Honda moves from Hockenheim to Hungaroring

After an encouraging turn at the German GP, the Honda Racing F1 Team has now immediately focused its attentions on this weekend’s Hungarian GP. Jenson Button scored a fourth place finish last weekend and the team will be working hard in the few days they have this week to make sure the improved performance continues at the Hungaroring.

“Our new aero parts and a few of the other developments that we had in Hockenheim should also help us in Hungary,” says Jenson Button. “I’m looking forward to the race and hopefully we can replicate the strong performance from last weekend with another points finish, and maybe even go one better.”

Sporting Director Gil de Ferran is also keen that Honda keeps up the momentum. "After a positive weekend in Germany,” he says, “we now head to Budapest where we hope to achieve another strong result. The Hungaroring is a very tight and twisty track with many slow corners, requiring good traction and braking stability. It is also likely to be another extremely hot weekend which suits our car but is quite demanding for the drivers."

While the outlook for the team after Hockenheim was positive, Rubens Barrichello suffered an engine failure and was forced to retire. However he can take comfort from the knowledge that the improvements made to all areas of the car should mean a better weekend for him in Budapest. “Although we didn’t have a good race in Germany, we can look at our overall performance from that weekend and take a lot of positives to Hungary. I won at the Hungaroring back in 2002 and have been on the podium a couple more times so it’s a circuit that I enjoy racing at.”