Honda team boss Nick Fry is a man with a plan to revitalise the Brackley team's season after a disappointing Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona.

Fry saw Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello finish sixth and seventh respectively in a race dominated by home-hero Fernando Alonso.

Honda were a minute off the pace of the Enstone-based Renault F1 team and Ferrari, but Fry has a masterplan to cut that gap before the end of the season as the team go in search of an elusive maiden win.

He said: "As long as we are learning and we have a plan to move forward, that is acceptable. It's when you don't have a plan that it is unacceptable.

"We still have a whole raft of things we can experiment with, we have another test next week in Vallelunga and we have a lot of ideas on ways to improve the car.

"The new wind tunnel is coming on stream with real results. I can look the drivers in the eye and say there are tangible things we can identify which will help us do better.

"As long as we can do that we are moving forward. We are still frustrated but at least we are moving in the right direction."

The Brackley-based team have only once finished in Formula One's top four but despite sitting in a comfortable fourth this year, there is real frustration at Honda.

In their seven seasons at the top, the team which started life as BAR have only twice scored more in an entire year than the 24 they have after six races of 2006, but Fry is not celebrating that fact.

He added: "If you think you are going to come second, you will come second, there is no point in thinking like that. We want to beat who we can.

"It is clear Renault and Ferrari are doing a better job than the rest of us. We will be giving it hell until the last race and try to do our very best."

Honda's great Japanese rivals Toyota have also had a troubled start to their season and yesterday's Barcelona race only darkened their mood further.

Ralf Schumacher crashed into team-mate Jarno Trulli while battling for points and retired before the Italian finished a downcast tenth.

Toyota boss Tsutomu Tomita has called for an immediate inquest into their poor performances so far in a season which has brought just seven points.

He said: "It looks like we will have to spend a lot of time analysing what went wrong. We have to understand why we could not race at the speed of the top teams.

"Based on the results of our investigations into everything that happened we will seek to improve for the next race. We will have a busy week ahead."

Schumacher's more successful brother, Michael, finished second behind Alonso, with Giancarlo Fisichella taking third ahead of Felipe Massa.