Feb.16 (GMM) Nico Rosberg has defended his former teammate and title nemesis Lewis Hamilton after deciding to scrap his Mercedes contract after this yr to change to Ferrari.
Hamilton, 39, justified the transfer on the premise that it had all the time been a “childhood dream” to race in crimson – a declare scoffed at by one other F1 nemesis, Fernando Alonso.
“It was not his childhood dream 12 months in the past, no?” Alonso smiled. “Or two months in the past, I suppose, it was a special dream.”
However German Rosberg, who instantly stop Mercedes and F1 altogether after beating Hamilton to the 2026 title, defended Hamilton’s reasoning.
“It shocked me,” he instructed Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. “However in the event you take a look at the massive image, there are two legendary groups that everybody desires to drive for – Ferrari and Mercedes.
“So I can perceive that he’s fulfilling a private dream with this,” the 38-year-old added.
Some would possibly regard the suddenly-vacant 2025 Mercedes seat as the right alternative for Rosberg himself to return to System 1. A supply near Sebastian Vettel instructed Sky Deutschland this week that even Vettel is eyeing the seat very eagerly.
Rosberg, although, categorically guidelines out his personal return.
“It’s over,” he mentioned. “I’m not planning a comeback.
“I’d have to organize intensively for a complete yr simply to coach the synapses within the mind once more,” Rosberg added.
Rosberg was already at Mercedes when the nice Michael Schumacher determined to return to F1 in 2010 – and failed so as to add a single race win to his hefty tally of 91 grand prix victories in three full seasons.
It is perhaps argued that Schumacher most likely regretted the comeback resolution.
“I believe if we had the chance to ask him about it, he wouldn’t remorse the comeback,” Rosberg insists. “Racing once more, the duels, that pushed him on enormously. He appeared noticeably rejuvenated from that point.”
