{"id":405208,"date":"2026-01-11T01:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/405208\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T01:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:02:09","slug":"if-youre-behind-a-driver-over-40-in-monaco-that-says-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/405208\/","title":{"rendered":"‘If you\u2019re behind a driver over 40 in Monaco, that says it all’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ralf Schumacher<\/a> couldn\u2019t resist taking a subtle dig at Nico Rosberg<\/a> in response to some comments the latter had made about his brother Michael.\u201cIf you\u2019re behind a driver over 40 in Monaco, that says it all.\u201d- Ralf SchumacherRosberg and Schumacher were team-mates at Mercedes from 2010 to 2012, handpicked to spearhead the Silver Arrows\u2019 return to Formula 1<\/a>.That partnership, however, did not coincide with a particularly successful period for the team. During those three seasons, Rosberg was the only one of the two to secure a race victory, doing so in 2012 \u2014 the final year of the seven-time world champion\u2019s Formula 1<\/a> career before his definitive retirement.<\/p>\n

On a separate occasion, Rosberg spoke about Schumacher\u2019s mastery of mind games, recalling a Monaco qualifying anecdote in which \u2014 according to him \u2014 Michael timed his exit from the bathroom to perfection, stepping out just moments before heading to the car in order to deliberately unsettle his team-mate.<\/p>\n

\"Ralf<\/p>\n

Photo: Race Pictures<\/p>\n

When quizzed specifically about Rosberg\u2019s anecdote in an interview with SPORT1, Ralf Schumacher<\/a> replied: \u201cEveryone ticks differently. The fact that Nico says this so openly today does him credit. It\u2019s not how I see things, but then again, I never became a world champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe won a title against a seven-time champion \u2014 and that\u2019s no small feat. Still, you can see what makes him tick, even now. For him, it\u2019s always about mind games. He\u2019s still telling stories about my brother \u2014 about alleged psychological tricks in toilets or car parks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know Michael. At that point, he was already at a completely different stage of his career. In the end, Nico simply should have put his foot down. If you\u2019re behind a driver over 40 in Monaco, that says it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rosberg reveals the ‘big’ Hamilton ‘problem’ he’s still haunted by<\/p>\n

Once Schumacher exited the scene, Rosberg found himself up against another exceptional driver, sparking a fierce rivalry that ran from 2013 to 2016 and ultimately ended with the German claiming the world title before stepping away from the sport.<\/p>\n

The pair had been close friends since their karting days, but their relationship gradually deteriorated as the intensity of their on-track battle \u2014 and the stakes of a Formula 1<\/a> championship \u2014 took their toll.In a recent interview, Rosberg revisited his relationship with Hamilton.<\/a>Want to stay up-to-date with what happens in the F1<\/a> paddock? Then GPblog’s F1 Paddock Update video is the perfect way to do it. Subscribe to GPblog’s YouTube channel and turn on notifications to never miss the latest episodes. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ralf Schumacher couldn\u2019t resist taking a subtle dig at Nico Rosberg in response to some comments the latter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,35119,813,816,189983,844,849,30966,85],"class_list":["post-405208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-mercedes-amg-f1-team","tag-michael-schumacher","tag-nico-rosberg","tag-ralf-schumacher","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}