Can Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg Both Stay at Mercedes in 2015?

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Published: September 16, 2014

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Not since the days of Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost has Formula One seen such a bitter rivalry between two team-mates.

Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg started the year on good terms. Childhood friends and close neighbours in the principality of Monaco, they had already spent a year as team-mates without any significant issues.

Hamilton even revealed to Formula1.com earlier in the year that he'd been storing his safe in Rosberg's apartment for several months. Though they weren't the best of buddies—no two racing drivers in the same series could be—by F1 standards, they were friends.

But once it became clear the title race was going to be a two-horse Mercedes canter, fears their relationship would not last the distance emerged.

Those fears were realised after only six races.



Small cracks had begun to show. Rosberg used a restricted engine mode to attempt to pass Hamilton in Bahrain, then Hamilton did the same to defend his lead in Spain.

But they were minor incidents, easily forgiven and forgotten, and nothing compared to what was coming next.

During qualifying for May's Monaco Grand Prix, Rosberg had provisional pole from Hamilton by just 0.059 seconds after their opening runs. Both went out for a second run towards the end of the session, Rosberg around 15 seconds up the road from Hamilton.

After a scruffy first sector the German was 0.124 seconds down on his best. Braking a touch later than on his previous lap, he locked up and went straight on down the escape road at Mirabeau.

He then reversed back towards the track.

Yellow flags—which may or may not have been prolonged due to Rosberg's reversing, rather than continuing up the road to park—came out to advise the other drivers of the hazard. They ruined several final qualifying laps, one of them Hamilton's.

Whether the German, knowing he was down on ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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