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Dennis doesn't expect BMW to stay competitive

According to McLaren team boss Ron Dennis the BMW Sauber F1 team won't stay as strong throughout the season as they were in the opening rounds of the season. According to Dennis his team will continue strong developments in the upcoming months while he expects BMW Sauber to be unable to keep up with the developments throughout the year.

When asked if BMW Sauber F1 will be McLaren's consistent threat, Dennis was quoted by our colleagues at autosport.com saying: "No. I think that we respect all competitors and they're doing a better job than they've done at any other time in their involvement in F1.

"But it is when we get to Europe that the R&D and speed of manufacture starts to make a difference. We'll be very strong and I'm not at all unduly worried about the future. It will be a fight right through the season."

"As I said before we even started to race in Australia: these first three Grands Prix don't really represent the pace of a Grand Prix team. I presume everybody thinks we go back to England and the pace of development carries on, but maintaining the cars at this sort of range is challenging. So you're really focused on achieving reliability and getting a consistency in your performance (in these three races).

"The next race will see all the accumulated development of the last two months come onto the car and we'll have to see who's done the best job. "We're pretty confident we can make a good step but whether it's a bigger step than anybody else, time will tell."

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