Formula 1 champ Nico Rosberg has stunned fans by retiring.
HE WAS on top of the world. It had taken him 10 gruelling years but finally Nico Rosberg had done it. He’d ended the season at number one on the log which meant the Driver’s Championship trophy was his. But then he did the unthinkable: just five days after becoming Formula One’s new champion he stunned fans by retiring.
“I’ve climbed my mountain; I’m on the peak, so this feels right,” the German said in a candid posting on Facebook.
Rosberg (31) admitted he first started toying with the idea of retirement when he won the Japanese Grand Prix in early October.
Even though he ended his final race in Abu Dhabi late last month in second place – losing to his Mercedes-Benz teammate Lewis Hamilton (also 31) – he’d secured enough points to take the title, having won nine of this season’s 21 Grands Prix.
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