Rosberg ‘wasn’t expecting’ Hamilton’s tactics

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Despite it dominating the talk in the build-up to the season finale, Nico Rosberg says he “wasn’t expecting” Lewis Hamilton to back him up in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Rosberg clinched his fourth successive second-place finish behind Hamilton in Sunday’s Abu Dhabi finale to win the 2016 Drivers’ Championship.

It was, however, a close call at the end.

Racing 1-2 to the line, Hamilton began to back up Rosberg in the hope that Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen would boot him off the podium thereby handing the Brit a fourth World title.

It wasn’t to be.

Rosberg, who repeatedly asked Mercedes to intervene, withstood the pressure to finish P2 on the day, …

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