Honda still have a lot of work to do to prepare for next week’s Belgian Grand Prix insists British ace Jenson Button.

The Anglo-Japanese squad arrived at Valencia last week with high hopes for their improved RA108 challenger around the high-speed street circuit.

Honda are hoping for intervention from the safety car in today’s European Grand Prix after a disastrous showing in qualifying left Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello languishing at the back of the field with their work cut out in the 57-lap race.

“I’m not worried,” was the message that Honda’s Jenson Button fired to Fernando Alonso both on and off the track at Valencia.

Speculation about Alonso’s future reached fever pitch in the F1 paddock at Valencia after Rubens Barrichello confirmed on Thursday that Honda are stepping up their efforts to lure the double world champion to the team for 2009.

Jenson Button has shown he is still every bit the racer that charged through the rain-induced chaos to victory in Hungary in 2006 after delivering a sensational lap in qualifying on Saturday that well-and-truly transcended the capabilities of his Honda - one that puts him just outside the top ten for the start of today’s Hungarian Grand Prix.