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style="width: 218px"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120623203919/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2011/07/23/2011-german-grand-prix-qualifying-pictures/motorsports-fia-formula-one-world-championship-2011-grand-prix-of-germany-16/" rel="attachment wp-att-49091"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120623203919im_/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/merc_rosb_nurb_2011-13-208x117.jpg" alt="Nico Rosberg, Mercedes, Nurburgring, 2011" title="Nico Rosberg, Mercedes, Nurburgring, 2011" width="208" height="117" class="size-thumbnail wp-image-49091"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Nico Rosberg joined Mercedes in 2010</p></div></p> <p>Born: 27th June 1985<br/>Birthplace: Wiesbaden, Germany<br/>Find all <a title="F1 Fanatics who are fans of Nico Rosberg" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120623203919/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/members/?s=Nico%20Rosberg">F1 Fanatics who are fans<br/>of Nico Rosberg</a></p> <p><strong>Jump to:</strong><br/> <a href="#Williams">Williams</a><br/> <a href="#Mercedes">Mercedes</a><br/> <a href="#careerstats">Career stats</a></div> <p><strong>Nico Rosberg</strong>, the son of Finnish 1982 world champion <a title="Keke Rosberg" href="/web/20120623203919/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-r/keke-rosberg/">Keke Rosberg</a>, was born in Germany and has dual nationality.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Team MBM.com (MBM standing for Mercedes-Benz McLaren) contested the 2000 Formula A championship with the Rosberg and McLaren’s young driver <a href="/web/20120623203919/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-h/lewis-hamilton/">Lewis Hamilton</a>. The pair ended the year at the top of the championship table – Hamilton ahead of Rosberg.</p> <p>However the slightly younger Rosberg made it to F1 first. He stepped up to the German Formula BMW championship in 2002 and dominated the series, winning nine of 17 races and scoring 264 points to Maximillian Gotz’s 183.</p> <h3>Formula Three</h3> <p>Rosberg spent the next two years in the Formula Three Euroseries driving for the team bearing his father’s name. He was eighth in 2003 with a single win and got 2004 off to a perfect start with a pair of wins. But he only won twice more that year and ended the season fourth, one point ahead of Hamilton on his début in the category.</p> <p>The two saw more of each other in the Macau Grand Prix at the end of the year – Rosberg crashing out and taking Hamilton with him.</p> <h3>GP2</h3> <p>The new GP2 category, designed as a stepping stone to Formula 1, was Rosberg’s destination for 2005. He partnered Alexandre Premat at the ART team and enjoyed a season-long battle with <a href="/web/20120623203919/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-k/heikki-kovalainen/">Heikki Kovalainen</a> for the championship.</p> <p>There was considerable speculation over ART’s performance advantage over their rivals in the one-make series. Halfway through the season there was a furore over changes the team had made to their car’s steering column. But even when it was changed the ART pair remained the quickest.</p> <p>Rosberg took the lead of the championship from Kovalainen with three races to go and hung on to win by 15 points with five wins and a total of 12 podium finishes. That led to a race seat for 2006 at <a title="Williams" href="/web/20120623203919/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/f1-teams/williams/">Williams</a> – the team his father had won the championship for 24 years earlier.<a name="Williams"></a></p> <h3>Williams</h3> <div id="attachment_26832" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 480px"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120623203919im_/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/rosb_will_abu_2009-470x313.jpg" alt="Nico Rosberg in his final race for Williams at Abu Dhabi in 2009" title="Nico Rosberg in his final race for Williams at Abu Dhabi in 2009" width="470" height="313" class="size-medium wp-image-26832"/><p class="wp-caption-text">Nico Rosberg in his final race for Williams at Abu Dhabi in 2009</p></div> <p><strong>2006</strong></p> <p>He impressed immediately on his first outing at Bahrain, setting fastest lap. The rest of the season was muted by comparison, Rosberg making a few notable rookie errors, but flashes of speed were there on occasion too.</p> <p><strong>2007</strong></p> <p>His second year went far better, Rosberg consistently out-qualifying <a href="/web/20120623203919/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-w/alexander-wurz/">Alexander Wurz</a> and shining with some excellent races. He ended the year on a high by beating both the BMWs in Interlagos to finish an excellent fourth, giving him a total of 20 points and ninth in the championship.