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Rosberg title – ability or reliability?
- Updated: December 2, 2016
All hail Nico Rosberg, the deserving 2016 F1 World Champion, or is that the luckiest driver to win a World Championship?
The debate rages, and is likely to continue through to next year’s championship-opener, as to whether Germany’s new World Champ won on ability or reliability.
The fact is that the title is decided on points and Rosberg was five ahead of Lewis Hamilton after the final lap of the 21-race championship. The Brit, though, was undoubtedly robbed of several good results throughout the season.
Clutch issues in Australia and Bahrain followed by engine troubles in China and Russia set a precedent for a campaign in which Hamilton declared that “someone” didn’t want him to win.
It also meant that come the defining moment of the season, their first lap Spanish Grand Prix collision, Rosberg walked away with a 43-point advantage over Hamilton.
In the past …