Barrichello positive despite no points

The Honda driver, starting from a disappointing 17th position after failing to make it past the first part of qualifying on Saturday, charged through the field to finish in 11th place in the race.

Barrichello, however, lost a lot of time being stuck behind teammate Jenson Button for 16 laps, with the Briton struggling for pace.

Once he overtook Button, Barrichello was able to show a much competitive pace, but by then it was too late to reach the point-scoring positions.

"I feel like we had a competitive race today, even though I finished outside of the points," said Barrichello. "The tyres were working well and our strategy also worked to our advantage.

"I was losing time behind Jenson in the first part of the race but that's the way racing goes. We have no team orders so I had to find my way past and go on from there.

"Apart from that, I thought we could quite possibly have scored points here. I think we got the best from the car today so we have shown that there is a lot of work to do to improve.

"At least we know where our problem is and we have some ideas on how to fix them. I'm sure we can make some progress before Malaysia."

Button continued with his dismal weekend, unable to be competitive with his car and being hit with a drive-through penalty for speeding in the pitlane.

The Briton went on to finish in 15th place.

"Not a very good day or result unfortunately," said Button. "I was running heavy with fuel in the first stint and had to pit early because the car had a massive amount of understeer. At my first stop I requested front wing but because of a radio problem the team was unable to respond.

"When I pitted again, we had to put a lot of wing on but it didn't make any difference. So the problem may be in the front end aerodynamics. If that proves to be the case, then it is something we can certainly address straight away. Then of course I had the drive-through penalty which just compounded things.

"Going forward, once we know where our problems lie and what we need to do to fix them, we have three weeks and a test in between to start addressing them. Hopefully we will be able to demonstrate some improvement as early as the next race in Malaysia."