Button: “The key here is the tires! »

For its first participation in a race weekend, the Brawn Grand Prix team confirmed its good form displayed at the private tests in Jerez and Barcelona, although Jenson Button declares that there will still be some fine-tuning necessary.

Published on 27/03/2009 à 15:54

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Nice start from Jenson Button, who sets the fifth fastest time of the day. If the Briton seemed satisfied, he did not declare victory. And there would be reason, however, we cannot say that such a result is bad for a team which only completed seven days of private testing this winter

“We are fast but we still have small problems to solve. The pace is good during the long stints on the hard tires, but we have a little trouble with the softs. On a tour, it is difficult to get them up to temperature. This is an area we will work on tomorrow morning because, here, tires are the key! »

If Ross Brawn's men were to manage to get the tires working for one lap during the final session tomorrow morning, the two GP001s might not be far from pole tomorrow.

“Despite the fact that we have driven relatively little this winter, we demonstrated today that our car is competitive. We worked well, we evaluated both types of tires and I think we have a good chance of doing well in qualifying tomorrow. », commented Rubens Barrichello for his part.