Mercedes GP driver Nico Rosberg says he is happy with British Grand Prix results – Formula 1 news
Mercedes GP driver Nico Rosberg has said that he is quite happy with his British Grand Prix results at the Silverstone racetrack.
Rosberg also mentioned that he had a very great time in Silverstone on both the soft and hard tyres.
The team driver was 60.6 seconds off the pace of the race winner Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso and finished his race at the sixth place for Mercedes.
The German discussed his Silverstone race weekend and said, “First of all because in qualifying we had the potential to be in the top five, and secondly we had a really good strategy in the race. My start was not good, so being able to eventually finish
in sixth place is a nice result for us.”
Rosberg did not have a very impressive start to the British Grand Prix as he secured a ninth place for Sunday’s race. Despite his disappointing qualifying round, the Petronas-sponsored team driver made a lot of struggles in the closing laps of the race and
finally ended up at the sixth place ahead of the Sauber driver Sergio Perez.
The 26-year-old driver went on to mention, “And hopefully it's the start of an upward trend, before our next home race in Germany, so I'm looking forward to confirming our performance at the Nurburgring. In the next few days, we will analyse the whole weekend
with our new developments on the car, and will work hard on improving it even further.”
His teammate Michael Schumacher finished his race at the ninth place for the team. He had a contact with Sauber’s Kamui Kobayashi in the early laps of the Silverstone race. Due to that, he was handed a stop/go penalty. After the race, the seven-time world
champion admitted that he could have finished at the sixth place but due to the accident, he could not do that.
After a positive British Grand Prix, Rosberg is looking forward to successful race weekends in the remainder of the 2011 Formula 1 season.
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