Nico Rosberg Running out of Ideas in Battle with Mercedes Rival Lewis Hamilton

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Published: March 16, 2015

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Nico Rosberg may have been down and out, but he was by no means disheartened as he conducted his final round of post-race interviews at the end of the 2014 Formula One season.

The German had entered the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix just 17 points behind Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton, and with pole position in his pocket, he had a relatively good chance of ending the night with his first world championship in the bag.



Yet the biggest race of his life didn't go to plan.

An average getaway from the start line seemed near-disastrous in direct comparison to Hamilton's ferocious take off, which allowed the British driver to take an unobstructed lead into the first turn, from where he built a decent but hardly unassailable lead. 



Rosberg's grand prix, though, took a turn for the worse at the halfway stage when his W05 Hybrid developed a power unit problem, forcing him to lap several seconds off the pace as he dropped like a stone through the field, ultimately finishing a lap down in 14th.

But despite losing the title at the last round of the year, despite his car failing to offer him the chance to fight for it on even ground and despite being outclassed by Hamilton in all but one of the final seven race weekends of the year, Rosberg retained a startling degree of optimism.



After congratulating Hamilton and briefly reflecting on their eight month-long game of cat and mouse, Rosberg turned his attention to his 2015 prospects, telling Sky Sports' Pete Gill and James Galloway:

It was very close between Lewis and I but I need to work on the racing a little bit. I’ve been better as a qualifier for the last two years so that is something I can really build on. I need to find a little bit in the racing and I am going to find a little bit.

I know what the area is and I am going to push for that.

Such was his confidence in not on...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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