| Nick Fry, the Chief Executive Officer and Team | | | | long way off beating a Ferrari or a McLaren, which is |
| Principal of the Formula One constructor of Honda, has | | | | clearly where they want to be by the end of the |
| promised Honda's RA107 will be on a par with the | | | | season, and certainly going into next year. |
| Ferraris and McLarens before the end of this season. | | | | But he begs people should not always expect them to |
| Honda entered this year's Championship with a great | | | | go from one point to the front of the grid immediately |
| deal of promise following on from Jenson Button's | | | | because that is totally not possible. |
| breakthrough victory in Hungarian GP of the last | | | | The team principal was also full of praise for Button |
| season. The Brackley squad, however, has failed to | | | | following his first point-scoring result of the season. He |
| live up to the build up. | | | | acknowledges the fact that he admires Jenson's |
| Eight races were struggled by the team to even score | | | | performance as different races passes by. Fry said it |
| their first point of the Championship - came courtesy | | | | is relatively easy to be optimistic when you have a |
| of Button's eighth placed finish in the French GP in | | | | good car and you are doing well, but Jenson really has |
| Sunday. | | | | matured with his professionalism and fighting spirit. Fry |
| Nonetheless, the 50-year old British CEO believes that | | | | added Jenson tries every bit as hard in fighting for 12th |
| point is just the beginning of large things to come for | | | | place on the grid as he does for second or third. He |
| Honda. The boss even went as far as to guarantee | | | | further said that he have known Jason for years and |
| that Honda's RA107 will be competing with the Ferraris | | | | knows that the racer has been better than the year |
| and McLarens before this season is over. | | | | before every year. |
| Fry said when they realized at the start of the year | | | | The Honda boss added also said that he does not see |
| the car was not what they wanted at all, so they have | | | | any reason why Jenson cannot be competing with |
| had to make a lot of revisions in a very short span of | | | | Lewis if they give Jenson the equipment. |
| time. He explains they have had to take a few risks | | | | Honda Racing |
| by doing things which they thought were right, but | | | | Aside from building quality car parts such as Honda |
| without that much knowledge behind it. | | | | Accord parts, Japan's second largest automaker is |
| Now, the team is back on more of a level-playing field | | | | also into racing. |
| and they hope to move forward from here because | | | | Honda entered Formula One as a constructor for the |
| they believe, as the saying goes "one swallow doesn't | | | | first time in the 1964 season at the German Grand Prix |
| make a summer", one point does not make for them | | | | with Ronnie Bucknum at the wheel. |
| either. Fry continued that they are obviously still a long, | | | | |