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Jenson Button has told Reuters that the 07 Honda is not on pace and the team are playing catch-up.

This is not news, the Honda has not been quick all through the winter testing. It seems that the teams 2006 bugbear has shown it’s head again, Tyres.

The team struggled with the tyres in the early part of last season, but seemed to get the hang of it towards mid season. However it looks like the switch to Bridgestone has not helped.

Also the Earth scheme on the car has come about through struggling to find an official sponsor for this season after the tobacco ban coming into full effect.

Button said “We still have another test in Bahrain where we have a lot of things to test. Hopefully they are going to help the car because we are not on the same pace as the Ferraris, the McLarens or the BMWs.”

“I don’t think you can really tell too much from the lap times in testing, I feel the initial car was not quite where we wanted it to be but we’ve definitely improved.

“We understand the car a lot more on these tyres, because that was the major issue; it’s just finding our way on these tyres.”

“We’re not quite there…but all we can do is get our heads down and hopefully improve the car as soon as possible,” said Button. “We are definitely going in the right direction.”

Let’s hope that the Honda team do get their heads around the cars lack of performance.