''We have to perform this season'' - EeckelaertHonda's Engineering Director Jacky Eeckelaert has rejected suggestions that the team is already considering 'writing off' the 2007 season.
The Japanese squad is grappling with a fundamental aerodynamic flaw with its
uncompetitive RA107, but despite whispers of a 'B' car for the Canadian Grand Prix, Eeckelaert said Honda will not give up on the current concept.
"As a works team you can't write off the season - you're not allowed to do that," he is quoted as saying by the magazine Motorsport News. "We have to perform this season – and to get there we have a plan."
Far from simply improving the RA107 racer, however - which in the hands of
Rubens Barrichello and
Jenson Button is yet to finish a race on the lead lap - it is understood that
Honda are still focusing on identifying exactly where the car's problems lie.
Source GMM
