Canada: Barrichello looking forward to Montreal

By Phil Huff
June 22 2006

Rubens Barrichello heads to Montreal for the Canadian Grand Prix happy with the work done in testing, but perhaps lacking confidence of a strong result for the Honda Racing F1 team.

"The Canadian Grand Prix is really one of my favourite races on the calendar," explains Rubens. "First of all, the track is quite challenging and we have been doing a lot of work in testing to work on the set-up for this race. We had a positive test last week in Monza and I think we should be able to have a good weekend.

"Secondly," he continues, "Montreal is a great city and it always provides a good backdrop to the racing action.

"I'm looking forward to it."

And that's where he left it. With the front running teams seemingly a world away in performance terms, Honda's expectation is simply a points finish, with the target of getting both drivers in the top eight.

With no qualifying problems, and reliability from the engine, that should be possible.

We certainly hope so.