SINGAPORE NICO AT HIS BEST
Nico Rosberg powered to a well calculated , albeit , very narrow victory in the Singapore Grand Prix but it was enough to impress his Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff who hailed his drive on the night as the best he has seen from the German .
Speaking after watching a tense final dozen laps at the Marina Bay Circuit , Wolff said of Rosberg , “ I ’ ve known him since 2013 and that is the best Nico Rosberg I have seen at any weekend since then . We have the tendency to say Lewis has awesome pace and this is what we have seen with Nico this weekend – he was just blindingly fast .”
“ He was 0.6 [ of a second ] quicker than P2 in qualifying in Singapore , which is not something we are used to seeing at all here . He drove the race in the same way , he had a great start , controlled the pace .”
Wolff also admitted to Sky , “ We nearly peed our pants at the end . It was so close and how it should be in Formula 1 . Four really quick cars , different strategies and I must really take my hat off to Red Bull as well , they pulled off a great strategy at the end .”
“ On the contrary Lewis didn ’ t have a good weekend – he was lacking laps to find out about the right setup , so he couldn ’ t really choose the direction and that caused him to go backwards from then on .”