2007 BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX SAKHIR
FREE PRACTICE
As anticipated by the Honda Racing F1 Team, drivers Rubens
Barrichello and Jenson Button encountered another difficult
start to their race weekend in Bahrain today. They ended the
day 11th and 22nd.
With less than a week since the last race in Malaysia, the
drivers are working with the same package and today saw the
expected repeat of the set-up woes evident at Sepang. Jenson
experienced further frustration midway through the second
session when he suffered an engine failure which caused him
to stop out on the circuit.
RUBENS BARRICHELLO
"Obviously we saw a good improvement towards the end
of the afternoon and right at the close of the session the
car was better than it has been at any other time today. We
worked a lot on the car during the two sessions and made some
major changes but there is a long way to go yet because we
are nowhere near where we need to be with the balance."
JENSON BUTTON
"The car is the same as it was in Malaysia so it would
have been unrealistic for us to expect any improvement on
where we were last week. However we aren't as slow as we appeared
today because I only had the chance to run on old tyres in
the second session before I had the engine failure. There
is still work we can do on the balance to make the car a little
bit better for tomorrow, but we have a lot to do and it's
going to be another long hard race."
JACKY EECKELAERT
Engineering Director
"We worked through our usual Friday race preparation.
The temperatures are much higher than they were when we tested
here in February, so this has changed the balance of the car.
Rubens was able to complete all the planned runs but is still
not quite happy with the set-up. Jenson suffered an engine
failure and was unable to check his race set-up on both types
of tyres. We have a lot of work to do overnight to try to
improve for tomorrow."
FREE PRACTICE STATS
Drivers Car No. Chassis No. Free Practice 1 Free Practice
2
Jenson Button 7 RA107-04 24 laps 01:35.445 P11 19 laps 01:36.079
P22
Rubens Barrichello 8 RA107-02 20 laps 01:35.911 P17 28 laps
01:34.391 P11
Weather Hot and sunny
Temperatures Air: 31-34°C Track: 39-49°C
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