Nico Rosberg believed that Lewis Hamilton would still win the Monaco Grand Prix even after his late pitstop dropped him to third. Before the restart the German assumed that Hamilton's fresher tyres would enable him to get by both Sebastian Vettel and himself over the closing laps of the race. “At that time I still thought Lewis would win,” said Rosberg. “Because coming out with fresh supersofts, [while] we were on stone cold, 40-lap old or whatever hard tyres, which was going to be a massive mission not to hit the wall with after the re-start, because it felt treacherous out there. “So I still felt he was going to come through, and it was going to be a big battle I thought, and I...
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