Formula One World Championship, Rd 11, Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice Day, Budapest, Hungary, Friday 29 July 2011. He was the first Finnish driver to compete regularly in the series. Formula One World Championship, Rd 3, Malaysian Grand Prix, Race, Sepang, Malaysia, Sunday 4 April 2010. © Sutton Motorsport ImagesNico Rosberg (GER) Williams on the podium. Formula One World Championship, Rd6, Monaco Grand Prix, Race Day, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, Sunday 26 May 2013. In his role as a roving ambassador for Mercedes he made guest appearances and gave motivational speeches around the world. © Sutton Motorsport ImagesLewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes AMG F1, Toto Wolff (AUT) Mercedes AMG F1 Director of Motorsport and Nico Rosberg (GER) Mercedes AMG F1. If Rosberg Jnr’s retirement was the conclusion to an unbelievably draining three years, Rosberg Snr stepped quietly from the limelight four years after becoming the somewhat unexpected winner of the world title at the end of a fraught and tense 1982 season. For his title defense in Despite good power from the Honda engines, Williams and Rosberg struggled in In November 1984 following the F1 season, Rosberg, along with fellow F1 drivers Keke Rosberg's fifth and final Grand Prix victory came at the Just as the Honda engine began producing regular results, Rosberg decided to leave Williams at the end of 1985 and signed for At the time, Rosberg's move to McLaren for the 1986 season had seemed a master stroke as they were the championship team of the previous two seasons, having done so (especially in 1984) in dominating fashion.Keke Rosberg dominated the final race of his Formula One career, the Rosberg, who had made up his mind in mid-1984 that he would only race for two more years (but did not announce it publicly until Germany 1986), had no regrets about leaving Williams and joining McLaren at a time when the Honda engine was starting to come on strong, while the Team Rosberg ran for another year in the DTM, until the series collapsed, and has been present in Rosberg later spent a long time managing his countrymen In his karting years, Rosberg had a white helmet with a blue stripe, then, in F1, Sid Mosca (who designed helmets for Brazilian drivers including Ayrton Senna, Rubens Barrichello and Emerson Fittipaldi) painted Rosberg's helmet white with a blue circle on the top and the stripe was divided in a big blue rectangle covering the visor area with some blue rectangles behind (similar to Didier Pironi's helmet design).
Since his mother Sina was German Nico was entitled to dual citizenship, though he could also be classified as Monegasque because the family resided in the Principality. Nico Rosberg, the son of Finnish 1982 world champion Keke Rosberg, was born in Germany and has dual nationality.. His karting career was backed by his father and in 2000 Rosberg Snr used his Mercedes connections to arrange backing for Nico to race with the support of top karting boss Dino Chiesa. © Sutton Motorsport ImagesKeke Rosberg (FIN) with his son, Nico Rosberg (GER) ART. While the more naturally talented Hamilton tended to beat the hard-trying Rosberg, their rivalry remained friendly. Formula One World Championship, Rd 15, Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore, Sunday 28 September 2008. © Sutton Motorsport ImagesNico Rosberg (GER) Williams FW28. Keke and Sina did not discourage this career choice, perhaps believing he would grow out of it.
Formula One World Championship, Rd3, Bahrain Grand Prix, Race, Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain, Sunday 6 April 2014. In the fifth event, in Spain, the two title rivals collided on the first lap and went no further. © Sutton Motorsport ImagesNico Rosberg (GER) Mercedes GP celebrates his third position in parc ferme. © FIA Editorial Copyright FreeRace winner Nico Rosberg (GER) Mercedes AMG F1 celebrates in parc ferme at Formula One World Championship, Rd19, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Race, Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Sunday 29 November 2015. Heineken has released a new commercial featuring Nico Rosberg. Formula One World Championship, Rd16, Chinese Grand Prix, Race Day, Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai, China, Sunday 7 October 2007. © Sutton ImagesNew World Champion Nico Rosberg (GER) Mercedes AMG F1 celebrates by performing donuts on the track at Formula One World Championship, Rd21, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Race, Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Sunday 27 November 2016. © Sutton Motorsport ImagesWith their 2015 Mercedes cars by far the class of the field, the team’s policy of giving them equal opportunity placed maximum pressure on the drivers, whose once friendly rivalry deteriorated into an all-out psychological struggle for supremacy. © Sutton Motorsport ImagesNico Rosberg (GER) Mercedes GP MGP W01 makes a pit stop and loses his rear wheel.

In the Formula BMW ADAC series the 17-year-old Rosberg (now racing with a German passport) won the championship and earned himself a F1 test drive with Williams, the team with which Keke won the driving title. They engaged in youthful hijinks, tossing a mattress out the window of their hotel room, staging impromptu foot races down the corridors, gorging themselves in pizza speed-eating contests.Nico Rosberg (GER) Williams FW28. Australian Grand Prix, Rd 1, Race, Albert Park, Melbourne, Australia, Sunday 16 March 2008. Nico Rosberg is on the verge of winning his first F1 championship The German star leads Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton by 12 points But Rosberg will not have his father …

Formula One World Championship, Rd3, Chinese Grand Prix, Shanghai, China, Sunday 15 April 2012. Growing up in the environment where his dad had won the 1983 race through Monaco’s storied streets gave little Nico big ideas.