We wrote that Pedro de la Rosa returned to the paddock this year as an ambassador for Aston Martin. After winter testing, this team is said to be almost third fastest, but in the F1 Nation podcast, the Spaniard called this estimate too high.
Pedro de la Rosa: “Third place is too risky a prediction. I’m not sure if that’s the case. We won’t know the answer until after qualification. It’s hard to judge the competitiveness of one fast lap in testing, but if you evaluate the results of the simulated races that all the teams ran, we were really fast.
When Fernando drove a simulated race in the evening on the final day of testing, tire wear was minimal. He wasn’t the fastest, but his car’s tire degradation was less than the other drivers. This factor may play a role.
We must set ourselves high goals. We are ambitious, we want to feel that the work everyone is doing at the grassroots is paying off, why not. Third team or fourth – we’ll see.
In any case, the tests were positive. We learned a lot, but the same will certainly be said in other teams. In winter testing, everything is always the same: short sets of circles, long sets of circles, five rubber compounds. You don’t know anything about your opponents based on their results and you can only judge your own progress compared to last season.”
Source: F1 News
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