Nico Rosberg Too Weak During Battle with Lewis Hamilton in Bahrain Grand Prix

The Bahrain Grand Prix witnessed Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, the Mercedes teammates and overwhelming world title favourites, go head-to-head for the first time in the 2014 Formula One season. We were robbed of a close battle at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, when an engine failure ended Hamilton’s race after two troublesome laps, leaving Rosberg to claim a straightforward, dominant victory. Hamilton enjoyed a similarly convincing victory a fortnight later in Malaysia, proving his critics—who claimed that he was unsuited to the demands of F1’s new era—completely and utterly wrong on a weekend when he was the class of the field by a distance. It had been something of a cold war between the Mercedes driv...

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