I doubt many modern stars would have survived early career crashesnot so sure
Is it a bad look - is it click bait - what is the context of who asked what question? DId Jackie approach the media with a press release?Nico Rosberg was no slouch in that Mercedes car and though Lewis did have a few failures during that 2016 season, it is evident that Rosberg did an exceptional job with what he was given.
Jackie publicly stating that he (Rosberg) essentially was not good, simply to highlight Lewis' loss smacks of envy.
It is a bad look and one that is unnecessary.
Stat | Lewis Hamilton | Delta | Nico Rosberg |
---|---|---|---|
Points in season (in same GP) | 380 | -5 | 385 |
Times better position (in same GP) | 11 | +1 | 10 |
Wins | 10 | +1 | 9 |
Podiums | 17 | +1 | 16 |
Times better in quali (in same GP) - based on starting grids | 12 | +3 | 9 |
Pole positions | 12 | +4 | 8 |
You would do it for money. Look at Jakie Stewart. He had a learning disablity Acording to his book he can not read or write, his signed a sinature as a circle. He would not be employable in a regular profesion. Yet he has survived in a dangeus eara. The man is smart in skills and talent but not book smart. A lot of what we know or understand as humans can not be taught in a classroom or in a book. You have to phisicaly do it and try it. If it fails work trouble shooting and fix it.I doubt many modern stars would have survived early career crashes
in cars built before e.g. 1980.
Some would never have attempted F1, back then.
Drvers like Barrichello, Webber, Perez sometimes can match or beat great team mates - but struggle to do so consistently. Rosberg is in that camp for me, but he really stepped up in 2016 - it was a very very good season for him - and for almost the whole season was almost at Hamilton's level. And he was willing to go to Win-At-All-Cost-BS in Spain and Austria.Nico may not have the raw talent of Lewis, but he is extremely smart, disciplined, determined, and calculating. He was ruthless and deliberately crashed out his teammate at least once in 2016. Yes, they were both in a Silver Arrows, but if you recall during their time as teammates, Nico was always--annoyingly but shrewdly--asking his engineer what HAM was doing in a particular corner, etc. Nico was always learning, plotting, playing mind games.