Nico Rosberg Too Weak During Battle with Lewis Hamilton in Bahrain Grand Prix

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Published: April 6, 2014

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The Bahrain Grand Prix witnessed Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, the Mercedes teammates and overwhelming world title favourites, go head-to-head for the first time in the 2014 Formula One season.

We were robbed of a close battle at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, when an engine failure ended Hamilton’s race after two troublesome laps, leaving Rosberg to claim a straightforward, dominant victory.

Hamilton enjoyed a similarly convincing victory a fortnight later in Malaysia, proving his critics—who claimed that he was unsuited to the demands of F1’s new era—completely and utterly wrong on a weekend when he was the class of the field by a distance.

It had been something of a cold war between the Mercedes drivers so far in 2014, with Rosberg and Hamilton taking points off one another and claiming minor moral victories along the way. That suited the former—the supposed cunning, silent assassin—fine.

But in Sakhir, the tables turned to play into the hands of the street fighter, Hamilton, to produce a series of battles that were not too dissimilar to the last time a pair of teammates fought for the lead of a race.

Back then, at the Malaysian Grand Prix of 2013, we saw the difference between a world champion and a mere grand prix winner. Sebastian Vettel played the role of the opportunistic aggressor, defying the orders of his Red Bull team to take the lead and win the race as Mark Webber fought in vain to resist the German.

Webber’s defence on that Sepang afternoon was as robust as you would expect but not convincing in the slightest; you always felt that it was a matter of time until Vettel got past and scampered into the distance. And Vettel did eventually get past at Turn 4 of the Kuala Lumpur circuit when Webber, presumably fearful of a race-ending collision, compromised by leaving a gap the size of a bus on the exit. This allowed Vettel to compl...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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