ide after another poor race. Team manager Daniele Audetto said he would decide whether to retain Ide after the European Grand Prix on 7 May.

 

Responding to Albers' charge of over-aggressiveness, he said: ''I don't think I was pushing too hard. Albers was the one on the racing line and I could not avoid his car.''

- that statement alone imo means he should not be in F1!

 

Good!

[QUOTE]Stewards reprimand Ide

Super Aguri driver Yuji Ide has been reprimanded by race stewards following his spectacular first-lap accident with Christijan Albers. Ide

 

You may have your wish...

F1 News: Ide 'unlikely' to race at Nurburgring

Monday, April 24, 2006 - 07:30 AM

An ominous cloud has re-gathered over Yuji Ide's fledgling F1 career.

The struggling rookie driver, already warned by Super Aguri bosses to up his game, sent an irate Christijan Albers' 'MF1' into a barrel-roll at Imola -- an indiscretion that earned him a formal reprimand from the stewards.

They ruled that 31-year-old Ide had caused the shunt, warning him of the 'possible effect of incurring a second' slap.

Added to his extreme lack of pace and erratic on-track style, a movement of opposition to Ide's mere presence on the grid has now widened. Former triple world champion Niki Lauda told 'RTL' TV at Imola that the sport's bigwigs should consider suspending his superlicense.

''It is not making formula one look good,'' the Austrian told Germany's F1 broadcaster, probably also riled by Ide's reluctance to accept the blame for his error.

Responding to Albers' charge of over-aggressiveness, he said: ''I don't think I was pushing too hard. Albers was the one on the racing line and I could not avoid his car.''

England's 'Times' newspaper, however, summed up the mood of the F1 paddock, reporting that Ide is 'unlikely to be in Germany at the next race'.

 

He's in way over his head and needs the boot.

 

And make it a big boot please...

 

Ide is an embarrasment to Formula 1 racing. To have someone like that racing just because he is Japanese shows that money and politics domintates the sport.

Please remove him asap!

 

^ Ya see Nabeel, we actually do agree with each other, often...

 

Finally, I mean sure, give a guy a shot. Who wouldnt want one, but it's clear he doesnt have the attitude, pace, or skills to compete in the sport. Get him OUT, plenty of other drivers more deserving/skilled.

 

It's about time. IMO, he has been a danger on the track since day 1.