</p> <p>He was pursued by <a title="McLaren" href="/web/20120623203919/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/f1-teams/mclaren/">McLaren</a> over the winter who wanted him to take the spare seat alongside Hamilton for 2008. Afterwards Frank Williams said: “I was a little surprised that he was happy to sign to stay. I feared he would go to McLaren, and I was a bit surprised he didn’t. He could not have gone there this year, he had a fixed contract, but 2009 was going to be the worry. We had an option for 2009 but it was very tough terms, based on the constructors’ championship. It was by no means guaranteed we would achieve it.”</p> <p><strong>2008</strong></p> <p>Rosberg was joined by <a href="/web/20120623203919/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-n/kazuki-nakajima/">Kazuki Nakajima</a> at Williams in 2008. The season got off to a promising start, with Rosberg finishing on the podium at Melbourne.</p> <p>But the Williams renaissance had not arrived yet: most of the time the FW30 was not on the pace of the front runners, though Rosberg capitalised on a safety car period to score another podium in Singapore. Besides that, 2008 yielded little for him. </p> <p><strong>2009</strong></p> <p>Regular points finishes in 2009 attracted attention from the leading teams. However he wasn’t able to repeat his podium-scoring feats of 2008. He was on course for one at Singapore before making a mistake on his way out of the pits and incurring a penalty.</p> <p>The mistake was atypical of what was otherwise an impressive campaign by Rosberg. He finished in the points 11 times – including eight races in a row in the middle of the season.</p> <p>At the end of the year he signed for Mercedes, who had took over 2009 championship winners <a title="Brawn GP" href="/web/20120623203919/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/f1-teams/brawn-gp/">Brawn</a>.<a name="Mercedes"></a></p> <h3>Mercedes</h3> <div id="attachment_50284" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 480px"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120623203919/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/merc_rosb_schu_spaf_2011.jpg"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120623203919im_/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/merc_rosb_schu_spaf_2011-470x313.jpg" alt="Nico Rosberg, Michael Schumacher, Mercedes, Spa-Francorchamps, 2011" title="Nico Rosberg, Michael Schumacher, Mercedes, Spa-Francorchamps, 2011" width="470" height="313" class="size-medium wp-image-50284"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Rosberg had the beating of Schumacher in their first two years as team mates</p></div> <p><strong>2010</strong></p> <p>Rosberg quickly dismissed any questions over his ability to compete with team mate <a title="Michael Schumacher" href="/web/20120623203919/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-s/michael-schumacher/">Michael Schumacher</a>, and consistently out-paced the seven-times champion throughout 2010.</p> <p>But the Mercedes W01 wasn’t the instant race-winner its Brawn predecessor had been – the team went all year without a victory.</p> <p>Rosberg came close, leading in the early stages at Shanghai in the rain. And he put the car on the front row of the grid in a wet qualifying session in Sepang.</p> <p>He briefly looked on course for a strong result in Korea, passing Hamilton early on, but was taken out by <a title="Mark Webber" href="/web/20120623203919/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-w/mark-webber/">Mark Webber</a> after the Red Bull driver hit the wall.</p> <p>Rosberg ended the year just a few points behind <a title="Felipe Massa" href="/web/20120623203919/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-m/felipe-massa/">Felipe Massa</a> in the championship. With better luck – particularly his wheel failures in Hungary and Japan – he might have done even better. As it was, his points tally was almost double Schumacher’s.</p> <p><strong>2011</strong></p> <p>The gap between the pair closed considerably in 2011 but Rosberg retained the upper hand. In particular, he dominated Schumacher in qualifying, starting in front of his team mate at almost every race.</p> <p>He led on more than one occasion, including in China, where he was in contention for victory until the team realised they had their fuel calculations wrong and had to tell Rosberg to back off.</p> <p>By the end of the season the two Mercedes drivers were often disputing the same piece of road and Rosberg had to put a strong move on Schumacher to keep him behind at Abu Dhabi.<a name="careerstats"></a></p> <h3>Career stats</h3> <p><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120623203919js_/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/js/charts.js"></script></p> <div class="spreadsheetinfo"> <span class="coloursurl">http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/charts/stats.csv</span></p> <table class="spreadsheetdata"> <tr> <td></td> <td>2006</td> <td>2007</td> <td>2008</td> <td>2009</td> <td>2010</td> <td>2011</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Championship position</td> <td>17</td> <td>9</td> 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