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Rosberg studying 2014 to beat Hamilton

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Nico Rosberg says he has been studying last year's Bahrain Grand Prix in order to try and find a way to beat Lewis Hamilton this weekend.

Hamilton has won two of the opening three races of the season, with Sebastian Vettel also victorious in Malaysia. Having failed to finish ahead of his team-mate so far this year, Rosberg says he has been looking at last year's epic battle - which Hamilton eventually won - to try and work out where he will need to improve in Bahrain.

"Do I think [I can beat Hamilton]? Yes," Rosberg said. "I also thought that the last two races and it didn’t go my way and I’m here to try to make it happen.

"I’ve just been looking at the videos here again because I need to improve when we were in battles and last year here there were things I could have done better to win that race and I was just looking at that again."

Rosberg vented his anger at Hamilton after last weekend's race in China as he believed his team-mate had deliberately held him up, and while he says he has moved on from the incident Rosberg still stands by his outburst.

Asked if he has given Hamilton a psychological edge as a result of his comments, Rosberg replied: "Maybe, because I’m standing here and have to answer all these questions, put it that way!

"But other than that, no, I would do it again because I felt the need to state the facts because there was a need to discuss things after that race. Everybody said that. That’s it, I wouldn’t do anything different. And except from being stood here in this room discussing it with you, it’s a long time since I last discussed it.

"It’s a thing of the past and I’m in Bahrain now and I’m here just to attack in a race car again. That’s the best answer I can give, on the race track. I’m looking forward to it and that opportunity."

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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.