Banned from Formula 1 After Only 4 Races..

Damn. Kinda feel sorry for him, mental pressure from being the worst of the two, being treated as an extra during testing, and not being pre informed of the license revokation. They really didn't treat him fairly i guess.

Poor guy. You have to hold the people who put him in that situation accountable.

Considering he got his license revoked after just one crash he caused, this set the precedent and many more drivers should have lost their license as well... I would say, that was unfair. Unless FIA cares more about being competitive and not so much about causing crashes.

Whoever recruited him set him to up for failure. I don't blame the driver at all

Keep in mind that the car itself was a 4-year old Arrows A23, adapted for the 2006 regulations (which in and of itself made it uncompetitive right off the bat) - not the ideal situation for a rookie driver to be in. Also, the team was created at the behest of Honda, who was looking to keep Sato on the grid after signing Barrichello and a contract wrangling that saw Jenson Button staying with the Brackley-based team (Button had signed a deal with Williams for 2006 before changing his mind). Ide wasn't a spring chicken either - he was 31 by the time the season opened in Bahrain, which by F1 standarts is too old for a rookie (for compairsion, Nico Rosberg was 20, while Scott Speed was 23).

Ide's previous racing history was moderate but not all thát bad. He was simply totally unprepared for f1. This doesn't make him the worst f1 driver but the least prepared one.

The whole team, especially the team "manager" are to blame for this poor choice and resulting performance. Embarasment and failure, belongs to the Honda team.

Quite unfair. Clearly a case of a new driver to Formula 1 who needed more time to adapt to a F1 car.

The fact that the super-talented Sato was still second slowest showed that Ide really didn't have much to work with in the first place. I bet if he could speak English he would have fared a lot better with a car set up for him.

This really illustrates to me how much Mazespin deserved to have his super license revoked.

The management is at fault here. Why would a team pick a guy who isn't proven and bump him up all the way to F1? To top it all off, the guy had a language barrier. In F1, a language barrier is the worst thing a driver can have.

I think he had a solid excuse for being slow in the F1 car. He probably would be an average driver If he had experience and no language barrier.

Still a better driver than Mazepin

Well, at least his dad didn't threaten his team to stop funding 😂

Super Aguri was only ever created to keep Sato on the grid due to public pressure in Japan. They were never a constructor.

I feel bad for this man

I wanna see an F1 team with Maldonaldo as the CEO, Paul Di Resta as the team principal, Yuji Ide and Taki Inoue as the trainers, Mahaveer in the first seat, Deledda in the second seat, and Rich Energy as the main sponsor. 💀

Actually before Ide lost his super licence, he'd already been informed the week before he would be dropped to test driver by the team so knew he wouldn't be racing in Germany for the European GP.

I feel sorry for him, he’s still better than 99.9% of the people commenting on how bad he is. I only ever raced go carts and stock cars and I know how difficult that was with my limited talent. Fair play to him

Teams put in all this money into drivers and teams, but not in getting translators ... ridiculous.