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Originally Posted by 2 litre Touring Car Star
Just for the Rosberg taking advantage of Hamilton's "unreliability". Most of you should've remember that Rosberg got punted off in Malaysia after that Vettel/Verstappen skirmish. Rosberg had to make his way up the field. If it wasn't for the "luck" Hamilton had that day, Rosberg would otherwise have won.
Because Rosberg is like the Chelsea/Mourinho of racing drivers, he allowed that season to be closer that it was.
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There were plenty of times that season, such as Spa, where Lewis too had to start at the back due to unreliability reasons yet dragged himself back to a finish he shouldn't have had due to his performace.
On balance, Lewis had the worse reliability that season, culminating in Malaysia where the title ended up put out of Lewis' reach by the engine failure.
But even as a Lewis fan, there's no point to decrying Nico's achievements
If you try to pain Nico as an average driver, then why didn't Lewis muller him like he is Bottas atm?
No, Nico was an underrated talent, with the only real black mark with his ruthlessness (putting his engine into an mode the drivers and team agreed they wouldn't do in the race for reliability reasons to challenge lewis was the start of a snowball effect that culminated in Nico's retirement it seems. But Monaco Qualifying was perhaps his worst moment, when he wasn't clumsily clunking into Lewis due to his misunderstanding of wheel to wheel racing anyway)
Nico sacrificed everything to be world champion. His friendship with Lewis was the first thing he found easy to cast aside, it seems
Ever since he left the sport, he's seemed like he's tried to rekindle that friendship, but it seems that's a door that will remain closed, at least while Lewis is still racing
As good as a driver he was though, I could do without him trying to become the face of the sport with some weak-level punditry, Boring Vlogs, sponsorship campaigns and an objectionably terrible podcast recorded on his Iphone so the sound is terrible.
Good driver, but was his career just his method of raising his profile for his other business concerns? The more he keeps showing up, the more that seems to be the case.