London : Mercedes team’s Formula One driver Nico Rosberg has admitted that he doesn’t feel ecstatic about winning races when team-mate and title rival Lewis Hamilton has been handicapped by unreliability.
After securing his seventh consecutive win with a straightforward victory in Russian Grand Prix on Sunday, Rosberg has opened up a 43-point lead at the top of the world championship. While Rosberg has enjoyed a trouble-free start to the new campaign, reigning champion Hamilton, who has previously beaten Rosberg in every season of their three-year partnership, has been waylaid by two engine failures and three separate first-corner collisions.
“Winning is great and what I’m here for. But the ecstatic feeling isn’t there, it’s there when l win a battle with Lewis, that’s what gives the ultimate thrill.” – Nico Rosberg
Hamilton, meanwhile, defended his Mercedes team but admitted he doesn’t understand why the world champions swapped personnel from one side of their garage to the other during the winter in an apparent bid to improve team harmony.
