2006 HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX
BUDAPEST - QUALIFYING
The Honda Racing F1 Team's Rubens Barrichello will line
up on the second row of the grid for tomorrow's Hungarian
Grand Prix in Budapest after achieving the 3rd fastest time
in this afternoon's qualifying session.
Team-mate Jenson Button finished 4th on the timesheets in
the final qualifying session, however he incurs an automatic
ten place grid penalty following the engine change required
in his RA106 race car after this morning's free practice session.
With encouraging pace again shown from both cars throughout
the weekend, and the strong performance in today's qualifying
session, the team now hopes to carry this through to the race
tomorrow and aim for a points finish from both cars.
JENSON BUTTON
"We put in a very strong performance in qualifying today.
The car is working well and the pace has been developing all
weekend. I started my final quick run with confidence that
I could get up there into the top three, then I locked the
brakes at the first corner and lost four-tenths of my best
first sector, but was still able to come back and be in fourth.
It's very frustrating that I will be starting from 14th on
the grid because of the engine failure this morning, even
more so as the car is looking good. This is a hard circuit
to overtake on but I'm going to go out there, enjoy the race
and see what we can do."
RUBENS BARRICHELLO
"Well I'm very pleased with our result today. It was
a great effort to finish in third position and also important
to be starting from the clean side of the grid. The whole
Honda team have made a huge effort in the last few weeks to
turn our performance around and that work and progress is
starting to show now. The car is competitive, we look to be
consistent on race pace and the driveability is improving.
I also think that we have made a good choice on our tyres
so it's looking good all round. I'm hoping for a great race
tomorrow, it's certainly my best chance of the year to have
a good result."
GIL DE FERRAN
Sporting Director
"This was quite a good day for us with Rubens and Jenson
qualifying 3rd and 4th fastest. During the morning session
we continued to work hard to adapt our set-up to the unusual
weather conditions. Unfortunately we had an engine failure
with Jenson halfway through the session and as a result we
incurred a ten place penalty; the cause of the problem is
yet to be determined. Nevertheless both drivers were relatively
happy with their cars both on new and old rubber, making us
hopeful for qualifying. Qualifying went fairly well and we
sailed through Q1 and Q2, then Q3 was nail biting and we came
very close to the front row. Obviously we don't know what
everyone's strategies are regarding tyres and fuel, furthermore
Jenson will start 14th, however we are comfortable with our
decisions and looking forward to a fighting race tomorrow."
QUALIFYING STATS
Drivers Car No. Chassis Free Practice 3 Qualifying 1 Qualifying
2 Qualifying 3
Rubens Barrichello 11 RA106-01 P4 P6 01:21.141 P3 01:19.783
P3 01:20.085
Jenson Button 12 RA106-05 P17 P3 01:20.820 P4 01:19.943 P4
01:20.092
Weather Overcast
Qualifying Temps Air: 21-24°C Track: 28-35°C
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