Mar.20 (GMM) It could take more than three years to turn Honda into winners, new team boss Ross Brawn has admitted ahead of the Malaysian grand prix.
The former Ferrari technical director attended Australia last weekend as Honda team principal, but he told the press before the event that he intended to simply sit back and observe the Japanese team with a view to later implementing changes.This week, Brawn is quoted by the Daily Star as warning that - despite a better than expected showing at Albert Park - it will probably take years to get the Brackley squad into shape."I view it as a minimum of a three-year project -- and probably think it could be even more," he said.Brawn said Honda will shortly begin work on the 2009 car, with a view to taking advantage of the radical incoming regulation changes.But even though next year's Honda will be heavily influenced by Brawn, the 53-year-old Briton warned against overly high expectations."I never said I was a technical messiah, I never pretended to be," he said.
