Nico Rosberg has formally invited Sebastian Vettel to join the Mercedes debrief in Malaysia after the Ferrari driver mocked him after the Australian Grand Prix.

Vettel took exception to one of Rosberg’s answers in the post-race press conference, with the Mercedes driver having said he wants to see Ferrari close the gap. Vettel then suggested that he should be allowed to come to a Mercedes engineering meeting ahead of the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Rosberg has now taken to Twitter to announce he has cleared the idea with team bosses Toto Wolff and Paddy Lowe, and extends an “official invitation” to the four-time world champion to join Mercedes at Sepang.

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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.

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