Super Aguri wait while cars go back to Honda

Struggling Super Aguri will have to wait a few more days to find out whether they have a Formula One future after a meeting with backers Honda on Wednesday proved inconclusive.

The team said talks were continuing and that founder and principal Aguri Suzuki would meet the full Honda board in Tokyo early next week.

Honda have already said they are unwilling to continue supporting the team in addition to their own Honda F1 operation after helping Super Aguri through last weekend's Spanish GP.

In an intriguing twist however, a witness at the Honda F1 factory in Brackley told Reuters that the Super Aguri cars had turned up there.

Other teams sent their cars direct from the Circuit de Catalunya to Trieste in northern Italy where they were to board a ferry for Istanbul en route to the Turkish Grand Prix on May 11.

The sea journey takes three days, with the cars then having to be overhauled and presented for scrutineering by the governing FIA at the Istanbul Park on May 8.

Other Formula One sources said Super Aguri's transporters had gone to Trieste from Barcelona, and a witness in the Italian port said they were there, but without the cars.

They said there could still be time to catch a later ferry or, at considerable cost, to fly the cars to Istanbul if a rescue deal emerged in the next few days.

The team's drivers, Japan's Takuma Sato and Britain's Anthony Davidson, have said they were preparing for the race as usual.