🇩🇪 Nico Rosberg

Nico Rosberg is a generational-level driver who raced single-seaters in open competition from 2003 to 2016, finishing his career as a retired professional with an FIA Platinum grade. He competed primarily in Formula 1 for Mercedes across eleven seasons, winning 23 Grands Prix and the 2016 world championship. Before that, he won the 2005 GP2 Series title and raced in Formula 3 competition in Europe and at Macau.[1]

Rosberg took 206 starts in Formula 1 between 2006 and 2016, amassing 57 podiums alongside his 23 wins. He won the world championship in 2016. In the junior categories that preceded his Formula 1 career, he recorded four wins and ten podiums across 29 Formula 3 Euro Series starts, took victory at Macau once in a single outing, and won five times in the 2005 GP2 Series en route to the title that year with ART Grand Prix. His 258 career starts across all indexed series yielded 32 wins and 80 podiums.[2]

Rosberg's Formula 1 tenure placed him among the strongest drivers of his generation. He raced as a regular opponent against two-time world champion Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button, an established professional and dual champion in Formula 1 and Super GT, and held his own against both. He finished ahead of Lewis Hamilton, a seven-time Formula 1 world champion, on 52 occasions across their seasons together at Mercedes, and ahead of Max Verstappen, a four-time world champion, 24 times in their careers.