Button fastest V8 runner on day two at Jerez

It was another sunny day in Jerez for the second day of Honda Racing F1 Team’s three-day test. Jenson Button has now joined the test team, taking over from Anthony Davidson in chassis 078-07, and spent the morning session running through some early set-up work, completing 52 laps.

Jenson spent the afternoon working through a Michelin tyre evaluation, looking at various compounds. He completed a total of 70 laps today and set the second fastest time, a 01:19.087 – the fastest time of the V8 runners.

James Rossiter continued his running in the new 078-08 car. He ran through a chassis set-up programme, completing 37 laps in the morning and a further 31 laps in the afternoon session.

NB: Badoer, Montagny, Kovaleinan, Klien, Coulthard & Van Hooydonk are in V10 cars.

1 L. Badoer 01:18.208
2 J. Button 01:19.087
3 F. Montagny 01:19.368
4 H. Kovaleinan 01:19.437
5 R. Briscoe 01:19.570
6 J. Trulli 01:19.934
7 M. Webber 01:20.317
8 N. Rosberg 01:20.459
9 G. Paffett 01:20.488
10 A. Wurz 01:20.530
11 J. Rossiter 01:20.585
12 D. Coulthard 01:20.876
13 C. Klien 01:21.033
14 M. Gene 01:21.116
15 J. van Hooydonk 01:21.432
16 J. Villeneuve 01:21.682
17 T. Monteiro 01:24.348