TEAM REPORTS (MAGNY COURS) - HRF1 QUALIFYING RESULTS

The Honda Racing F1 Team's Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello will line up for tomorrow's French Grand Prix from the sixth and seventh rows of the grid after taking 12th and 13th positions in this afternoon's qualifying session. Jenson and Rubens made it through the first of the two knock-out rounds, but in a close-fought Q2, with the top 13 positions covered by less than a second, they narrowly missed out on a place in Q3, despite Jenson being just 0.2 sec shy of P10. JENSON BUTTON "It's always so tight here at Magny Cours during qualifying and we saw that again today. We have made a step forward and the car is certainly better than at the last race in Indianapolis, although our position doesn't really reflect that. It's nice to be in front of some of our direct competitors in the midfield though.