De la Rosa: Jaguar Face Two Months of Struggle

The Jaguar Formula One team will have to wait two months for any great improvement, Spanish driver Pedro de la Rosa warned on Thursday.

"I don't think we are in the position of dreaming about points if the other people don't have big problems," he said at a Spanish Grand Prix news conference. "This is my message and it's a realistic one.

"It's the message of the whole Jaguar Racing team and there's really nothing much more we can add. It's two months. It's not going to be any shorter. I think we are looking at the Silverstone (British) Grand Prix (in July) basically and that's quite a realistic date."

The Ford-owned team scored three points with Briton Eddie Irvine in the opening Australian Grand Prix, but recognise that result was a fluke after half the grid crashed out at the start.

The team has struggled with a car plagued by aerodynamics problems and no faster than last year's.

Sunday's race will be the 50th of de la Rosa's career - the team does not count the 2000 Monaco race which was started again after he had crashed out - and he has scored just six points so far.

"Fifty or 51. It doesn't really matter," he said. "I have very few points to my name, so I think we have a lot of work to do ahead of us."