The motor world misses Nico Rosberg competing on the track. The German ended his career as world champion, something that very few can say, although his goodbye to this day hid a lot of uncertainty.
To get out of doubt, the German has granted an interview to a German medium where he has not bitten his tongue and has been opened as never before.
In context, the German shared a team with lewis hamilton for 3 seasons, and unbelievably he was able to win the championship from him in 2016. Rosberg was one of the few with Fernando Alonso and max verstappen capable of finding the weak point of the seven-time champion.
Currently, the expilot is a commentator in Formula 1, businessman and shareholder. As if that were not enough, he is an ambassador for ‘Continental’ tires, but his character remains intact, he has not bitten his tongue and has opened up like never before to explain without ‘hesitating’ in ‘Men’s Health’ what everyone wanted know.
“I was afraid… I’m not a daredevil”
“Sometimes, Looking at the circuits, I think it’s good that I no longer compete. For example in baku the 360km/h between walls,” he said.
Contrary to what many people think, pilots are no strangers to danger: “Yes, there were times when I was afraid, because unlike other pilots, I’m not a daredevil,” he confessed.
Like other sports figures such as Zinedine Zidane, the expilot decided that he would retire at the most appropriate moment. “I was afraid that I wouldn’t be fast enough if I continued.. And that at some point there would be no team left that wanted me,” he specified.
As an example of caution is the phrase “it’s better to stop too soon than too late, I wanted to be able to decide for myself“.
I gave up my entire identity.”
The German was a genius at the wheel, capable of making the turn of the Michael Schumacher in 2010, a headache for everyone who was his teammate.
“Running was what I had always done, what I was. In some way, I gave up all my identity by giving up running,” he explains.
Now in his career as a businessman and shareholder, he hopes to set the bar as high as in ‘El Gran Circo’. If he is just as good at it, let the financial market tremble.
