Nico Rosberg Can’t Catch Lewis Hamilton in Bahrain Grand Prix Qualifying

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Published: April 18, 2015

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The 2015 Formula One season has barely started, but Nico Rosberg must feel his chances of winning the Drivers' Championship are already slipping away.

On Saturday in Bahrain, his Mercedes team-mate, Lewis Hamilton, captured his fourth straight pole position, hammering home another nail in Rosberg's proverbial coffin.

Just before Rosberg started his final qualifying lap, the BBC's David Coulthard said, "There are many races to go, but you just get the feeling this is a session where he needs to get in front of Lewis Hamilton."

He wasn't even close. Hamilton's final lap was more than half-a-second quicker than Rosberg's. Even worse, Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel split the two Silver Arrows and will start alongside Hamilton on the front row in Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix. Rosberg will start directly behind his team-mate.



In the post-qualifying press conference, Rosberg looked dejected, annoyed and perhaps confused. Confused that a man in the same car—a man who he out-qualified in 12 of 19 races last season—has now beaten him to pole position at every grand prix this season (and finished ahead of him in all three races, so far).

As the German becomes more and more desperate for a positive result, he has been trying new tricks almost every week.

In the offseason, he tried to improve his breathing behind the wheel. At the Chinese Grand Prix, he complained that Hamilton was holding him up, despite his inability to close the gap between them. Earlier this week, per ESPN F1's Laurence Edmondson, he said he was studying video from his duel with Hamilton at last year's Bahrain race, where Hamilton came out on top.

On Saturday, in the press conference, Rosberg said he had compromised his own qualifying performance by preserving his tyres in Q2 (which he will have to start the race on), which supposedly messed up his rhythm and did not allow him to put in his best lap i...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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