Nico Rosberg Shows He Is a Real F1 Title Contender with Austrian Grand Prix Win

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Published: June 21, 2015

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Twice in the last four Formula One grands prix, Nico Rosberg has done something he struggled to do at all in 2014: He has beaten his teammate and championship rival Lewis Hamilton head-to-head in a fair fight.

"I think this year I found what I needed to find last year in terms of race [pace], y’know, and just doing a little bit better in the races and that’s really working out for me this year," Rosberg said in the press conference after taking his third win in four races on Sunday at the Austrian Grand Prix (he also beat Hamilton in Spain and Monaco, although the latter was hardly a straight fight).

Hamilton won nine of 11 races from the 2014 Italian Grand Prix to this year's Bahrain race, taking the drivers' title last season and opening a 27-point lead in the 2015 championship race (larger than his lead at any time last year, aside from after the final race).

Now, the gap is back down to 10 points and the plucky yet measured Rosberg is showing himself to be a real threat to Hamilton's hopes for a repeat.

That is good for the sport, as the expected (or at least hoped for) challenge from Ferrari has failed to materialize, despite Sebastian Vettel's victory in Malaysia and the team's recently upgraded power unit.

In Canada two weeks ago, the Scuderia had the pace, but they were unable to capitalize on it when Vettel qualified at the back of the grid and Kimi Raikkonen threw away a likely podium with a spin at the hairpin.

In Austria, Raikkonen lost control on the first lap and ended up underneath Fernando Alonso's McLaren. Vettel, meanwhile, looked headed for the podium until a long pit stop dropped him behind Felipe Massa's Williams.



Mercedes have not been perfect this season, either—look at Hamilton's Monaco fiasco or qualifying in Austria, where both drivers spun on their final flying lap—but such is their performance advantage that they can ge...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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