With an average of 438 km on a single test dayHonda, an outside tip for championship glory, has been the most reliable formula one team of the 2006 pre-season.
While a similar analysis named the Brackley based outfit as the biggest testers, `Auto Motor Und Sport` now reveals that the Japan-owned camp topped F1`s eleven teams in a study of those least likely to break down this year.
With an average of 438 kilometres on a single test day, the German magazine lists Honda ahead of F1 rival and second most reliable team Renault, which clocks up an average 399km.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Toro Rosso - with a development of last year`s Red Bull car and a V10 engine - came in third (376km), ahead of BMW (355) and Toyota (294).
Ominously, `05 runner up McLaren is just sixth of the eleven teams, with an average of less than 300km per test day, but Ferrari fared even worse, collecting just 278 km per day to finish eighth.
Williams amassed 280km per winter test day, according to Auto Motor Und Sport, MF1 came next (272), then Red Bull (175) and Super Aguri (173).
``I feel very comfortable going into the first race,`` Honda`s Rubens Barrichello said last week.
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