Button downbeat again
Jenson Button admitted he was far from happy as his season-long misery continued during qualifying in Montreal
The Brit, who was the star of last season, was headed by every other driver except the two Minardis as he qualified 20th. He was four-tenths slower than team mate Giancarlo Fisichella in 18th, and Button has now qualified on the penultimate row of the grid for the fifth time in eight races.
Not even an intensive testing session focused specifically on him in Magny-Cours last week seems to have solved his problems. Button has not outqualified his team mate since the opening race of the season back in March.
"I am not at all happy," he said. "We didn't get the best out of qualifying and it didn't help when the second red flag came out when it did.
"This morning I thought the balance of the car was good, although there was a touch of understeer. We did the last run with less downforce in an effort to generate more straight-line speed, but that made life too difficult in the corners."
Benetton is struggling for pace as it develops a radical 111-degree engine, and major improvements are not expected until the French Grand Prix next month.
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