Honda embarrassed in Hungary
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.
08/05/07 The Honda F1 team received the biggest embarrassment in all of racing Sunday when their driver Rubens Barrichello radioed in to his crew during the race that "the car is so slow I cannot even pass the Spyker in front of me." In fact he never did, finishing behind the Spyker of Adrian Sutil. He was the last place car still running.
Why is Honda still in F1? Like Toyota, year-in-and-year-out they continue to show they are inferior to Ferrari, Mercedes, BMW and Renault. They are spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually to look inferior. Brilliant marketing!