Honda’s woes hit a new low in Hungary when Rubens Barrichello finished dead last, two laps down, and beaten by a Spyker.
The Brazilian’s teammate Jenson Button was also struggling backmarker until his RA107 broke down.
“Everyone at the team is feeling the pain at the moment,” Rubens said.
As ever in formula one, however, one team’s pain is invariably another’s gain, and Dutch straggler Spyker heralded Adrian Sutil’s 3.6 second victory over Barrichello, a former grand prix winner for Ferrari.
Referring to the minor triumph, technical boss Mike Gascoyne said: “For a team with our limited resources we can be quite proud of this.”
Sutil and teammate Sakon Yamamoto, who spun and crashed just six laps into his formula one return, will race a ‘B’ spec version of the Spyker car in Turkey in three weeks.
Until then there is now a testing ban in place, and most of the leading players in pitlane now take a well earned break.
