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After the promise of yesterday afternoon's free practice session, in which Jenson Button set the third fastest time, today's qualifying session in Valencia ended in disappointment for the Honda Racing F1 Team. Jenson and his team-mate Rubens Barrichello will start tomorrow's European Grand Prix in 16th and 19th positions respectively. Lap times around the 5.440km (3.380-mile) street circuit were extremely close throughout Q1. Jenson set his first flying lap, a 1:38.880s, on the harder of Bridgestone's two tyre compounds and that time placed him in an impressive fifth position after all the drivers had completed one run each. He then waited for the track conditions to improve before switching to the softer and theoretically faster rubber for his final run of Q1, but he had less grip and wasn't able to improve his lap time. ...

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