2007 UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX INDIANAPOLIS
QUALIFYING
The Honda Racing F1 Team's Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello
will line up for the start of tomorrow's United States Grand
Prix from the 7th and 8th rows of the grid. They qualified
in 13th and 15th positions respectively today at the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway, which basked in ambient temperatures of up
to 35°C.
It was a tough day for the Honda drivers, the challenge of
finding a good balance compounded by the heat and evolving
track conditions, but both drivers made best use of the car
and this afternoon Jenson finally missed out on the top ten
by 0.2secs.
JENSON BUTTON
"The car felt good for my first run in Q1, then I had
some problems getting started again after the weighbridge
and after that the car felt very different. I had to keep
having adjustments made to the front wing and we struggled
to find a good balance round the whole lap. I got all of the
performance possible out of the car for my final run in Q2
and that's where we are really. The times were very close
with some of the cars just in front of me, which is a surprise.
We will have to see what happens in the race."
RUBENS BARRICHELLO
"It has been a tough day for us today. It was very hard
to get a real balance in the car and from run to run it felt
very different. I had a lot of oversteer on my final run in
Q2, so that didn't help me right at the end. I did as much
as I could today and am disappointed not to make it into the
third qualifying session. We will have to hope that our strategy
allows us to make the most of any opportunity to improve during
the race and move us through the field."
JACKY EECKELAERT
Engineering Director
"Our drivers qualified in the same positions as they
did one week ago in Canada and with what is a very similar
car given that there was only one week between races. The
car is clearly not fast enough to make it into Q3. We have
chosen to focus our set-up on preserving the rear tyres, which
are subjected to a heavy duty cycle on this particular track.
Let's hope that our consistency pays dividends tomorrow."
QUALIFYING STATS
Drivers Car No. Chassis No. Free Practice Qualifying 1 Qualifying
2 Qualifying 3
Jenson Button 7 RA107-04 P15 P14 01:13.203 P13
01:12.998 Did not qualify
Rubens Barrichello 8 RA107-02 P18 P13 01:13.306 P15
01:13.201 Did not qualify
Weather Hot and sunny
Temperatures Air: 29-35°C Track: 40-59°C
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