Mercedes mull response to Lewis Hamilton tactics

He is only the second driver to emulate their father in winning an F1 world title after Keke Rosberg clinched the 1982 championship. “If you want to win the title you have to try everything, as long as it’s within the rules”. The other father-son world championship dup are the late Graham Hill (1962, 1968) and Damon Hill (1996).

Hamilton said he wasn’t annoyed by the team’s instructions but he wondered why didn’t they let them race.

Obeying the orders to the letter, much to the annoyance of his own team, Hamilton duly slowed – at times as much as 9s off his pole-winning time – thereby backing Rosberg into the clutches of.

Nico Rosberg has been crowned the Formula One world champion after surviving a grandstand finish at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

When asked if it was hard to watch the last stint, he replied: “I would say so, yes, it was relatively easy, until the last two laps I thought that we would see something we wouldn’t want to see in the last two laps but luckily it wasn’t to be”. “Thank you for everything”.

Rosberg’s triumph prevented Hamilton from becoming the first Briton to win four world championship crowns. “I’ve done my best ever races this year definitely”.

In the end, his efforts did not work and Rosberg did a good job by holding onto second place from the charging Vettel.

Rosberg, who becomes his country’s third champion after Michael Schumacher and Vettel, held his nerve and position just as he has throughout a season in which he has insisted on taking one race at a time.

“I had Vettel and Verstappen right behind”, he said.

“Tonight’s going to be absolutely nuts”, he said.

When Rosberg enjoyed a trouble-free second pit stop nine laps later, it appeared as though the championship battle was over.

Verstappen, the youngest driver to win an F1 race, has earned a reputation for his risky, borderline unsafe overtaking and has upset other drivers this season.

Last season, Hamilton sealed the championship in style with three races to spare, while in 2014 the title also went down to the final race in Abu Dhabi.

Although there were some calculated pacing as Lewis approaches the end of the race, the strategy still made both Lewis and Rosberg finish ahead from their close F1 competitive races such as Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel, according to Autoblog‘spost.

From their days together as teenage karting teammates to mature Mercedes rivals, Britain’s Hamilton has been the implacable rival against whom the German has measured himself and always come short.

Felipe Massa ended his 250th and last Grand Prix in the points in ninth for Williams.