Does Aguri already have new car design started?

UPDATE Mark Preston has confirmed that he is the Chief Technical Officer of the new Super Aguri F1 team, based at the team's headquarters at Leafield. Preston and his team of followers had been planning to start their own F1 team and had set up offices at Silverstone but it seems that they have since become integrated into the Super Aguri operation which is now being put together at Leafield. For most of the Preston group this will be a return to old times as they all worked together at Leafield in the days of the old Arrows F1 team. Grandprix.com 11/03/05 The company, Super Aguri F1 Ltd was incorporated on October 31 this year with its address listed as the Leafield Technical Centre. The websites www.superagurif1.com and www.superaguri-f1.com have been registered by the new company, but what is most interesting is that the name listed as the contact person for the new team is Mark Preston.

Preston is a Formula 1 engineer who worked at Arrows before moving on for a couple of years at McLaren. He then decided that he was going to try to raise the money for his own F1 team. Preston now has offices in the new Silverstone Innovation Centre and lists a number of ex-Arrows and TWR staff as being involved in its plans. These include Paul Bowen, a British Aerospace and Marconi engineer who joined Arrows in 1987 as one of Ross Brawn's design team. He worked on the design team of the A10B chassis which in 1988 gave Arrows fourth place in the Constructors' Championship and was project engineer on the Arrows A11 in 1989. After Brawn and his replacement James Robinson moved on Bowen became chief engineer in 1990 and when Tom Walkinshaw took over the team Bowen became chief designer and led the team which produced the Arrows-Yamaha A18 of 1997. Bowen later followed Brawn to Ferrari where he headed mechanical design for a period.

Also mentioned is Dr Rob Neumann, another former Arrows design engineer who has since started his own composites business; plus Kevin Lee, a TWR man dating back to 1979 who was involved in the Silk Cut Jaguar program at Le Mans in the 1980s. Another ex-TWR man is finance executive Michael Boon. More at Grandprix.com