Pedro de la Rosa insists he is not afraid to admit he will tackle next weekend’s Australian grand prix at the wheel of the “worst” car.<\/p>\n
“We will have a difficult year,” said the veteran Spaniard, who is yet to actually drive HRT’s newly-launched F112.<\/p>\n
“It will also be interesting because the team is 80 per cent new,” added the 41-year-old former Arrows, Jaguar and Sauber driver, who for years was McLaren’s main test driver.<\/p>\n
“We should not be afraid to admit that we are the worst, but we must have the ambition to not stay that way,” he told Antena 3 television.<\/p>\n
“Our goal is to finish races, stop being the last across the line and to grow, trying to close the gap to pole position.”<\/p>\n
The next stop, he said, is the Melbourne pitlane.<\/p>\n
“The team is packing up everything and preparing a second chassis.\u00a0 Tomorrow night it is all put onto planes and sent to Australia.<\/p>\n
“I leave on Monday,” revealed de la Rosa.<\/p>\n
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