Rosberg: The gap to be closed is big

If Mercedes GP was disappointing for its first season, Nico Rosberg impressed with his pace displayed against his teammate. Nevertheless, he remains lucid about the situation and knows that the gap with the top teams remains significant.

Published on 29/12/2010 à 11:07

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Nico Rosberg may have got ahead of it Michael Schumacher 70 points in the Championship, but he finished in seventh place in the standings. Without having scored a single victory this season, the Silver Arrows were not up to the task of fighting for the title. The disappointment was great for Ross Brawn's men, who looked directly to the 2011 season.

But if the teammate of the seven-time World Champion is impatient to start the next season, he remains realistic about his chances of victory. “The gap that we have to close is of course quite big,” he admits to the SID news agency. “It’s going to take time and I don’t know when we’ll be ready. »

Nevertheless, if Nico Rosberg does not imagine fighting for victory from the start of the 2011 season, he remains optimistic in the abilities of Mercedes GP to raise the level of performance of the Silver Arrows. “Maybe we will be close at the start of the next season,” he adds. “We will have to wait and see, it?s difficult to predict what will happen. But it is certain that we will be better than last year. »