'It's not because I am well educated, but it's for the brand Mercedes. “What I did not like, and I have to say, and I will tell this on Monday, is that when you are up there and you don't say hello to your teammate, which Nico has always done - that is not good,” Lauda said after the race. Mercedes chairman Niki Lauda had his usual forthright view on matters. They were no longer on speaking terms.Īsked if the issues with Rosberg could be resolved, Hamilton said: “I don't have an answer for you.” Rosberg was more chipper about trying to fix things, saying the pair “always sit down and discuss it and move on, and that is what we will do.” In the post-race ceremonies, there was no handshake or congratulations between the pair. Photo by: Charles Coates / Motorsport Imagesīut the talking point remained how relations between Hamilton and Rosberg had hit a new low. Race winner Nico Rosberg, Mercedes F1, second place Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W05 I know that I had a really good banker in there, so I tried to push that little bit more and went over the edge. 'It was close but I managed to go into the escape road. “I tried to make it, but turned out as I was going to hit the tyre wall,” Rosberg said. Rosberg backed his car out of the slip road before returning to parc ferme to celebrate pole position. “Ahhh, very good of him,” replied Hamilton. “Yellow yellow, Turn 5, yellow yellow, Turn 5,” reported Hamilton’s engineer, Pete Bonnington. But they succeeded in bringing out yellow flags, forcing all of the cars to slow - including Hamilton. In all, there were nine attempts to change the direction of the car, all futile in keeping Rosberg on his pole lap. A final attempt was made to make the corner, again sawing left then right, before finally he abandoned the lap, swinging the car left and into the slip road. He increased the lock to the right a third time as he tried to make the corner, only to find his front-right wheel was locking up. First right, then correcting left, then right and left again. As he lined up to brake for the corner, Rosberg began to saw at his steering wheel.

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