LONDON: History recommends Nico Rosberg is a strong wager for the Formula One big showdown after his prevailing begin to the season, however the German would be savvy to overlook the analysts and be extremely careful about Mercedes fellow team member Lewis Hamilton.
Rosberg's triumph in Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix made him the seventh driver since 1950 to begin a crusade with three straight triumphs.
Including the three he won at the last part of 2015, Rosberg likewise turned into the fourth ever to pile on six Formula One big showdown race wins in succession.
Each one of the individuals who beforehand accomplished such winning streaks went ahead to win the title that season.
The admonition is that 2016 has a record 21 races and Mercedes gives its drivers level with status — and none of the drivers who appreciated such hot streaks in the past had a buddy like Hamilton.
The Briton is a triple best on the planet, who has beaten Rosberg toward the end of season standings consistently since he touched base at Mercedes in 2013.
His 43 profession fabulous prix triumphs, contrasted with Rosberg's 17, puts him third on the record-breaking rundown of champs behind Michael Schumacher and Alain Prost.
Rosberg is the best driver never to have won a title, having now overwhelmed Britain's Stirling Moss who was general runner-up four times in the 1950s.
At the point when Italian Alberto Ascari (1953) and Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio (1954, 1957) won the initial three races of the season, there were eight or nine rounds.
Indeed, even seven-time title holder Schumacher, Rosberg's comrade, who won three races in succession toward the begin of the 1994, 2000 and 2004 seasons, just had a greatest of 18 races to fight with and only 16 in 1994. In that sense, Rosberg's season has scarcely begun and he knows it, regardless of the fact that he is 36 focuses in front of Hamilton.
"Six wins, that doesn't mean me since three were a year ago. So I simply consider the three wins this year," said the German after another predominant evening in China.
"Be that as it may, it's initial days. Three races is only a little modest bunch and we have 18 to go. It's the longest season in F1 history and my colleague is cherished Lewis, and he's going to push like damnation — like dependably."
"It's been difficult to beat him in earlier years and it's not going to be any diverse this year as he's the benchmark," he included.
Both have just to look to 2014 to perceive how the circumstance can change — regardless of the fact that that season had the oddity of twofold focuses for the last race.
Rosberg, whose Finnish father Keke won the 1982 title with one win all year, drove by 29 focuses after the Belgian Grand Prix in August 2014, however Hamilton then reeled off five wins in succession on his way to the title.
The Briton had 10 wins a year ago and 11 in 2014 contrasted with Rosberg's six and five individually.
"I have to win each of the 18 races," Hamilton said after China, yet the champion has dependably been exceptional at driving than doing the arithmetic.
With 25 focuses for a win and 18 for second place, there is everything to play for.
If Rosberg somehow happened to resign at the following race in Russia, a fantastic prix that just Hamilton has ever won since its presentation in 2014, the crevice between them could abruptly get to be 11 focuses.
"For me, it's a marathon not a sprint," said Hamilton. "At this moment despite everything I have the best auto; we are still the best group regardless we have 18 races. I don't consider this to be his title," he included.
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