Monaco Thursday quotes: Honda

Jenson Button - 9th: "It's been tough all day today and the lap time hasn't been there. On the last run we changed the set-up and it seemed to improve the car quite a bit. What you need at this circuit is confidence and I'm getting more and more confident with the set-up of the car here. We still need to work on our competitiveness for qualifying because we are not there yet."

Rubens Barrichello - 13th: "I think today has shown that it is going to be very hectic in qualifying this weekend with the traffic. Apart from that the car is running well. It's not fast enough at the moment; I'm lacking a lot of traction and we need to work on our race pace. I'm quite confident that the car is quick and we just need to make sure that it's fast enough for Sunday now."

Gil De Ferran - Sporting Director: "Anthony was quite fast over both a short and a long run, especially if you consider how early in the session he achieved his fastest lap. However, as a result of his accident we were unable to complete the whole programme that had been planned for him. Overall we still collected plenty of information to help make a decision on the tyres and to improve the race cars before Saturday. Today also gave us a taste of how hectic and exciting qualifying is going to be!"

Shuhei Nakamoto - Engineering Director: "It was a fairly normal Thursday for us - if you can ever call Monaco normal! This is the second weekend for both race drivers' engines but despite that we have done a lot of laps and have generally been competitive. It was a shame for Anthony to miss out on the chance for Friday pole but he did a lot of laps and helped us to gain vital data."