🇩🇪 Nico Rosberg

Nico Rosberg is an elite professional rated 7,900, a Platinum-graded driver who spent eleven seasons in Formula 1 with Mercedes from 2006 to 2016. He won the 2016 Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship and took 23 Grand Prix victories across 206 starts in the series. Before that, he came through the junior ranks in single-seater racing, winning the 2005 GP2 Series with ART Grand Prix.[1]

Rosberg's career was built on consistency and head-to-head competition against peers at the sport's highest level. In Formula 1 he finished on the podium in 57 of his 206 races. His record against his most regular teammates shows him closely matched with established professionals: he beat Jenson Button repeatedly, and was closely matched with Fernando Alonso over their time racing together. Over his full Formula 1 tenure he finished ahead of Lewis Hamilton 52 times; Hamilton is a generational driver and seven-time Formula 1 champion whose career spans 391 Grand Prix starts and wins in Formula 3 Euro Series and GP2 Series as well. Rosberg also raced against Max Verstappen, a four-time Formula 1 champion, finishing ahead of him 24 times across their meetings.[2]

His junior career in Formula 3 Euro Series and GP2 showed the trajectory that would carry him to Formula 1. In GP2 he took five wins from 22 rounds to claim the championship, and he compiled ten podiums across 29 starts in Formula 3 Euro Series, a mixed field of amateurs and professionals. His eleven-year tenure with Mercedes made him one of the team's most successful drivers; across the team's full racing record in this database it has won 139 races and fielded 13 drivers, with George Russell among its strongest recent entrants. Rosberg retired from racing in 2016 immediately after winning his world championship.