
Super Aguri Honda SA06 #22 T. Sato Japanese GP 2006 Minichamps 1:43

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Specifications
- Brand
- Super Aguri
- Manufacturer
- Minichamps
- Scale
- 1:43
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- Used Model
- SKU
- 400060122
- Year
- 2006
- Era
- 2000s
- Body Type
- Formula Models
- Vehicle Class
- Formula 1 Models
- Openable Parts
- No
- Packaging Condition
- Traces of Storage
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- 4012138080089
About the Super Aguri Honda SA06 #22 T. Sato Japanese GP 2006 Minichamps 1:43
TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 diecast Super Aguri Honda SA06 recreates Takuma Sato's #22 car from his home Japanese Grand Prix in 2006, racing for a Honda-backed team founded by former driver Aguri Suzuki. Compact diecast tooling reproduces the SA06's white-and-red livery with clean, accurate proportions.
A home Grand Prix always carries extra weight for a driver, and pairing Sato with a genuinely Japanese-founded team makes this livery a doubly local story.
Compact Diecast Detail for a Home-Race Livery
At 1:43, the SA06's improved second-generation chassis, more developed than the team's debut SA05, carries the same white-and-red scheme with slightly refined aerodynamic surfacing, and Minichamps' tooling reflects that development step accurately compared to the earlier car. Diecast construction gives the compact piece real weight, and a home-race livery like this often carries subtle Japanese sponsor branding not seen at other rounds, a detail collectors focused on specific race weekends look for closely. This is a piece where the race context matters as much as the car itself.
Sato, Honda, and a Genuinely Japanese F1 Story
Takuma Sato, a Japanese driver with prior seasons at BAR, joined Super Aguri, a team founded by fellow Japanese former driver Aguri Suzuki and backed by Honda, giving the 2006 Japanese Grand Prix a genuinely rare alignment of Japanese driver, Japanese team ownership, and Japanese manufacturer backing all in one entry. That confluence made Sato's home race with Super Aguri a genuinely significant moment for Japanese motorsport fans that year, regardless of the result on track. For a collector building a Japanese motorsport heritage shelf, this SA06 captures a specific and rarely repeated alignment of driver, team, and home soil.












