Rosberg at the beginning of the season to reduce the backlog

On Monday in Jerez team Mercedes introduced the new W04. Speaking about the goals for the upcoming season, Nico Rosberg said that the main thing is to catch up to rivals. . .

Nico Rosberg: "I am confident in their abilities, but do we start the season with one of the fastest cars, as it was a year ago? In this I am not sure.

At the end of last season we seriously lost, and the main thing now is to reduce this gap. That is our main goal in the first race, and I am confident that we will be able to do it. It is very important to add in the rate of modification of the machine during the season, because in the middle of last season we had greatly lost because of this".

Before the official presentation Nico Rosberg drove a few laps behind the wheel of the Mercedes W04 for promotional filming, and was pleased with how everything went: "a Great start! Everything went according to plan, I was able to attack. The machine is well balanced, now I'm getting ready for the first real test day. In the winter we made a big step forward. The team did a great job on the base, we have made progress in all areas".