2006 BRITISH GRAND PRIX
SILVERSTONE - FREE PRACTICE
The Honda Racing F1 Team made a good start to its British
Grand Prix weekend today as the first of the free practice
sessions got underway on home asphalt at Silverstone.
Third driver Anthony Davidson once again conducted most of
the running to end the day 4th fastest. To the delight of
the team's many British fans, who are already starting to
fill up the grandstands, Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button
had a busier afternoon working on car set-up to suit the demands
of this high-speed circuit and evaluating the tyre options
in the uncharacteristically hot conditions, which have been
forecast to remain throughout the weekend. They ended the
day 7th and 12th fastest race drivers.
ANTHONY DAVIDSON
"We had a good day in terms of getting through our planned
programme and learning about the two different tyre options
that we have here this weekend. I feel I did a good job today
in making things run as smoothly as possible and getting some
really valuable data to look at tonight. I'm confident in
the tyre choice for the weekend already and the car has had
a nice balance all day, so overall it's been a good Friday."
RUBENS BARRICHELLO
"It was quite a straightforward Friday for us today.
We worked solidly through the two sessions without any real
problems. We do need to improve the balance as I was happier
with it earlier than I was this afternoon, but we will look
at the data and work on that later today. Hopefully we can
keep moving forward through the rest of the weekend."
JENSON BUTTON
"We've been having very strange track conditions here
today and in particular it's very windy, which is causing
problems for a lot of the drivers. The balance is not too
bad although there is certainly room for improvement, so we'll
see what the data tells us this evening."
GIL DE FERRAN
Sporting Director
"This has been a good Friday for us. We were able to
complete all the planned running for the day with the three
cars and with no major issues. The track conditions are quite
unusual for Silverstone, and we need to continue working on
improving the balance of both race cars."
SHUHEI NAKAMOTO
Management Board Member - Honda Racing F1 Team, Engineering
Director - Honda Racing Development
"We have had a good day with all the drivers doing quite
a lot of laps. Anthony in particular has done a lot of work.
Both race drivers are on new engines this weekend which are
an upgrade on the ones we used in Monaco."
FREE PRACTICE STATS
Drivers Car No. Chassis Free Practice 1 Free Practice 2
Rubens Barrichello 11 RA106-01 5 laps 01:23.128 P6 17 laps
01:23.104 P10
Jenson Button 12 RA106-04 6 laps 01:23.415 P7 24 laps 01:23.707
P17
Anthony Davidson 36 RA106-03 31 laps 01:22.003 P2 34 laps
01:22.310 P4
Weather Warm and sunny
Temperatures Air: 25-29°C Track: 38-47°C
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