Rosberg eager to see Red Bull pace in Montreal

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Nico Rosberg is keen to see how quick Red Bull is compared to Mercedes at the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend.

Red Bull won the Spanish Grand Prix after both Mercedes drivers retired on the opening lap, and Daniel Ricciardo should have made it two wins in a row for the team in Monaco but was denied by a pit stop error. Rosberg struggled to seventh in Monte Carlo but says he was prepared for challenging weekends and is interested to learn if Red Bull will provide another test in Canada.

"I expected and prepared myself for some difficult races after the awesome start to the season," Rosberg said. "This is where experience helps me. In the last Grand Prix I hopefully got all of my bad luck out of the way in one race, so onwards and upwards again from now!

"I'm looking forward to heading over to Boston for a sponsor event first and then on to Canada. It's an awesome track and I'm sure our car will be great there too.

"It will be interesting to see where Red Bull are this time. We are hoping to get a little bit ahead of them again, so let's see."

Team boss Toto Wolff agrees the threat from Red Bull has been growing, especially with a major power unit upgrade from Renault being introduced.

"Monaco brought us mixed emotions," Wolff said. "For Lewis, it was just what the doctor ordered. For Nico, a whole lot of bad luck in one race made it a tough afternoon. But the main thing we took away was the very real threat from Red Bull. It took a bold strategy, a big push from Lewis and an even bigger slice of luck with Daniel's slow pit stop to get us that win."

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