02-06-2016, 19:34
La pesadilla de Rosberg....
Cita en Autosport del 2 de Junio,
Points leader Rosberg Q&A
endures ‘painful’ race
to seventh – 93s down
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP LEADER
Nico Rosberg suffered from “a complete
lack of confidence” during his lacklustre
drive to seventh in the Monaco Grand Prix.
Rosberg cited brake issues as a potential
cause for his struggles, while Mercedes
team boss Toto Wolff suggested a failure
to generate sufficient tyre temperature
was also to blame.
Mercedes asked Rosberg to let
team-mate Lewis Hamilton past in the
rain-hit early laps, as Rosberg lost time
to Daniel Ricciardo’s leading Red Bull.
Asked whether it was painful to let
Hamilton past, Rosberg replied: “It was
more painful with the feeling I had in
the car. There was a complete lack of
confidence in those conditions, and
around Monaco that is not good
“I had to stay well away from the limit
because otherwise I would have been in
the wall. At that point I realised, with that
feeling, I wouldn’t be able to fight to win.
“We are trying to understand it [the
lack of pace]. There are already a few
things that have come up.
“What we do know is there was a brake
issue with the temperatures, quite a large
one. It caused problems, but it’s too early
to say whether that was all of it. It’s
going to take a bit of analysing.”
Rosberg dropped to sixth after his
second pitstop. He couldn’t get back past
Fernando Alonso’s McLaren-Honda for
fifth. With rain falling again on the last lap,
Rosberg lost sixth to Nico Hulkenberg’s
Force India at the finish line.
“I was on the ultra-soft and he was on
the soft; he had loads of rubber left and
I had no rubber left,” said Rosberg.
“He had more temperature, and with
the rain mine were stone cold.”
Un saludo
Cita en Autosport del 2 de Junio,
Points leader Rosberg Q&A
endures ‘painful’ race
to seventh – 93s down
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP LEADER
Nico Rosberg suffered from “a complete
lack of confidence” during his lacklustre
drive to seventh in the Monaco Grand Prix.
Rosberg cited brake issues as a potential
cause for his struggles, while Mercedes
team boss Toto Wolff suggested a failure
to generate sufficient tyre temperature
was also to blame.
Mercedes asked Rosberg to let
team-mate Lewis Hamilton past in the
rain-hit early laps, as Rosberg lost time
to Daniel Ricciardo’s leading Red Bull.
Asked whether it was painful to let
Hamilton past, Rosberg replied: “It was
more painful with the feeling I had in
the car. There was a complete lack of
confidence in those conditions, and
around Monaco that is not good
“I had to stay well away from the limit
because otherwise I would have been in
the wall. At that point I realised, with that
feeling, I wouldn’t be able to fight to win.
“We are trying to understand it [the
lack of pace]. There are already a few
things that have come up.
“What we do know is there was a brake
issue with the temperatures, quite a large
one. It caused problems, but it’s too early
to say whether that was all of it. It’s
going to take a bit of analysing.”
Rosberg dropped to sixth after his
second pitstop. He couldn’t get back past
Fernando Alonso’s McLaren-Honda for
fifth. With rain falling again on the last lap,
Rosberg lost sixth to Nico Hulkenberg’s
Force India at the finish line.
“I was on the ultra-soft and he was on
the soft; he had loads of rubber left and
I had no rubber left,” said Rosberg.
“He had more temperature, and with
the rain mine were stone cold.”
Un saludo