Nico Rosberg won a grand prix in Belgium for the first time, although his Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton did a good job to contain the damage, safter starting from the back row of the grid, the German’s triumph was well timed to keep his title hopes alive by reducing the points gap to nine in the 2016 F1 championship race.
Rosberg said after his 20th Formula 1 victory, “I am so happy to win here in Spa at this legendary track. It wasn’t an easy weekend for us. We had to work a lot on the setup – but in the race it was perfect. I really had good control of everything.”
“The stints on the medium tyres were really good and I felt really comfortable at the start on the softs too. Our car was really great today, so thank you to the team for all their hard work in getting it spot on.”
“It’s great for the team that Lewis was able to recover to finish in third place, so overall a great result for us. It was a great atmosphere here with all the Dutch people coming to see Max.”
“They shouldn’t be sad because he is still young and I’m sure he will have a lot more races here with much better results. Now, it’s only a few days until Monza.”
“The penalties for Lewis made things easier for me today – but he will be back in the battle for the win again next weekend, which will be exciting.”
Mercedes F1 chief Toto Wolff said, “Nico had it all under control today from the moment the lights went out.”
“It was a perfect drive, with great pace on each of the tyres he used and he just steadily built the gap to Ricciardo behind him when he needed to. He didn’t put a foot wrong and delivered everything possible,” added Wolff.
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