Former F1 driver Pedro de la Rosa expects Mercedes to retain its advantage this year, as the team's past form gave it the opportunity to start earlier on 2017 aero development than its main rivals. The former McLaren driver believes that the Brackley team was able to devote more of its rationed wind tunnel time to the new project last year because it was already so far ahead of the field - and that other teams will now struggle to catch up. "I'm pretty sure Mercedes has been working in the wind tunnel longer than anyone," de la Rosa told Motorsport.com. "You're limited by wind tunnel hours, and everyone is using the maximum amount of hours now. So the differentiator is the...
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