Lewis Hamilton Steals the Show from Nico Rosberg with 2015 Monaco GP Pole

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Published: May 23, 2015

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Considering his recent form at the circuit, you'd have been forgiven for assuming Nico Rosberg was on course to displace Albert II as the Prince of Monaco.

Not since the days of Ayrton Senna, who won six Monaco grands prix in seven years in the late 1980s and early '90s, has a driver established such an intimate, harmonious bond with that two-mile long stretch of track as Rosberg has in the last three campaigns.



Less than a second away from stealing the win from Mark Webber in 2012, the German secured a pole-to-flag victory in '13—30 years since his father, 1982 world champion Keke Rosberg, claimed his solitary win at Monaco—and repeated the feat last season at a venue where he grew tall and continues to reside.

For an adolescent Rosberg, the Casino Square complex might not have been one of the most iconic corners in Formula One, but simply a place where he crossed the road on his way to school each morning.



The seafront section—stretching all the way from Portier, through the tunnel, the Nouvelle Chicane and Tabac to La Rascasse—may not have provoked thoughts of grand prix racing, but memories of innocently tossing stones into the Mediterranean Sea as he toddled along the quayside.

Such an intricate knowledge of, and familiarity with, the region has almost seemed to have given Rosberg, particularly since he gained access to race and championship-winning cars, a head start, if not an unfair advantage, over his peers.



After Graham Hill's dominance in the '60s and Senna's stranglehold, Rosberg had become the modern-day Mr Monaco.

And according to BBC F1's Twitter account, he entered this weekend with the chance of cementing his place in the heart of Monte Carlo folklore by becoming only the second driver to claim three consecutive pole-to-flag victories.



Yet the German's abiding grip on the event wa...
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