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Honda set to switch focus to 2009

Honda will only make one more major upgrade to its current car after the Spanish Grand Prix update before shifting focus completely to the 2009 machine, in readiness for the radical rule changes tabled for next season.

"The step for Barcelona is not of the magnitude of what we did between the launch and Melbourne, but it's somewhere inbetween and it's a good step," Honda team principal Ross Brawn told Autosport. "It's fairly traditional for all the teams to make a step for the first European race, so we've got to take that into consideration, but I'm very pleasd with the way things are developing."

"Our plan is probably to do one more update for the middle of the season, and then I think we'll be focusing that resource totally on 2009," he added. "The 2009 programme has started already but as each month goes by, we move more and more resource onto it. And the mid-season update, I guess the aero work will finish late May, early June, and then the focus will be on next year."

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