France: Rubens Barrichello well prepared

By Phil Huff
July 14 2006

Rubens Barrichello is well prepared for Magny-Cours, with the Honda Racing F1 driver confident that recent testing will help the team in France.

"The circuit at Magny-Cours is a very good track for the drivers as it's a lot of fun to drive and also very fast," explains Barrichello. "The high speed changes of direction between turns four and five, and also turns seven and eight, are quite challenging.

"The race is usually an exciting one and if the weather follows the usual pattern, it will probably be a very hot race," he continued.

"We had an intensive test at Jerez this week in very hot conditions looking at the tyres and aero for this week so we should be well prepared. We collected a lot of data in Jerez and now we have to work hard and see how we can make that work for us at Magny-Cours."