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The pendulum swings again
- Updated: September 19, 2016
The 2016 title race between the Mercedes team-mates, Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, has ebbed and flowed throughout this season with momentum back in Rosberg’s favour after a commanding win in Singapore.
While Hamilton grappled with his W07 under the lights at the Marina Bay circuit, Rosberg put in a near perfect weekend.
He claimed pole position on Saturday night with a 1:42.584, half a second faster than second placed Daniel Ricciardo. But, more importantly, seven-tenths up on Hamilton.
A night later he took the chequered flag by eight seconds ahead of Hamilton, who was P3 behind Ricciardo, with Toto Wolff revealing that both drivers suffered “right from the get go with brakes overheating.” Rosberg, though, was running in cool air which was a bit of a …
