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In winning the 2016 world championship, Nico Rosberg joins his father Keke, who claimed the 1982 title at Williams, in the books. Nico thus becomes the second son to follow in his father's footsteps after Damon Hill, son of two-time world champion Graham, prevailed in the 1996 season.

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