Nico Rosberg
The Question: Nico, Melbourne looked like Mercedes had doubled the advantage in terms of relative fastest laps across the weekend over your nearest rivals compared to the start of 2014, but do you expect a smaller gap on this type of circuit?
NR: I don’t think it’s right to say that. Of course qualifying pace was very strong, yes, but more important is the race pace, especially from Kimi we saw an extremely strong stint, so not really fair to say that I would say. I think Ferrari especially have definitely closed the gap and are closer than our nearest rival was last year.
What he might have meant:
NR: Blah, blah competition, ooh Ferrari are quite close, blah, blah everyone pushing hard with development. Heh, heh! If the gap was any larger they’d build a national park around it and fly tourists into it.
