Nico Rosberg

because my dad was not there at the track because we agreed that it was better because I put a lot of more pressure on my shoulders when my dad was there because it's so important for me to, I want him to be proud and I want to impress him.

I want, I need his recognition.

So when he was there, I always got a little bit extra pressure and we kind of,

realized that and so that's why he then stayed back and didn't come so much to races anymore which is great yeah so I it's not never really a strength of mine to know exactly what the right thing to say the right version of the truth you know remember Lando can say a perfect lap or I messed up turn 10 both is the truth but and I was not good at that and Lewis was very very good at that like in meetings saying the right thing so that and that's a it's a battle off the track it's a huge battle

Because it's, do you have the team on your side or not?

And if you say the right thing, then you got the team on your side.

No, it was divided.

Some people were Camp Lewis and some people were my side, which was important and helpful, of course.

But it remains tough when you're up against the people who are Camp Lewis.

one of the things that I felt most difficult about was Paddy because Paddy won Paddy Lowe was our team principal I think it was called at the time he won the championship with Lewis at McLaren so they had an existing very deep relationship I generally felt that Paddy would if in doubt he would be on Lewis's side and that was one of the

For me personally, subjectively, maybe you don't know if it's true or not, but subjectively it felt like one of the most difficult things for me to deal with because Paddy was then most of the time the one discussing, the first person to discuss any incidents with us was him, really.

Before any other senior people like Toto or Niki got involved, we would do a lot of the incidents just with him first.

And that generally was difficult for me.

Niki Lauda said, right, tomorrow morning, Monday, I want both of you at my house in Ibiza.

We are going to make a discussion around this.

He was the mediator.

He did a great job with mediating.

What he did as a mediator was he pushed us each to take ownership, at least a little bit, of what happened.

So to get to a point where you say, okay, yes, that I actually could have done better.

Yes, I understand.