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I think as ever it was a mix of things. Both these things are true
1) Rosberg had everything going his way in 2016, it was the perfect storm
2) Rosberg absolutely deserved his championship
If you look back to 2016 Hamilton was destabilised by losing his engineers and mechanics to Rosberg giving him a slow start, he had a couple of retirements at critical points, most notably Sepang having clawed his way back into the championship fight at least twice having had bad reliability, Rosberg was just flat out quicker on the Saturday giving him an advantage going into a Sunday.
Rosberg has openly said several times that he had to put his entire life on hold to beat Hamilton that year and he couldn’t do it again, there are some very candid and enlightening interviews on YouTube.
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