Nico Rosberg: “I just didn’t have the speed…”

Nico Rosberg says Mercedes has a lot of work to do after he finished only fifth in Canada, two places behind team mate Lewis Hamilton.

The race underlined that Monaco was a blip, and the team is still struggling to get its tyres to work on race days.

“Not great, I just didn’t have the speed really to do better than fifth place,” said Rosberg. “So from that point of view it’s just damage limitation and good points. Our reference point today as a team is where Lewis was, which was third, and that shows that we definitely need to make further progress, not just in how we manage the tyres and everything.

“On one lap we had the fastest car, but we’re still struggling a little bit in the race, not able to do better than third place.”

Regarding the next race at Silverstone he said: “Some work to do for us, because with those high speed corners it could be quite heavy on the tyres. But I think we’ll be OK.”