April 23, 200817 yr Honda in good shape - ButtonHonda may only be making one more major upgrade to this year's car in the summer before focusing completely on 2009, but Jenson Button believes the penultimate major improvements introduced at last week's Barcelona test will stand the team in good shape for this weekend's race."Our performance over the first three races showed a steady rate of improvement which was encouraging for the whole team and has given us renewed confidence in the car," Button said. "Although I was not able to complete much mileage at the test this week due to the weather, the team had three days evaluating the new upgrades, so I am confident that we are in good shape.""The circuit here is very familiar so we will make the best use of our time on track to fine-tune the set-up of the car," he added. "We hope to be challenging for a top ten qualifying position again which would put us in position for a strong race."
April 23, 200817 yr Honda’s Button takes on triathlon challenge :clap: With a three-week break between races, Honda’s Jenson Button would be forgiven for taking a little time off ahead of this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix. Button, however, has been hard at work training for the Barcelona race and on Sunday even took part in an amateur athletic competition. The ‘Sevenoaks Triathlon’, which took place in Kent, England, comprised a 400-metre swim, a 27-kilometre bike ride and an eight-kilometre run. Button, who regularly competes in triathlons, participated alongside physio Mike Collier at the British event and finished 16th out of the 250 competitors with a time of 1:31.21. “I really enjoy competing in triathlons, probably because I have total control over my race and the result,” he told his official website. “In F1, it's very different as it's a big team event but in a triathlon you are in control of your own destiny. I love training and anything physical so having to push myself to the limit in three different and very intense skills is very rewarding.” Button’s next triathlon outing will also be on British soil, at the Nokia Royal Windsor Triathlon on 15 June.
April 25, 200817 yr He got a very good result. Well done, Jenson! I even didn't find any pics Thanks for the pics, LuNo!
April 26, 200817 yr Spanish Grand Prix1st Free Practice1 K. Räikkönen 1:20.649 17 2 F. Massa 1:20.699 9 3 L. Hamilton 1:21.192 20 4 R. Kubica 1:21.568 20 5 H. Kovalainen 1:21.758 10 6 F. Alonso 1:21.933 18 7 N. Piquet jr. 1:21.936 21 8 D. Coulthard 1:22.118 20 9 N. Heidfeld 1:22.278 24 10 J. Button 1:22.632 16 11 T. Glock 1:23.002 21 12 N. Rosberg 1:23.003 25 13 M. Webber 1:23.015 14 14 J. Trulli 1:23.141 15 15 K. Nakajima 1:23.153 24 16 A. Sutil 1:23.156 22 17 G. Fisichella 1:23.196 20 18 R. Barrichello 1:23.353 14 19 S. Bourdais 1:23.952 15 20 S. Vettel 1:24.082 15 21 T. Sato 1:24.278 14 22 A. Davidson 1:25.068 10
April 26, 200817 yr Spanish Grand Prix2nd Free Practice1 K. Räikkönen 1:21.935 38 2 N. Piquet jr. 1:22.019 38 3 F. Alonso 1:22.032 26 4 K. Nakajima 1:22.172 35 5 F. Massa 1:22.229 32 6 M. Webber 1:22.238 36 7 N. Rosberg 1:22.266 33 8 D. Coulthard 1:22.289 30 9 G. Fisichella 1:22.383 38 10 A. Sutil 1:22.548 38 11 L. Hamilton 1:22.685 33 12 R. Kubica 1:22.788 38 13 N. Heidfeld 1:23.130 40 14 J. Trulli 1:23.224 34 15 J. Button 1:23.263 34 16 H. Kovalainen 1:23.264 8 17 R. Barrichello 1:23.415 31 18 S. Vettel 1:23.661 35 19 S. Bourdais 1:23.684 37 20 T. Glock 1:23.883 40 21 T. Sato 1:25.110 30 22 A. Davidson 1:25.163 31
April 26, 200817 yr Spanish Grand Prix3rd Free Practice1 N. Heidfeld 1:21.269 19 2 D. Coulthard 1:21.465 16 3 F. Alonso 1:21.599 16 4 R. Kubica 1:21.717 23 5 J. Trulli 1:21.771 21 6 S. Bourdais 1:21.942 19 7 N. Piquet jr. 1:21.992 18 8 J. Button 1:22.060 17 9 F. Massa 1:22.075 16 10 T. Glock 1:22.081 23 11 L. Hamilton 1:22.094 15 12 N. Rosberg 1:22.174 19 13 K. Räikkönen 1:22.176 18 14 K. Nakajima 1:22.189 16 15 H. Kovalainen 1:22.220 16 16 S. Vettel 1:22.292 20 17 R. Barrichello 1:22.350 17 18 G. Fisichella 1:22.466 22 19 A. Sutil 1:22.689 21 20 T. Sato 1:23.726 16 21 A. Davidson 1:23.921 15 22 M. Webber no time 2
