Red Bull is “far ahead” and it will be very difficult for rivals including Mercedes to catch up.<\/p>\n
That is the claim of Nico Rosberg, who after a promising winter campaign for Mercedes struggled for pace in the new silver W02 in Australia.<\/p>\n
“We have to say that Sebastian (Vettel) and Red Bull are far ahead of everyone,” he told Sport Bild.<\/p>\n
“In the chasing field, we want to play a serious role and improve on our fourth place of last year,” added Rosberg.<\/p>\n
The German marque’s motor sport director Norbert Haug also admitted that catching up with Red Bull “will be difficult”.<\/p>\n
Also doubting Mercedes’ ability to catch up by deploying aggressive car development is Helmut Marko, Red Bull’s motor racing consultant.<\/p>\n
“Very few teams can take a car and make it much more competitive — besides us, only Ferrari and McLaren (can),” the Austrian told Sportwoche.<\/p>\n
The first task for Mercedes will be to sort out the obvious problems seen in Melbourne, such as the malfunctioning KERS system.<\/p>\n
“It was strange that it worked for McLaren but not for us,” said Haug.<\/p>\n
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