2006 CANADIAN GRAND PRIX MONTRÉAL
QUALIFYING
The Honda Racing F1 Team's Jenson Button will start tomorrow's
70-lap Canadian Grand Prix from the 4th row of the grid after
posting the 8th fastest time in this afternoon's qualifying
session. His team-mate Rubens Barrichello will line-up right
behind him in 9th position.
It was a nail-biting session which saw five of the top six
cars separated by just a tenth of a second at the end of the
final knock-out sector. Both Rubens and Jenson were happy
that they got the most from their RA106 race cars today and
now set their sights on the team's target of a two-car points
finish in tomorrow's race.
JENSON BUTTON
"I'm pretty happy with our qualifying position today.
8th is obviously not where we want to be but it's a solid
performance and we have both cars in the top ten. We'll just
have to see what happens tomorrow. It'll be an interesting
race as I think the Michelin tyres will work well and we're
positive about our race pace. We've only used one set of new
tyres in Qualifying so we've saved an extra set for the race.
I'm not going to talk our prospects up too much though. Our
aim is to get both cars in the points and that would be a
good result for us right now."
RUBENS BARRICHELLO
"We were on the borderline for the first qualifying session
as I almost got put out of it by Rosberg holding me up. Apart
from that, our qualifying hour ran smoothly enough. In the
last sector of my final lap, I went a little wide and ran
on the marbles, which cost me a bit of time. But we could
only have improved to eighth at the most with the car we have
so I'm satisfied with my position. We got as much as we could
out of the car today. I hope we can achieve our target of
points tomorrow."
GIL DE FERRAN
Sporting Director
"Qualifying went relatively well for us and it was certainly
full of tension. In Q1 Rubens had traffic on his fast laps
and only just made it through the second round. In Q2 both
Jenson and Rubens made it into the top ten in the dying seconds
of the session. Overall we are roughly where we expected to
be before qualifying started and both car and engine are running
well. We will put up a good fight tomorrow and try to move
up the field."
QUALIFYING STATS
Drivers Car No. Chassis Free Practice 3 Qualifying 1 Qualifying
2 Qualifying 3
Rubens Barrichello 11 RA106-01 P8 P16 1:16.735 P9 1:15.601
P9 1:16.912
Jenson Button 12 RA106-05 P12 P14 1:16.594 P10 1:15.814 P8
1:16.608
Weather Warm and sunny
Qualifying Temperatures Air: 25-27°C Track: 40-48°C
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