Is Hamilton third? In the event that Rosberg was frustrated, he shrouded it well. He clowned with columnists amid his news meeting and got over recommendations that he may have been pondering making a beeline for this present weekend’s Italian Grand Prix in a superior position. It was a weekend when Hamilton may sensibly have anticipated that would leave away with his title lead wiped out. So to lose just 10 focuses, with his lead decreased to nine, was a “super-reward”, as he put it.
The German, still in his champagne-splashed racing overalls 90 minutes or so after the race, was grinning.
Rosberg took the agreeable win that appeared to be unavoidable once it had turned out to be clear team-mate Lewis Hamilton would be dropped down the network as a result of a progression of engine punishments this weekend.
Be that as it may, few individuals – in particular Hamilton himself – anticipated that the title holder would recoup to third place on what was one of the more troublesome weekends for Mercedes this year.
A mix of hot temperatures and delicate tires keep running at what numerous drivers, including Hamilton, concurred were “ludicrously” high weights guaranteed that this race was harder for Mercedes than anybody suspected it would be.
So for the Briton to return through the field to third from 21st on the network was a noteworthy accomplishment. “That’s not what I’m focusing on,” Rosberg said. “I came here to the Belgian Grand Prix and wanted to win it. The opposition was unusually close this weekend – not eventually in the race but leading up to that. I’m just happy it worked out. Perfect weekend for me.”
He was “extremely astounded” by Hamilton’s outcome, he said, yet adulated what he said more likely than not been an “awesome employment”. Also, he shamelessly raised the dubious fight between Kimi Raikkonen and Max Verstappen, cunningly making his perspectives clear without really saying them through and through. “I always said that if I feel I can be in a car that is fighting for wins, definitely I will stay,” Button said. “I think any racing driver would. If I am not, and I feel I am not, there is nothing else I want to achieve. I will go and play darts or something else instead.”
All things considered, it was a lavishly enthralling race weekend to begin a riotous peak to the season, with eight races in 12 weeks.
It united accounts on the title fight, remarkably Verstappen’s unsettling impact on his more experienced opponents, stewing discontent with F1’s Pirelli tires and what seems, by all accounts, to be a clock ticking down on Jenson Button’s future.
