Development race plus reliability the keyPedro de la Rosa may not be racing for McLaren Mercedes this year, but he is keeping tabs on the development of the MP4-22 package. The Spanish test driver believes that the highlight of the first three races of the season is that
Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton are tied at the top of the championship standings with rival
Kimi Raikkonen.
"Fernando learns anything very quickly, and Lewis has been around the team for some time," de la Rosa told the official McLaren web site. "For Fernando it is incredible how quickly he has learnt everything about the team, when you consider he only had one day testing in December last year and hasn’t really had a long time with Vodafone
McLaren Mercedes, but he has already won a race."
De la Rosa is not testing with the team next week in Barcelona, buy has spent some time at the McLaren Technology Centre working with the engineers and on the simulation programme.
"We have been very solid from the start and we’ve proved people who thought that Ferrari were going to walk away with the first few races wrong," he continued. "The objective is not only to continue to fight; it is to win the Championships. The team that will win the Championship is the team that will develop their car better and faster whilst maintaining high reliability."
Source McLaren Mercedes
