Pedro de la Rosa reckons Lewis Hamilton has the potential to win this year's World title as long as McLaren keep improving.
Thanks to his victory in Sunday's Monaco GP Hamilton has taken the lead in the Drivers' standings. The 23-year-old holds a three-point advantage over Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen with Felipe Massa a further point adrift.
Leading the standings, though, isn't new to Hamilton who held the advantage for a large part of last year's Championship before losing it at the final hurdle to Raikkonen.
De la Rosa, though, believes this year Hamilton can make amends but only if McLaren continue to improve their MP4-23.
"Hamilton is very confident and if he fulfills his promise of scoring 15 consecutive podiums, he may win the title," the Spanish test driver said during the opening of Madrid's motor show.
"We have won two races out of six and we have been closer to Ferrari on the tracks where they beat us by much in 2007, but we must keep on improving the car because the Championship is very long. We already lost it by one point last year."
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