By Phil Huff (17/04/2003)
July 17 2003

The FIA's Thursday press conference took place at Silverstone today, and Lucky Strike BAR Honda driver Jenson Button was in attendance. Here's what he had to say... What do you feel not only about this race, but also the next three, given the testing ban? Do you think Friday morning now comes into its own as an advantage?

Obviously there's not a big difference for Justin, not testing, but for us, we've obviously had to work very hard and getting the parts ready for the Barcelona test because we don't get to try anything out before the next races and obviously you want to test stuff before it goes on the car for a race. So hopefully the car is going to be pretty reasonable here because, again, we can't test and we can't get any new parts on the car.

So are things pretty static from here on, in terms of new parts?

Well, they are, yes. Hopefully we've got a reasonable car here and hopefully that will continue.

Jenson, what are your feelings about your home race?

Again, we have to drive exactly the same so to our driving it's no different. But it's great to be at the British Grand Prix because the atmosphere is normally very good, it's good to see Union Jacks where you don't normally see them, at the Grands Prix, and the backing for all the drivers seems to be very good here.

More distractions? You've already done an event for Honda?

And I won, I won the lawnmower race, which I'm very happy about. No, not more distractions really. It's a normal weekend.

How do you feel about the tyre performance recently, and has the testing recently helped with your tyre projections for the next few races?

We've obviously been tyre testing last week, three days. I think we've made a step forward in certain areas so that's positive. We've just got to see if they work well here.

Are you quite confident of that?

Reasonably, yeah.