Nico Rosberg Needs Williams to Help Him Topple Lewis Hamilton in Brazilian GP

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Published: November 8, 2014

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It took 24 laps for Lewis Hamilton to find his way past Nico Rosberg in last weekend's United States Grand Prix, but the move was, psychologically, completed much earlier than that.

As the world focused on the crash between Sergio Perez, the Force India driver, and Adrian Sutil, his Sauber counterpart, at Turn 15 on the opening lap at the Circuit of the Americas last Sunday, the FOM television feed cut to a shot of one of the leading Mercedes cars rejoining the track just four corners up the road.

Rosberg, the pole-sitter and race leader, had run wide at Turn 19, the tricky left-hander, in his efforts to escape the clutches of Hamilton, who was pursuing his fifth consecutive victory and, more significantly, eager to take a giant step toward his second world championship.  

With the safety car deployed and the race neutralised to allow Sutil's stricken Sauber to be removed from the accident site, Rosberg was not sufficiently punished for his error, made little more than a minute into a 56-lap race.



Yet that brief off-track excursion set the tone for the remainder of the grand prix and there was a great sense of inevitability that Hamilton, at some point, would overtake his team-mate and ultimately win the race with ease, tightening his grip on the 2014 title.

Less than seven days after his surrender in the Austin, Texas event, Rosberg will face a similar situation when he lines up on the grid at the Interlagos grid for Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix.

Again, he will start from the very front of the field having secured his 10th pole position of the campaign, a result that ensures that he will become the inaugural winner of Formula One's Pole Position Trophy.



And again, Hamilton will begin the race just a few metres behind his Mercedes colleague.

Unlike last weekend, however—and, indeed, much of this season—the Silver Arrows should h...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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