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28/08/2008 06:16. Patrick Allen reports on a disappointing race weekend for Honda at a disappointing race track

Steve Clark (Head of Race and Test Engineering) stated afterwards on Honda’s website that Friday’s success seemed to show the rewards of the three week tweaking of new parts for the car. Unfortunately for Rubens, his Friday went backwards and any chances of getting Car 17 high on Saturday’s grid looked slim.

The Toro Rosso’s Sebastiens, who had also been suprisingly fast on Friday managed to continue their success with Vettel qualifying in 6 th and Bourdais in 10 th . Poor old Rubens struggled for the whole of qualie one not even able to break higher than 19 th (though he would eventually end up starting from the pits due to gear box troubles).

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