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Honda struggles on Friday
17 October 2008 / Results / PhotosThe Honda team was back in action today at the Shanghai International Circuit, just five days after its home Grand Prix at Fuji Speedway in Japan. Button ended the day in 19th position, with Barrichello just 0.1s behind in 20th.
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"We were struggling to find a good balance today and unfortunately nothing that we tried improved the car," said Button. "The problem seems to be that we find the limit of this car fairly quickly and that can be seen on Friday mornings when we are reasonably competitive. After that, we are unable to make further improvements. It's frustrating but as always we will make the best of what we have."
Barrichello commented, "Much as we expected to find at this circuit, the car is lacking performance here. It has been difficult to find a balance and the car is not particularly nice to drive with problems with both understeer and oversteer. The traction is also poor and we have a lot of work to achieve overnight to try and make improvements before qualifying tomorrow."
Head of engineering Steve Clark added, "This morning we conducted our usual tyre and set-up evaluations and did some good work with downforce levels. This afternoon it has been difficult to find a balance with the car and we were graining the tyres early on, so we weren't getting the first lap performance. We don't believe our performance is quite as bad as the timesheet suggests, as we were doing sensible race preparation as opposed to qualifying runs. Nonetheless, we are still expecting this to be a tough weekend for us."
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