Mercedes junior team for 2025: The drivers looking to emulate George Russell\u2019s road to F1 glory<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cUnfortunately, there\u2019s a whole load of lobbying you can do as a driver, which would benefit you,\u201d Rosberg explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was one of Lewis\u2019 greatest strengths when I was fighting him at Mercedes.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was really good at building strong relationships with all the leadership. Suddenly, I would find out \u2018Lewis last night went for dinner in Stuttgart with Dieter Zetsche\u2019, who was the CEO of Daimler.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was like a dagger in the heart just to hear that, because who knows what they were talking about? He was very good at doing that, and he will need to be using those skills now at Ferrari, because it never hurts to get more and more support from the team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rosberg brings up the story because, over a decade on, Hamilton has once again joined a team alongside an established \u2018team leader\u2019.<\/p>\n
Charles Leclerc first joined Ferrari in 2019, during which time he partnered former four-time World Champion Sebastian Vettel for two years before Carlos Sainz Jr. joined the team in 2021.<\/p>\n
Leclerc has made it clear that he sees his Formula 1 future intimately tied to Ferrari, but the arrival of Hamilton has likely brought with it a change in team dynamics \u2014 both due to Hamilton\u2019s record-breaking success as well as the massive sum Ferrari spent to secure his services.<\/p>\n
Though Hamilton\u2019s signing came with a lot of hype, the F1 2025 season has so far failed to pan out for the British driver, lagging behind team-mate Leclerc, seemingly finding the SF-25 a uniquely difficult challenge.<\/p>\n
The seven-time champion revealed that he has prepared \u2018documents\u2019 to share with Ferrari details thoughts on the current machine and his suggestions for possible tweaks or areas of exploration in the future.<\/p>\n
Though he has clarified that these are just suggestions and not orders, Rosberg\u2019s pointed mention of Hamilton\u2019s successful Mercedes lobbying suggests that there could be more here than meets the eye.<\/p>\n
Read next:\u00a0The winners and losers from the F1 2025 season \u2014 so far<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nico Rosberg has opened up on what it was like to compete alongside Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,818,823,945,44,849,85],"class_list":["post-50143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-home-page","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-mercedes","tag-news","tag-nico-rosberg","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50143","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=50143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}