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Hamilton questions Rosberg will to win
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WITH Mercedes looking certain to run away with the Formula One constructors’ championship, the promising battle between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg should provide an intriguing backdrop for the season.
Rosberg is only three points behind Hamilton, the championship leader, who has won the past four races. The two go back a long way, to their karting days. But with so little separating them in the title race, their friendship looks set to be tested.
Hamilton has even questioned Rosberg’s desire to win.
“I come from a not-great place in Stevenage and lived on a couch in my dad’s apartment, and Nico grew up in Monaco with jets and hotels and boats and all these kind of things,” Hamilton said. “So the hunger is different ... if I were to come here believing that Nico is hungrier than me then I might as well go home.”
Those comments give the first indication that Hamilton, the Formula One champion in 2008, is applying pressure on Rosberg, who is far more inexperienced with four career wins compared to Hamilton’s 26.
Hamilton dismissed any notion of diplomacy when he was asked his ideal result at the Monaco Grand Prix tomorrow, replying: “(Me) finishing first, Fernando (Alonso) finishing second and Sebastian (Vettel) finishing third. That would be it for me. The dream result for the team would be the Mercedes cars finishing 1-2.”
Four-time defending champion Vettel is already 55 points behind Hamilton in fourth place, and two-time champion Alonso is in third, 51 behind Hamilton. They have one third-place finish each so far and don’t look like closing the gap, so it looks like being Hamilton vs Rosberg for the rest of the campaign.
Even though Hamilton has won the past four races after Rosberg clinched the season-opener in Australia, he wants to dominate Rosberg more. “Even if we are a dominating team, I don’t beat my teammate by 40 seconds,” the 29-year-old said. “Take the last race, it was six-tenths (of a second) between us.”
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