Willis to Prodrive?

(GMM) According to speculation in Britain, Honda's demoted technical director could be eyeing a new top role in F1.

Although Geoff Willis is still on 'mountain-bike leave' after Shuhei Nakamoto was promoted above him, a report by broadcaster 'ITV' claimed that the 46-year-old Englishman could 'in all likelihood (go) straight to the technical director's job at Dave Richards' Prodrive F1 (while) Honda are left without a technical figurehead.'

To Italian magazine Autosprint, Willis broke his silence by denying that he chose to step down in response to Honda's decision to send him to fewer grands prix this year.

''No, it's not because of that,'' he said.

''I still have to talk to (team principal) Nick Fry in order to define several things, but don't ask me to say any more until I can make my position clear.''