“If someone said 'Here is 100 pounds, you have got to put it on a driver', I would probably put it on Lewis. I think McLaren have done a very good job over the winter, everything I hear indicates that,” revealed Mosley during a short media session with selected reporters on Thursday.
He motivated his decision by the fact that main rivals Ferrari have been rather late on developing their 2009 programme and could pay tribute to several management changes this year. Kimi Raikkonen's former race engineer Chris Dyer will take on a new coordinating role in the engineering department, while former Toro Rosso team manager Massimo Rivola will manage the sporting activity and logistics, regulations and circuits. Several other minor changes were announced by team manager Stefano Domenicali just before Christmas.
“Ferrari are still really getting their act together after a big management change whereas I don't think the management change at McLaren is so big, it is more continuity. But I may be completely wrong and it could be someone unexpected like Kubica, for example. I just don't know, or Alonso. But if you had to bet at the moment you would bet on Lewis,” continued Mosley.
Ron Dennis, former team principal of McLaren, also pointed out that Ferrari, BMW and Renault should pose the most problems in the manufacturers race, but also underlined that there will certainly be a “dark horse” in 2009.
“There'll also be a dark horse. I'm not sure who that'll be yet, but there will be a dark horse,” Dennis said in an interview for F1 Racing magazine.
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