{"id":3701,"date":"2018-03-20T12:38:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T16:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2018-04-02T15:43:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T19:43:43","slug":"formula1-nico-rosberg-points-out-lewis-hamiltons-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/03\/20\/formula1-nico-rosberg-points-out-lewis-hamiltons-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1 &#8211; Nico Rosberg points out Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nico Rosberg<\/strong>\u00a0stated that he believes <strong>Lewis Hamilton<\/strong> has some weaknesses which his rivals have to try and exploit. The 2016 <strong>Formula 1<\/strong> champion pointed out that Hamilton&#8217;s &#8220;inconsistency&#8221; is his main weakness.<\/p>\n<h1>Nico Rosberg points out Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s weakness<\/h1>\n<p>Rosberg, who was Hamilton&#8217;s teammate\/rival at Mercedes between 2013 and 2016, said that <strong>Ferrari<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/02\/18\/nico-rosberg-picks-lewis-hamilton-to-beat-sebastian-vettel-in-the-championship-by-one-point-but-what-are-the-odds\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Sebastian Vettel<\/strong> <\/a>and Hamilton&#8217;s colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/03\/18\/44-vs-77-valtteri-bottas-expects-to-take-his-best-shot-at-lewis-hamilton-in-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Valtteri Bottas<\/strong> <\/a>need to take advantage of these moments that the Stevenage-born driver has. <em>&#8220;If you\u2019re able to pounce in those periods and really make the most of it, you can keep him down for a while longer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You have to make the most of it absolutely and Sebastian (Vettel) did that pretty well last year actually. That\u2019s what Valtteri (Bottas) needs to try, he needs to make the most of that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h1><em>&#8220;Lewis is\u00a0unbelievably fast&#8221;<\/em><\/h1>\n<p>Also, Rosberg recognized that when the Briton is at his best, it is impossible to beat him. <em>&#8220;When <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/02\/18\/nico-rosberg-picks-lewis-hamilton-to-beat-sebastian-vettel-in-the-championship-by-one-point-but-what-are-the-odds\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Lewis<\/strong><\/a> has his good weekends he is almost unbeatable because he is just unbelievably fast.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 2018 F1 season kicks off the coming weekend with the <strong>Australian Grand Prix<\/strong> in <strong>Melbourne <\/strong>(March 23-25 2018).<\/p>\n<p><strong>MAIN PHOTO:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a id=\"iMYh5DhbQXR8pw7ueO4lGw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.in\/detail\/626128180\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'iMYh5DhbQXR8pw7ueO4lGw',sig:'kaoCRjxkihjMv6H1D-wuPwJ1cfnwFDXaebGJXyUXXeA=',w:'594px',h:'400px',items:'626128180',caption: true ,tld:'in',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Race winner Lewis Hamilton of Great Britain and Mercedes GP shakes hands with second place finisher and F1 World Drivers Champion Nico Rosberg of Germany and Mercedes GP on the podium during the Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit on November 27, 2016 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Clive Mason\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Rosberg\u00a0stated that he believes Lewis Hamilton has some weaknesses which his rivals have to try and exploit. The 2016 Formula 1 champion pointed out that Hamilton&#8217;s &#8220;inconsistency&#8221; is his main weakness. Nico Rosberg points out Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s weakness Rosberg, who was Hamilton&#8217;s teammate\/rival at Mercedes between 2013 and 2016, said that Ferrari&#8216;s Sebastian Vettel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2449,"featured_media":3708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"193","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[424,68,76,121,26],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","tag-2018-formula-one-season","tag-f1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-mercedes","tag-nico-rosberg"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}