2007 SPANISH GRAND PRIX
BARCELONA - FREE PRACTICE
Formula One's European season got underway in Barcelona today
with the first free practice sessions for Sunday's Spanish
Grand Prix. The Honda Racing F1 Team's Jenson Button and Rubens
Barrichello made progress during the day to finish in 13th
and 14th places respectively.
JENSON BUTTON
"We spent four days testing here last week so we had
a good idea going into this weekend of how the car would perform.
Today we did the usual Friday work, setting-up the car for
qualifying and race conditions. We have made some small steps
with the stability of the car since the last race but the
outright pace has not yet improved a lot. However, both Rubens
and I covered a lot of laps today so we will look at all the
data this evening and see what progress can be made."
RUBENS BARRICHELLO
"A very conventional Friday. We test so often at this
circuit, most recently last week, that we know how the car
performs and pretty much where we stand versus the competition.
I think the car has improved since Bahrain and we have a decent
race pace but not such a good pace for qualifying, so we need
to look at that this evening and try to improve during tomorrow's
final free practice session."
JACKY EECKELAERT
Engineering Director
"A fairly smooth day in terms of achieving our planned
programme and with no specific problems. The car behaved pretty
much the same as in the test last week but the track conditions
have changed slightly, so it was good to do the comparison
work with both tyre options to ensure we have all the right
data available for the strategy. I think overall we have made
a small step in the right direction in terms of car performance
but obviously there is still a long way to go."
FREE PRACTICE STATS
Drivers Car No. Chassis No. Free Practice 1 Free Practice
2
Jenson Button 7 RA107-04 22 laps 01:23.114 P10 39 laps 01:22.808
P13
Rubens Barrichello 8 RA107-02 23 laps 01:23.479 P18 40 laps
01:22.926 P14
Weather Hot and sunny
Temperatures Air: 23-25°C Track: 31-38°C
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