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Willis - Honda must win in 2006

The Honda F1 team must start winning races in 2006, technical director Geoff Willis says. The team has been making very positive noises during winter testing and is talking a good game that the next season will see its break come.

Geoff Willis

"We've certainly started preparing for 2006 in exactly the right way with a quick car in testing and a very successful running of the new Honda V8 engine," Willis said. "Next year's car certainly looks pretty good in terms of wind-tunnel numbers and we've still got another four or five weeks before it starts to run. Winning is clearly very important for us, we really must win races in 2006."

"We must learn not only to win but to win regularly," he added. "I think we're putting everything together in the right way: we've got a very strong driver line-up, another big step on the car and engine as well as a very well integrated team both here in Brackley and in Tochigi over in Japan. There is certainly an underlying current of confidence and a sense that 2006 will be a good year for us."

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