Jenson Button remains confident that Honda can salvage some
pride from its disastrous season when Formula 1 returns to
Europe.
The Briton, who has yet to score a point in 2007, said on
Thursday that while he expects an improved performance from
his RA107 in Montreal this weekend, bigger things are just
around the corner.
"I think that you're going to see improvements," he said.
"The good thing is that there are lots more coming throughout
the year and they're making a difference.
"We're not putting things on the car at the moment that aren't
working which was happening at the start of the season, but
Magny-Cours is the race that I'm personally looking forward
to."
Button and team-mate Rubens Barrichello qualified in the top
ten for the first time this season at Monaco and Jenson
expects the upward trend to continue during F1's North
American double-header.
"I think here, where you need a very good car under braking,
you need to have confidence in the car," he said.
"Before Monaco I wouldn't have enjoyed this race but now that
we have a car that's a lot more driveable and better under
braking, I think that we should be able to have a reasonable
result here.
"We really made a step forward with the car at Paul Ricard.
"The pace might still not be there but the consistency
definitely is and the confidence given to the drivers so it's
a good step forward and hopefully we can just build on that
over the next few races."
And last year's Hungarian GP winner hasn't ruled out a points
finish on Sunday.
"It would be nice to get into the points," he said.
"I know that that's tough at the moment because there's so much
competition, especially with the reliability at the moment,
it's so good with every team, but we've just got to see if we
can get a better result than Monaco, because I think we ended
the race thinking damn, we could have got more out of it than
we did."
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pride from its disastrous season when Formula 1 returns to
Europe.
The Briton, who has yet to score a point in 2007, said on
Thursday that while he expects an improved performance from
his RA107 in Montreal this weekend, bigger things are just
around the corner.
"I think that you're going to see improvements," he said.
"The good thing is that there are lots more coming throughout
the year and they're making a difference.
"We're not putting things on the car at the moment that aren't
working which was happening at the start of the season, but
Magny-Cours is the race that I'm personally looking forward
to."
Button and team-mate Rubens Barrichello qualified in the top
ten for the first time this season at Monaco and Jenson
expects the upward trend to continue during F1's North
American double-header.
"I think here, where you need a very good car under braking,
you need to have confidence in the car," he said.
"Before Monaco I wouldn't have enjoyed this race but now that
we have a car that's a lot more driveable and better under
braking, I think that we should be able to have a reasonable
result here.
"We really made a step forward with the car at Paul Ricard.
"The pace might still not be there but the consistency
definitely is and the confidence given to the drivers so it's
a good step forward and hopefully we can just build on that
over the next few races."
And last year's Hungarian GP winner hasn't ruled out a points
finish on Sunday.
"It would be nice to get into the points," he said.
"I know that that's tough at the moment because there's so much
competition, especially with the reliability at the moment,
it's so good with every team, but we've just got to see if we
can get a better result than Monaco, because I think we ended
the race thinking damn, we could have got more out of it than
we did."
Source www.itv.com/f1
