Bahrain GP - Honda - QualifyingHonda will start tomorrow’s Bahrain Grand Prix from the eighth row of the grid. For the first time this year
Rubens Barrichello and
Jenson Button made it through to Q2, with Barrichello piping his team-mate by 0.1s to start 15th.
Rubens
Barrichello
“This morning I had a few problems with the aerodynamic set-up of the car but this improved a little for qualifying. The qualifying session itself was straightforward enough but I am getting the most from the car as it is right now and unfortunately that is 15th position. As always we will be looking for any possibilities to improve during the race.”
Jenson Button“We’ve qualified roughly where we have done for the past two races, and as we have acknowledged, that is as quick as the car goes right now. In Q1 I had a problem with the front wing. My first option (soft) tyre run was quite good and then during the next run on the option we lost masses of front downforce and at every corner I was locking up the fronts.
I kept moving further rearwards on the brake bias but it didn’t really help. In Q2 we tried a different front wing but it didn’t improve things. I think we got the best from the
car again today so it’s down to what we can do in the race now.”
Jacky Eeckelaert, Engineering Director
“Today both Jenson and Rubens achieved the best they could with the car we have for the moment. Both cars will start from row 8 tomorrow and with a good race strategy we can make up some places, have a good fight with the cars around us and hopefully target a point or two.”
Source Honda
