Saturday - May 10, 2008, 12:00 am
Rows six and seven in Turkey
Following a slightly frustrating qualifying session at Istanbul Park, the Honda Racing F1 Team will start tomorrow’s Turkish Grand Prix from the sixth and seventh rows of the grid. Rubens Barrichello will line up in 12th place and Jenson Button 13th, after the pair set lap times less than 0.1s apart.
Rubens’ best was a 1:27.219s, which placed him 12th and 0.4s shy of a place in Q3; Jenson’s fastest time was 1:27.298s, placing him just behind his team-mate and on the clean side of the grid for tomorrow’s 58-lap race.
"It was a good effort from everyone today,” said Rubens, “however, unfortunately we are not as fast as we thought we might be here in Turkey. It is a balance problem, rather than the tyres or grip levels, and I believe we achieved the best that we could today. I could not get the car to perform well over the whole lap. The first and second sector were good, but the third sector was not working for us. Realistically this is where the car is at the moment. We need another step to make us a regular qualifier into Q3."
Rubens’ best was a 1:27.219s, which placed him 12th and 0.4s shy of a place in Q3; Jenson’s fastest time was 1:27.298s, placing him just behind his team-mate and on the clean side of the grid for tomorrow’s 58-lap race.
"It was a good effort from everyone today,” said Rubens, “however, unfortunately we are not as fast as we thought we might be here in Turkey. It is a balance problem, rather than the tyres or grip levels, and I believe we achieved the best that we could today. I could not get the car to perform well over the whole lap. The first and second sector were good, but the third sector was not working for us. Realistically this is where the car is at the moment. We need another step to make us a regular qualifier into Q3."
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