Honda believe the mid-season break will allow them to fine-tune upgrades to the RA108 for the European Grand Prix in Valencia.
Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello struggled to keep up with the chasing back for most part of the season, but they've improved in recent races after new aerodynamic developments and a revised suspension were fitted to their cars.
Team principal Ross Brawn hopes the team will continue to improve once they've done more testing during the break.
"When you are looking at the improvements we are talking about with the suspension, they are difficult to quantify," he said.
"If you get the dampers working a bit better you know it is better, but how much lap time or how much consistency does that really mean? It is difficult to quantify, so it will be interesting to see how it all works.
"This system has not been fully optimised because we haven't done enough rig testing on it. In the August break we have got some time on rigs to really scan it properly and tune it properly for Valencia."
While he believes they are making progress, Brawn admits they were limited with the final design of the new suspension.
"It is still a fairly heavy compromise in terms of what we have had to achieve within the constraints of the gearbox," he said.
"If that suspension philosophy was designed from scratch it would not be as heavy as it has turned out to be, as we have had to compromise.
"It does not achieve as much as it potentially could have done, because unfortunately we were limited by the existing gearbox and other constraints. But it is a step in the right direction - although there is a limit to what we can do with this car unfortunately."
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