Nico Rosberg

Nico Erik Rosberg, son of Keijo "Keke" Erik Rosberg, is about to have his 100th Grand Prix meeting this weekend in Hungary.

I was about to write my "best wishes" to him in 'his' thread...but I couldn't find one...so, I figured I might as well start it off.

What is very interesting is that his father, Keke, took part in 114 Grand Prix races in his entire Formula One career, winning 5 of them - all for Williams from 1982 to 1985 - as well as a World Championship.

It's interesting in that Nico is approaching that number quickly and he's already about to finish off his 6th season in a few months...but without a win to his name...and no win in sight given the current pecking order of the cars.

Some say Nico is a great talent...while others say he hasn't fared well against quality teammates in their prime, so it's hard to judge. Mark Webber is, seemingly, his only reasonable benchmark and that was way back in his rookie season in a car that was one of the worst ones ever constructed by Williams.

What are people's thoughts on Nico Rosberg?

Regardless, Godspeed to Nico on the occassion of his 100th Grand Prix this weekend!

 

[Jos the Boss]

Lewis was ahead for the rest of the race as well, if Nico had the pace, he could have passed him at any stage before

 

[RickD]

HammydiRestarules - Post 393 explains nothing.

 

[Josh]

I may be wrong but I'm sure Brawn said to the BBC that Lewis would probably have run out of fuel running behind Nico so they held station.

Why? Because he would be running in the dirty air? Or another reason?

 

[Mephistopheles]

Michael repaid Rubinho for Austria 2002 with Indy

Not really...

 

[Mephistopheles]

I may be wrong but I'm sure Brawn said to the BBC that Lewis would probably have run out of fuel running behind Nico so they held station.

How does that work?

 

[landogeorgelewis1]

RickD and Mephistopheles

Can I just draw a close to this from my part and say we agree to disagree on this matter?

 

[Mephistopheles]

I've got no problem with that HammydiRestarules

 

[Lewywo4]

Lewis was ahead for the rest of the race as well, if Nico had the pace, he could have passed him at any stage before

I agree Jos......i'm not trying to take away anything from Nico's excellent performance today. If Rosberg was so much faster than Hamilton, then why wasn't he able to make a pass on Lewis, especially after the first series of pit stops.

 

[RickD]

Lewywo4 - Probably because he had more fuel..

 

[Mephistopheles]

You may agree with it Lewywo4 but it isn't relevant to the argument, just because someone leads more laps doesn't give them the right to finish ahead of another driver, it isn't Nico's fault Lewis was underfueled and being low on fuel makes a car faster until it wants to run dry and needs to be conserved, so basically Lewis got an advantage by being light on fuel and was allowed to keep that advantage by team orders....

 

[Mephistopheles]

All I want is to see racing drivers racing each other it isn't to much to ask from a sport that is meant to be about racing is it?

 

[Brogan]

Try the BTCC or some other series.

F1 has had team orders for as long as the sport has existed.

 

[KekeTheKing]

All I want is to see racing drivers racing each other it isn't to much to ask from a sport that is meant to be about racing is it?

Did you miss the part when Lewis and Nico passed each other 4 times in 2 laps?

 

[Mephistopheles]

Not relevant to the outcome they could pass each other a million times and it wouldn't make a difference....

 

[ExtremeNinja]

they would probably fall back in the race quite a bit. That would be an epic squabble.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Try the BTCC or some other series.

F1 has had team orders for as long as the sport has existed.

Except for the time when it didn't have them, team orders were banned because of Ferrari and they were reintroduced because of Ferrari..

 

[Mephistopheles]

What's the point in racing if the outcome is fixed KekeTheKing

 

[KekeTheKing]

When Nico outqualifies Hamilton and/or leads him in a race we might find out something.

 

[Fenderman]

The problem, IMHO, is that the current "Hamilton is No.1 at Mercedes" position is based on the premise that Ross Brawn, and by default Lewis Hamilton, is a liar. What happened today is in no way substantive evidence that that is the case. It really is unacceptable to level such an accusation at anyone on a public forum with such scant supposition and lack of respect for the parties involved. It would be a breath of fresh air if some folk's would rise above such utter bollocks and refrain from demeaning themselves by perpetuating such.

 

[KekeTheKing]

I still don't even know your point Rick

Was Nico pissed, yeah. Did he deserve to be, yeah. Does this mean he has been relegated to clear number 2 status, absolutely not.

Edit- Thanks for adding some tact here Fender. your post says everything that needs to be said