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Car to get track time in January
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(GMM) The 2006 works Honda car will make its track debut 'sometime' in January.
That's the revelation of 'BAR' chief designer Kevin Taylor, who reckons the team's new 100 per cent owner - Japanese carmaker Honda - has been 'instrumental' in much of the new racer's design.
''And I'm sure this process will keep expanding,'' said Kevin, who was promoted in June.
Excitingly for the Brackley based team, nine time race winner
Rubens Barrichello will pilot one of the '008' machines in 2006. Taylor admitted that BAR would squeeze as much information as possible out of the Brazilian.
''We'd be fools not to quiz him on what's made
Ferrari so successful,'' the designer confessed.
'''We'll listen to him ... to see if there are things we don't do that we should be doing.''
Taylor also said Rubens' proven ability to win grands prix gives BAR a 'baseline', even if he thinks
Jenson Button could, too, be a winner.
He continued: ''But that question hasn't been answered yet.''
So does Taylor think team principal Nick Fry's target of 'plural' race wins next year is reasonable? ''I'd say we're pretty confident,'' he said.
''If we hit our targets, I'm sure we'll be right on the button.''
Written: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:33:06