Nico Rosberg

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Nico Eric Rosberg is a professional motorsports racer from Germany and he is currently driving on the Formula 1 circuit for the Mercedes GP Formula One team. Although Rosberg races in Formula 1 under the German flag, in his earlier career he has raced under the flag of Finland as he holds passports of both the countries having dual nationality. Rosberg was born on the 27th of June, 1985 in the Wiesbaden region of the erstwhile West Germany. His father is Keke Rosberg, who was the Formula One world champion during the 1982 season. Keke is Finnish while Nico’s mother Sina is German, thus, he gets to hold a dual passport of the European Union. Much of Nico’s childhood was spent in the principality of Monaco where he still continues to live and during his growing up years in this little city, he learnt his early trade of motor racing and also went to school and he is very fluent in German, Spanish, English and Italian and can speak a bit of Finnish as well.

Rosberg’s racing career properly took off in 1996 when he began to race go karts when he was just 11 years old and after some success there, he moved up a class to race in the German Formula BMW in 2002. So impressive was Nico Eric Rosberg in his drive at the German Formula BMW that he was asked to race for his father’s team in the Formula Three Euro Series. He did quite well for himself on this circuit and stayed on with the team till the end of the 2004 season. In 2005, Rosberg joined GP2 to race for the ART Grand Prix team and since this series was newly formed at the time, he came to hold the distinction of being its first ever champion.

In the autumn of 2005, it was announced by the Williams Formula One team that Nico Eric Rosberg would be their new driver for the upcoming season. In the mandatory Engineering Aptitude Test that was conducted by the team for all the drivers of the team, Rosberg scored the highest marks so far in the team’s entire history. At the end of the 2009 season, Rosberg announced that he would leave Williams due to its inability to win races and join the Mercedes GP Formula One team. Nico Eric Rosberg is currently in 7th position in the drivers’ standings.

ROSBERG IN A SPIN

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Nico Rosberg finished the Australian Grand Prix in 12th place after an incident with Sergio Perez in the final lap meant he lost his potential 6th place finish.

The new Mercedes car was impressive in qualifying, but seemed to lack some performance in the race itself, and Rosberg in particular found that his tyres were degrading faster than expected, meaning that he lost a lot of grip, and consequently time in the final few laps of the race.

“It was a bit difficult and a bit unexpected,” said Rosberg. “We were just struggling a bit more than we thought, and we need to analyze why. The car didn’t feel good in the long runs, we were not fast and we were struggling. But, yes, of course we had some good straightline speed. He also suffered a pucture during the final lap of the race when Sergio Perez touched his rear tyre along a straight, and had to limp to the finish line 6 places lower than he was expecting.

The German driver was understandably frustrated with his final position, given the decent performance he had put in up to that point, and was surprised to hear that Perez blamed him for the incident. “It was a good fight and everything was looking very good, actually. We would have been sixth, which would have been OK, given the circumstances,” said Rosberg. “And then it’s just a very unnecessary thing that we touched on the straight, so Bruno Senna and then Sergio touched my rear wheel and I got a puncture.”

Although the collected no points in Australia, the Mercedes team remain positive going into the Malaysian Grand Prix, and think that its shape should suit the strengths of their new car. “The circuit has two long straights which should suit us this year, and the conditions will be very demanding as always due to the high heat and humidity,” said Rosberg. “I’m confident that we can improve our performance here, and we will have a successful weekend in front of all our Malaysian supporters.”

ROSBERG BACKS TEAM DECISION

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Nico Rosberg, the Mercedes AMG Petronas driver, says that their team’s decision to hold up the debut of its brand new car W03 is rationalized after the tough performance of their car in the pre-season testing until now.

In the first test session took place at the Jerez circuit in Spain, Mercedes used their last year’s car for the test and unveiled their new car in the 2nd test pre-season test at Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona. After getting able to complete 399 laps in the first 4 days of the last week’s test with Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher, the car looked to be very reliable.

Rosberg’s performance in the text run bettered as he finished back to back 8 laps with the set of soft tyres during the morning practice of the last test and in the afternoon practice, Nico tested on hard tyres with 4 runs of eleven to thirteen laps. More than that, he told that the condition looked better compared to the last year.

Nico told that tyre degradation is still an issue, but it is certainly better than what it used to be; better than 2011 season. But it is mainly reliability. It is obvious how different that is.

Nico, nevertheless, was satisfied with the test at the 1st day of the last test session at Barcelona as he ended 5th in running the fastest lap after turning to be the busiest driver of the day with culmination of 128 laps. Rosberg further added that he thinks that the bringing the car to the second test was the right decision, because they have no reliability issues.