April 26, 200817 yr Spanish Grand PrixQualifying1 K. Räikkönen 1:21.813 2 F. Alonso 1:21.904 3 F. Massa 1:22.058 4 R. Kubica 1:22.065 5 L. Hamilton 1:22.096 6 H. Kovalainen 1:22.231 7 M. Webber 1:22.429 8 J. Trulli 1:22.529 9 N. Heidfeld 1:22.542 10 N. Piquet jr. 1:22.699 11 R. Barrichello 1:21.049 12 K. Nakajima 1:21.117 13 J. Button 1:21.211 14 T. Glock 1:21.230 15 N. Rosberg 1:21.349 16 S. Bourdais 1:21.724 17 D. Coulthard 1:21.810 18 S. Vettel 1:22.108 19 G. Fisichella 1:22.516 20 A. Sutil 1:23.224 21 A. Davidson 1:23.318 22 T. Sato 1:23.496
May 3, 200817 yr Button has high hopes for Turkey03 May 2008Fresh from a sixth place finish in the Spanish Grand Prix, Jenson Button is heading to the Turkish Grand Prix next week hopeful of another strong points scoring finish."I've had a couple of good results in Istanbul in 2005 and 2006, finishing in the top five on both occasions," Button said. "The track layout is excellent with the changes in elevation making it a tough but enjoyable circuit for the drivers. There are some really good overtaking opportunities at turn one and turn three, with a chance of passing into turns nine and twelve if you get it right.""The Spanish Grand Prix was our first major upgrade to the RA108 and the new aero package definitely gave us a performance improvement over the weekend," he added. "It's good to know that we are improving the car step-by-step and I was able to develop a good understanding of the new developments. The car that we take to Turkey will be essentially the same package, therefore our focus will be getting onto Q3 and qualifying in the top ten. Turkey is a circuit that I have always been competitive at, and really enjoy driving, so I am hopeful that we will have a good race."
May 9, 200817 yr Button eyes more points this weekend09 May 2008Fresh from three points and a sixth place finish in the Spanish Grand Prix, Jenson Button is aiming for more points this weekend, but acknowledged that if Ferrari, McLaren and BMW stay reliable, it will be difficult to do much better than seventh."If everyone finishes it is very difficult to score points because you have got six very fast cars and you are fighting over two points but we will aim for points for sure," Button said. "The first few races, in qualifying, were reasonable but I struggled in the race to have a good performance basically because twice I crashed at turn one," he added. "It was finally nice to get to the end of a grand prix and to be not just scoring one point, but to get three points on the board. It was a good race and the pace of the car was reasonable. There is a lot of work still to be done but the positives are we are improving and every race we go to we feel we are getting a little bit more out of the car, and so far everything is going to plan.""We have got a few tweaks here which should make a bit of time," he went on. "Also this is a circuit which I think will suit our car a little bit more than Barcelona which is very bumpy and I think that ride quality is an area where we are lacking. We have got a few tweaks on that side and it is a smoother circuit, so I will be looking for a good performance in qualifying and then we will see."
May 9, 200817 yr Turkish Grand Prix1st Free Practice1 F. Massa 1:27.323 16 2 H. Kovalainen 1:27.456 17 3 L. Hamilton 1:27.752 15 4 F. Alonso 1:28.284 16 5 J. Button 1:28.919 12 6 K. Nakajima 1:29.002 19 7 N. Heidfeld 1:29.024 21 8 R. Barrichello 1:29.068 11 9 N. Piquet jr. 1:29.082 23 10 T. Glock 1:29.103 19 11 J. Trulli 1:29.329 24 12 R. Kubica 1:29.330 7 13 N. Rosberg 1:29.367 20 14 A. Sutil 1:29.756 23 15 G. Fisichella 1:29.811 23 16 M. Webber 1:30.088 21 17 D. Coulthard 1:30.340 13 18 S. Bourdais 1:30.388 19 19 S. Vettel 1:30.426 21 20 K. Räikkönen 1:30.732 3
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