Nico Rosberg has admitted that circumstance played as big a part as anything in denying him a spot on the front row of the grid for the Australian Grand Prix.The German had, along with Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton, been the favourite for pole position at the opening round of the 2014 F1 world championship, but found himself pushed back to a spot on row two as Red Bull – with Daniel Ricciardo rather than four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel – split the two Silver Arrows in a wet qualifying session at Albert Park in Melbourne.Asked whether he and the team had got the timing of his second run wrong, Rosberg conceded that, while it may have been a little off, a combination of the...
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