Nico Rosberg has played down suggestions that
Williams could offer the closest thing to a challenge to
Formula One's current 'big two',
Ferrari and
McLaren, this season, preferring instead to target fourth place in the constructors' championship.
The German and new team-mate
Kazuki Nakajima have both turned in promising testing performances that lifted Williams above its expected rivals - and sometimes above allcomers - but Rosberg remains grounded when it comes to discussing the team's chances of success after several seasons in the doldrums. He describes the new FW30-
Toyota as a 'positive' development of last year's car, but insists that there is not a huge difference between the two.
"I believe fourth in the constructors' standings would be a crazy achievement," the 22-year old insisted to
Auto Motor und Sport, playing down claims that the Grove squad could be chasing podium finishes in 2008, "That, together with a couple of decent results would be great, but it will need good fortune for us to get to the podium - at least one Ferrari and one McLaren-Mercedes must fall out, and then there are the BMWs.... A podium would be cool, but we definitely need some luck."
Instead of dreaming of battling it out at the front of the field, therefore, Rosberg - who has a best
F1 finish of fourth from his two seasons in the top flight - has targeted two of the team's midfield rivals as his target for the year.
"It will be tight [in the midfield], but I think we will be racing against
Red Bull,
Renault and, I hope, BMW-Sauber," he said, "We want to be able to beat Red Bull and Renault this year, but we may also have to watch out for Toyota and Toro Rosso. It is better to think this way than to be very optimistic and then find ourselves twelfth on the grid like last year."
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