04/07/2008 20:43. Honda is not yet ready to welcome a driver of the calibre of double F1 World Champion Fernando Alonso, the Japanese outfit's team principal Ross Brawn insists - but one day it might be...

“I think we've got to get ourselves sorted out as a team first before we start aspiring to drivers of that sort,” Brawn told the BBC .

The former Ferrari technical director admitted that Honda has been ‘flattered' by speculation linking Alonso to the team, but insisted that current drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello – both of whom are out of contract at the end of the current season – are ‘very good'.

“Either of them have shown themselves capable of winning races,” he underlined. “Let's wait and see... // crash.net