The RA107 was publicly revealed on 25 February 2007 at the Circuit de Catalunya in Spain, initially in an interim winter testing livery. The full livery was unveiled the following day at the Natural History Museum in London, and the choice of venue was deliberate. For the first time in thirty years, a Formula One car was presented without any commercial sponsorship branding as its primary visual identity. Instead, the car displayed a full-colour image of planet Earth against a black space background — Honda's statement of environmental intent, tied to the My Earth Dream online awareness campaign whose web address appeared on the rear wing.
The only logos on the car were the Honda Type R H badge and the Bridgestone tyre supplier roundel. Honda received two awards at the 2007 Green Awards for the campaign. New commercial partners for the season included Universal Music and Gatorade alongside a number of smaller technology companies, but none of these dominated the visual design.
Shuhei Nakamoto's appointment as lead designer marked a significant change from the previous technical structure. The RA107 proved that the transition came at a competitive cost.
Pre-season testing gave little encouragement. At the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello qualified fourteenth and seventeenth respectively — behind the Super Aguri team, whose SA07 was effectively an updated version of Honda's own 2006 car, the RA106. The irony of being slower than a customer team running their own previous design was not lost on observers.
Honda scored no points in the first seven races of the season. At Monaco the team had their most competitive showing of the early campaign but were compromised by strategy, requiring an extra pit stop that left both drivers outside the points. A similar pattern repeated itself in Canada, where Barrichello was on course for a possible third-place finish before the same strategic miscalculation forced an additional stop, dropping him to twelfth.
Button finally broke the points drought at the French Grand Prix with an eighth-place finish. Barrichello scored his personal best result of the season — ninth — at the British Grand Prix. The European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring showed fleeting promise: Button was running fourth in the opening stages before aquaplaning off the circuit in the rain, one of six drivers to lose control at the same point.
Points came again at Monza, where Button finished eighth for the team's second scoring result. At Shanghai, Button produced what was described as a remarkable wet-weather drive to finish fifth — the car's best result of the entire season — and Honda finally moved ahead of Super Aguri in the standings for the first time. The season ended with both drivers retiring from the Brazilian Grand Prix with overheating engines.
Button finished the season fifteenth in the Drivers' Championship with six points. Barrichello failed to score a single championship point, the first time in his career that had occurred. Honda's eighth-place finish in the Constructors' Championship was the worst result for the Brackley-based team since 2002 and the first season since 2003 in which they had not taken a podium finish.
A modified version of the RA107 was subsequently used by the Super Aguri team in 2008, renamed the Super Aguri SA08. The car served as an affordable development baseline for the smaller team, demonstrating again the close technical relationship between the two Honda-aligned outfits.
The RA107 season ultimately served as evidence of the difficulty of maintaining Formula One competitiveness through a major technical leadership change. The Earth livery, however, endured in public memory long after the car's results were forgotten — an early example of an F1 team using its car as a canvas for brand messaging beyond commercial sponsorship.