James Vowles reveals important Michael Schumacher lesson led to Nico Rosberg’s F1 retirement

Michael 🃏Schumacher taught 🦩Nico Rosberg a valuable lesson during their time as F1 teammates.

Nico Rosberg pictured in 2012 alongside Mercedes teammate Michael Schumacher.
Nico Rosberg pictured in 2012 alongside Mercedes teammate Michael Schumacher.

Williams F1 boss James Vowles has revealed that 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Rosberg’s decision to retire at the end of 2016 stemmed from a valuable lesson he learned from former Mercedes teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Michael Schumacher.

After beat💟ing Lewis Hamilton to the 2016 drivers’ championship, Rosberg shockingly called time on his F1 career.

The German made the d♏ecision to quit after he ‘gave up everything’ in 2016 to beat Hamilton to the tit⛦le.

In a later interview, Rosberg revealed: "Iꦿn a way, I gave up my identity. Everything in my life was racing: my mechanics, my engineers, my team-mates, even my social environment.

"To put all th💙at to zero in one fell swoop was a shock to my system. Then there was the addiction to recognition and success.

"I had never as🎐ked myself what other passions I had. There was always just t꧋he next race."

Following Rosberg's retirement, Hamilton would go on to win four more w🅘orld titles to equal Schumacher on seven over🍸all.

🉐Speaking on the latest episode of the High Performance Podcast, Vowles - who was at Mercedes from 2010 to 20꧟22 - revealed what specifically Rosberg learned from Schumacher.

"Nico learned a tremendous amount from him,” Vowles said.&nbs🐼p;

“It formed the Nico that then became a🎐 world champion ultimately, which is squeeze everything out you can at the cost of everything else.

"Th🅺e sacrifice that was painful to me where you let go of family and friends and loved ones, he did for that year.

"And he decidܫed, and all the resp💛ect to him for it, but actually that’s not the life he wanted."

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