Categories: F1 News, Reports and Race ResultsMercedes

Rosberg finally receives 2014 pole trophy

Nico Rosberg has finally received his pole trophy from 2014, just three weeks from the first race of the 2016 season.

The FIA introduced a new trophy two years ago which would recognise the driver who secured the most pole positions in a season. With Mercedes dominating the first season under the new V6 power unit regulations, Rosberg got the better of team-mate Lewis Hamilton by taking pole on 11 occasions from the 19 races.

However, the German driver had yet to receive the new trophy, joking that Hamilton would be waiting a long time for it when his team-mate won the award last season.

With the 2016 season set to get underway in Melbourne in less than three weeks, Rosberg took to Twitter on Monday to confirm he has now been presented with the trophy.

finally received the 2014 pole position trophy from Bernie. #betterlatethannever

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.