Nico Rosberg’s Anger with Lewis Hamilton Shows Why He Won’t Become F1 Champion

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Published: April 17, 2015

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Do you view Formula One as a team sport? Or one of individuals, who only unite when circumstances dictate they must?

After a Chinese Grand Prix that saw Nico Rosberg throw his biggest tantrum yet, accusing his Mercedes colleague Lewis Hamilton of failing to play the team game, that question is more relevant than ever.

F1, and indeed motor racing, is unlike any other sport when it comes to the issue of team spirit. 



Rather than working together to grind down the opposition—as, for example, football and cricket outfits would—Formula One team-mates conspire against one another with the principal, if not sole, aim of beating the man on the other side of the garage.

In a sport in which only two people have access to equal machinery at any given time, how a driver performs alongside their team-mate reveals much about their respective qualities, strengths, weaknesses and potential.

It is this basic principle upon which the most ferocious, intense rivalries in the history of sport have been built, from Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet's tit-for-tat battle at Williams in 1986 and '87 to the struggle between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost at McLaren-Honda over '88 and '89.



These conflicts, at the height of successful periods for both Williams and McLaren, were by-products of the desire, the need, the urge to be faster and faster, to become better and better. 

In the short time Mercedes have conquered F1, since the V6 turbo regulations were introduced at the beginning of 2014, comparisons have often been drawn—as they so often are when two drivers wearing the same overalls win many races—between Rosberg-versus-Hamilton and Prost-versus-Senna.

And although some similarities do exist, mostly in terms of the drivers' contrasting approaches—one is a hard-charging, relentless racer, the other relies on his methodical, meticul...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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