>Niko Rosberg

Monza is absolutely one of the top race tracks in the world. Not only for the speed and the challenge but also for the passion and enthusiasm of the Italian fans who really love their racing. There is always a special feeling about the Monza weekend and I love racing there. We made a good recovery from a difficult start to the weekend in Spa and it was nice to come away with some points. Monza is a completely different type of track but we will hope for an equally good weekend there.

Nico Rosberg im Interview nach erfolgreichem Triathlon in Kitzbühel. Sie finden den kompletten Clip in der Mediathek des ZDF auf Zdf.de!

Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg both insisted they were perfectly happy with their Belgian Grand Prix performances after starting from well down the grid, and both downplayed the minor contact between the two of them on the track. Read more at Patronisef1.com

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Nico Rosberg über seinen sechsten Platz und die Duelle mit Stallgefährte Michael Schumacher auf Motorsport-total.com

My rain set-up finally worked out towards the end there and I made up two places on the re-start. Sixth place today is ok and it really is the most that we could have hoped for from this weekend. Michael and I had a couple of battles out there which was fun. We respect each other and you just have to be careful and it all worked out ok. It was a good recovery today but we really need to continue to try and improve our car to have a stronger end to the season.

It’s not been an ideal weekend so far and knowing that we have the five place gearbox penalty, we decided to go for more of a rain set-up as it would be our only chance in the race tomorrow. The car was generally lacking grip today but the main problem was that I had traffic on my fastest lap in Q2 with a driver staying in front of me on his in-lap for the last half of the lap. We’ll have to see what tomorrow brings but if it rains, then we are on the right set-up.

“Podestplätze werden sicher immer schwieriger, denn aus eigener Kraft sind wir dafür nicht gut genug”, gesteht Rosberg. Aber: “Das Team arbeitet weiter und bringt noch Verbesserungen – viele davon schon hinsichtlich der nächsten Saison. Möglichkeiten gibt es immer, die erste schon hier mit dem Wetter. Das habe ich noch nicht aufgegeben. Und dann gibt es Rennen wie Singapur, wo alles passieren kann. Es ist definitiv noch möglich.” Lesen Sie weiter auf Motorsport-total.com

It’s been a difficult day for us as we have been trying to get our revised parts for the car to work. The weather conditions have complicated our programme and whilst we’ve tried a lot of different things, it’s been tough to get any consistent feedback. I’ve suffered with understeer all day and really struggled with the balance on the wet tyres. The inters were better and it’s difficult to say for the slicks really. I was quite far off with my car balance with the dry tyres so that didn’t help. So a tricky start to the weekend for us and we need to sit down overnight and try to solve the problems.