Mercedes Boss Says Reliability Issues Solved

Mercedes-Benz has solved the reliability problems that plagued the McLaren team at the start of the season, according to the German company's motorsport boss Norbert Haug.

"Our reliability issues are addressed," said Haug after Kimi Raikkonen scored his first pole position of the season ahead of tomorrow's British Grand Prix.

"I think the guys are working in the right direction, we did a lot of long runs on the Stuttgart dyno, and in testing we had close to 800km. We even took Kimi's engine that only ran roughly 460km in Magny Cours because of the weather to Stuttgart and ran another 300 plus kilometres on it.

"So we should be in quite good shape â€" it is close to the limit, and I think we made quite significant steps in both power and reliability and more steps will follow. We are definitely going to be back where we have to be, where our targets are, our goals are â€" there are others ahead of us, but I think we are headed in the right direction."

Finn Raikkonen retired from the first three races of the year and both him and teammate David Coulthard suffered more engines problems as their team endured their worst start to a season in decades.