more-inJust after Nico Rosberg won in Japan, Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone made one of his trademark flippant remarks. A Rosberg title win, Ecclestone said, wouldn’t generate the sort of buzz, the partying, promoting Lewis Hamilton would. Reams of newsprint and megabytes of web space were spent discussing whether Rosberg would be a deserving champion. So when Rosberg shadowed his teammate, finishing second in the last four races to take the title, the talk was predictably about how reliability issues had cost Hamilton. Come March 2017, F1 will find itself poorer, deprived of its reigning champion’s grace and style.

Source: The Hindu December 03, 2016 20:04 UTC