“Why do not you ride every race like today?” The question of Gerhard Berger to Nico Rosberg on the podium was a provocation. But the winner of the Grand Prix of Austria was in high spirits and countered loose. “I’ll try to make from today so”
absurd remark of ten times grand prix winner Berger was not. Something he had modified but they can also Rosberg teammate Lewis Hamilton: “Why do you dominator in Monaco and Canada so, and then here does not fit much together?”Because in Austria was Rosberg – up to Hamilton’s only good qualifying lap – actually quite constant the better and faster. Only once Rosberg had a mistake made when he overdid it on the way to the pole position in the final corner and ran off the track: “I had to go risk, but it was just a bit too much,” he said after qualifying contritely.
But at the start on Sunday he made it again well when he came off better from the second position and his rivals behind driving let the entire race on a chance. Because it would not have been necessary to the five-second time penalty which conceded the Briton, as he crossed the white line at the pit lane exit after his tire change.Hamilton responds brusquely
Only very Rosberg was again a little nervous at the end, a discussion with his race engineer about sudden vibrations in the car – but Tony Ross was able to reassure its drivers: “Everything under control, nothing to worry about!” Mercedes-F1-supervisory board chief Niki Lauda paid tribute Rosberg respect: “Nico has the victory deserved, he was fantastic today.”
Also, Hamilton had to admit: “Nico has done a very good job today, I’d probably just in the second stint did not quite have the speed to threaten him.” However, the Briton was noted that hurt him the defeat. When asked about what had happened there at the pit exit, only a fairly rugged came “no idea”, during the race he showed himself in boxing radio surprised by the penalty.
The wayward start he explained with changes in the clutch and torque settings for the launch, which would have taken him by surprise. Where Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff only said: “That would have Lewis but really need to know these changes were indeed something that we decided together.”
Hamilton was pretty served and left the paddock quite early – something that is not known by Rosberg in defeats. He had yet to learn of Michael Schumacher, so that one does not respond, you can hear from his environment.
“There are courses that are a”
But why these differences between a weekend and the other, between two drivers who are engaged in a fight at the highest level? “Because that depends on so many amazing little things,” says ex-GP rider and ORF expert Alexander Wurz. “As you walk in to the weekend, how the car fits from the start, how to get to the track cope There are simply classes that are a better -.. Or not at all”
The track in Spielberg does not necessarily seem to be Hamilton’s favorite terrain – in the previous year the Englishman had here so a few problems, even then the winner was Rosberg. Of course, in such matters, the head plays a role, says Wurz: “All athletes are ultimately only human and eventually the body is virtually just a tool of the head – there to implement what purports the head..” The Austrian is therefore quite common and almost sympathetic, to see “that even in the very best of the world, at this high level, on which is happening this duel, such shape variations are” Wurz said.
Small differences then ensure that a looks almost no chance on the track: “I believe that the difference is not great really, never been as great as it has often been presented – and I would be so far absolutely do not want to specify how this duel starts “
One shows admittedly increasingly clear. The decision between the two Silver Arrows pilots will continue to fall, especially in qualifying and at the start. Overtaking on the track is hardly possible in the absolutely same cars. “Today I had the better race pace, which has of course made it easier to get away a little bit, gave the victory to the made somewhat simpler,” Rosberg said, but admitted: “If I had not come past the start, then I have my doubts that it would be gone later on the track. ”
What Rosberg knows exactly what he needs to focus in the future, so be still ten-point deficit turned into a lead. And so repeats the scene in the Mercedes-box more often, than at least insiders who know how the sympathies are distributed at the Silver, in Spielberg chuckled a bit. For when Niki Lauda Toto Wolf congratulated, it looked like, as if to say: “Okay, congratulations, that today your driver won.”
On Saturday, as Hamilton had secured pole position, it was still the other way around: As you could see from Lauda air “. In my forward again – despite the error”
Formula 1 season in 2015
The teams and drivers
The race calendar
The records
Most world titles
Michael Schumacher (7)
Most Grand Prix wins
Michael Schumacher (91)
Most wins in a season
Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel (both 13)
Most of the start-finish victory
Ayrton Senna (19)
Most podiums
Michael Schumacher (155)
The most podiums in a season Michael
Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel (per 17)
Most pole positions
Michael Schumacher (68)
The most pole positions in a season
Sebastian Vettel (15)
The fastest laps
Michael Schumacher (77)
The most Grand Prix starts
Rubens Barrichello (323)
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