So, our announcement that we will be running Japanese hero Takuma Sato for a day’s testing in Jerez, after the Italian Grand Prix, has sent the Japanese press into a frenzy of speculation and rumour.

So, Gerhard Berger, himself hugely popular in the Land of the Rising Son, since his Honda-powered days as a McLaren driver, decided to treat them all to a mini press conference on Friday afternoon, so they could bombard him with questions: most of them will only really be answered after Taku-san has driven the car.