Jenson Button says his Honda Formula 1 team is playing catch-up already with less than three weeks to go before the season-opener in Australia on March 18.
The 27-year-old said: "We've improved a lot but we're still not where we want to be. We still have another test in Bahrain where we have a lot of things to test.
"I hope they are going to help the car because we are not on the pace of the Ferrari's, the McLarens or the BMWs."
Button took his first GP win with Honda in Hungary in August 2006 and was optimistic about a championship challenge before the new RA107 ran for the first time in Spain in January 2007 'We are not on the same pace as the Ferrari's, the McLarens or the BMW's'.
The car's performances in pre-season testing have been lackluster if compared with the speed of rivals. The F1 grapevine is already buzzing with speculation that Ferrari could be stunningly quick very slow in Melbourne; McLaren has also been an early pacesetter although a question remains about reliability.
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