Jenson Button & Fernando Alonso aware top 10 a big ask in Canada

Jenson Button & Fernando Alonso aware top 10 a big ask in Canada

Jenson Button concedes McLaren face a "tricky" task to break their Q3 duck at the seventh attempt in 2015 at the Canadian GP, with team-mate Fernando Alonso simply expecting to qualify "somewhere in the midfield".

The last race in Monaco represented the first time that McLaren had finished in the points since their winter reunion with Honda but the team had already warned against showing similar form around the more power-hungry straights of Montreal ahead of Friday’s practice sessions.

Although heavy rain showers in P2 meant the opening day's running was ultimately truncated, McLaren nonetheless finished the session in 15th and 18th places respectively and Button, whose day began with gearbox problems, says set-up work with the MP4-30 is still required.

"From this morning's session, we immediately knew we'd got a lot of work to do on set-up. However, now, I think we know exactly what we have to do, and it’s already been put in motion," the 2009 world champion said.

"There's a lot of work required, but hopefully we’ll see the results of that tomorrow; I think we will.

"I think qualifying in the top 10 tomorrow may be tricky, but you never know; we’ll see."

Honda, along with Ferrari, have become the first manufacturers this season to spend some of their engine development ‘tokens’ for this weekend, although the Japanese firm aren’t expecting their improvements to be fully felt until the next race in Austria.

Alonso, who finished ninth in P1, appeared happier with the handling of his car on Friday although was circumspect with his expectations for the weekend.

"Overall, then, it’s been an interesting Friday. We tried several things in FP1, all of which seemed to work as we’d expected," he said.

"So far I am happy with the balance of the car, and with the power delivered here, but the features of this track don’t suit our package too well. We’re still several tenths behind to where we want to be. Position-wise, we need to take a step forward, but that’s going to be difficult to accomplish here.

"In tomorrow's qualifying session, we therefore expect to end up somewhere in the midfield."

(fonte: www1.skysports.com)

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