Don't sack Honda staff

(GMM) Honda should resist the urge to react to its current crisis by firing staff, Jenson Button said in Malaysia.

As in Australia, the Briton and his teammate Rubens Barrichello are at Sepang again the slowest works runners in the entire field, leading 27-year-old Button to call for "big changes" to the RA107 single seater.

But he denied that Honda needs sweeping changes on the personnel side.

"There is no use firing people just to show the outside world that you are doing something about it," he was quoted as saying in the Times.

"That is not going to help at all."

Button suggested, however, that slowly chipping away with the disappointing Earth-liveried car is not going to be enough.

He explained: "There is no point in making small steps forward and finding a couple of hundredths. We need big changes.

"That is what we are working on."