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Rosberg set to become a father

Nico Rosberg is set to become a father after announcing his wife Vivian Sibold is pregnant.

Ahead of the start of the second day of testing at the Circuit de Catalunya, Rosberg took to Twitter to post a picture of himself and his wife alongside a message revealing that their first child is due in August. The couple were married in July last year.

Rosberg will become one of a growing number of fathers on the current F1 grid, with Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen, Romain Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado all becoming dads over the last few years, while Felipe Massa also has a young son.

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.