de la Rosa will Race German Grand Prix for McLaren
Quote selected text Published July 19th, 2006 in MainPedro de la Rosa will definitely race for McLaren Mercedes at the upcoming German Grand Prix, according to reports in his native Spain. The 35-year-old test driver was called up at short notice to replace NASCAR-bound Juan Pablo Montoya at Magny Cours, but his longer term role remains unclear in the challenge of British chargers Gary Paffett and Lewis Hamilton.
But AS newspaper quotes McLaren Mercedes CEO Martin Whitmarsh as praising de la Rosa’s French form, and urging him to do even better when he gets a second ride at Hockenheim next weekend. “He was on Kimi’s pace,” Whitmarsh reportedly said, with comments that coincided with de la Rosa’s faster time head-to-head with Paffett at the Jerez test.
Whitmarsh admitted that de la Rosa lost a place to Mark Webber in the French GP, and struggled a little with the novel qualifying system, but confirmed: “Pedro will be in Germany and I am sure he will also do a good job there.” The same newspaper, meanwhile, revealed that McLaren engineers have ‘praised’ de la Rosa after Magny Cours ‘and want to keep him in the car until the end of the year’.
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