Day one at Jerez for Honda
Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello took to the track again today for the Honda Racing F1 Team, continuing the intensive pre-season testing at the circuit Jerez, Spain, with Jenson Button completing an impressive 139 laps.
It was a cold but sunny start to the morning although ambient temperatures increased to 21˚C by early afternoon. Rubens and Jenson had the driving responsibilities today in chassis RA106-02 and chassis RA106-01 respectively. Both drivers spent the morning session setting up their cars as the circuit had quite low grip following two weeks of MotoGP testing.
In the afternoon session, Jenson ran through a tyre evaluation programme over longer runs, alongside an aero evaluation. He completed a very impressive 139 laps today, setting the second fastest time - a 01:18.242.
Rubens spent the afternoon working through a race simulation exercise followed by a short tyre evaluation, completing 114 laps and managing the third fastest time - a 01:18.609.
Jenson and Rubens will remain in their respective cars for tomorrow.
NB: Wurz and Monteiro are in interim V8 cars
1 A. Wurz 01:18.128
2 J. Button 01:18.242
3 R. Barrichello 01:18.609
4 N. Rosberg 01:18.727
5 R. Zonta 01:20.165
6 O. Panis 01:20.321
7 C. Albers 01:21.535
8 T. Monteiro 01:22.291
