Mercedes F1 team brains-trust have opened up on the rivalry between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, one that only ended when the latter unexpectedly quit after winning a tense and drama-packed 2016 world championship. Rosberg played second fiddle to Hamilton in the team, until that year when he found something extra to beat him to the title in one of the most dominant cars of this remarkable Mercedes era. The two boyhood friends became arch-enemies as they battled for the sport's biggest prize, and the differences between the pair was stark according to the Mercedes chief Strategist James Vowles. He explained in the latest Beyond the Grid podcast: 'If you gave Nico a thousand laps, he...
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