Honda’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 GP, 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.
