Nico Rosberg Must Fight Back at 2 Races Which Play to His Strengths

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Published: April 22, 2015

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Nico Rosberg is facing a crossroads in his Formula One career. One path leads to race wins, title challenges and champagne; the other to the end of his days as an equal No. 1 at Mercedes.

Team-mate Lewis Hamilton's flying start to the 2015 season has seen him win three of the first four races and finish second in the other. On each occasion, he has qualified ahead of Rosberg and comfortably beaten him in the race.

The gulf between the pair has been so great that many bookmakers on Oddschecker now list Rosberg as a huge 10-1 shot for the drivers' title.

Meanwhile, a Ferrari resurgence has seen Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen emerge as genuine threats to the previously all-conquering Mercedes team.

The points gap between Rosberg and Hamilton stands at 27 points after four races, with Sebastian Vettel just one point further back in third. If—as seems entirely likely, given their incredible rate of development over the winter—Ferrari can find even a couple of tenths, Mercedes may have to look at prioritising one driver over the other to ensure races, and maybe even titles, are won.

If Hamilton steamrolls Rosberg at the next few races, there'll be no prizes for guessing who that will be.

But call it fate, luck, geography, anything you like—the next two races present the German with some of the best opportunities he'll get all year to beat Hamilton and force the team to—for now at least—maintain their policy of letting their drivers compete.



The 2014 season proved beyond reasonable doubt that Hamilton is a better race driver than Rosberg. The Brit achieved 11 race wins to his team-mate's five, passed Rosberg on numerous occasions and was, at the majority of races, the quicker of the two over a grand prix distance.

But over a single qualifying lap, the duo were more evenly matched. Where both were able to do a Q3 lap, Rosberg out-qu...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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