Nico Rosberg’s choice to report his retirement from Formula 1 only five days in the wake of securing his first world title is a noteworthy stun – however maybe it ought not be.
The German place everything into this season, as he clarified in his announcement on Friday. The weight of those last few races was plain to see in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, in the way it peeled off him by degrees in the hours after the race.
His considerations turned rapidly to what it would take to attempt to beat Lewis Hamilton again in 2017. He unmistakably felt that at 31 years old, with a youthful little girl, he was not set up to make those penances any more.
All things considered, it is a tasteful move from a tasteful man.
Rosberg was not the most lighting up of interviewees this season – his aggregate concentrate on the title incorporated a refusal to consider any inquiries concerning the title circumstance, Hamilton or whatever else past his “one-race-at once” mantra.
But by one means or another he did it in a way that consolidated agreeability, quietude, regard for the media, cleverness and mankind.
In this manner, the regard in which he was held – officially high – went up.
Rosberg was dependably a fine fantastic prix driver. His issue – in the event that you can call it that – was he was working in a period in which there were various incredible ones.
Some would contend the case for Sebastian Vettel’s place in that atmosphere – he has four titles and 42 wins added to this repertoire – however it has turned out to be clear as of late that he works getting it done just in certain conditions.
Also, as of late, there has been the development of Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen.
In light of this, and the way Hamilton, Alonso, Ricciardo and Verstappen drove in 2016, Rosberg would have been at the highest point of not very many impartial onlookers’ arrangements of the best drivers of the year, regardless of obviously driving superior to anything he ever had some time recently.
