Nico Rosberg
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So I was behind him and he was driving a fantastic race, as he does so often.
And so I was behind him, stuck.
And the other guys were catching up from behind.
And Lewis was disappearing.
And then my engineer says to me on the radio, this is Tony Ross,
Nico, you now have to pass Verstappen.
Otherwise, you risk losing the world championship.
It was like 20 years in the making.
My childhood dream.
And it was like, it was there for me to take it, you know.
And now these totally unexpected extreme circumstances of me dropping behind Verstappen, which normally was never going to happen because we're so much faster than them.
Yeah.
than being stuck there.
And at the time, he was still completely crazy.
He's changed a lot now.
He's become much more measured, much more driving for the championship.
At the time, for Stappen, he had nothing to lose.
He was, I don't know, 18 or 19 years old.
And one knew that it was a 50-50% chance.
If you try and battle with him, it's 50% crash, you're out.