Mercedes Inter team Battle - Hamilton Vs Rosberg

Rosberg is yet another driver to show that it is easy to underestimate a driver if he gets stuck in midfield cars for many years even though does a competent job there. It obviously poses a great interest, how does the battle unfold during the rest of the time of their partnership together. Obviously Hamilton hasn't fully settled in the team either yet. So as always, we are going to see fluctuations in one's or other's favour. But what is clear, is that Rosberg can race anyone when he hits a purple patch in form. Which he has done for now.

The current battle reminds me a bit of the early 2007 Massa-Räikkönen dynamics. Kimi was new into the team, so Felipe had the upper hand even though results-wise he had a bad start into the season (6th in Oz, 5th in Mal).

Montreal is one of Hamilton's strongest circuits. He has either won or retired there. And when he retired, he was a victory challenger as well.

Nobody has ever beaten Lewis so consistently yet. What it shows is, that Rosberg was much underrated so far and that Schumacher, despite his age, wasn't as slow as the car made him look since his comeback.

Well done to Nico and its great to be getting an upper hand now on the car and Lewis, but I find it hard to rate his win or any of the top 4s races as good today.

No One in the top 4 looked like pushing hard to doing much else than driving to Deltas. Because of the state F1 is in these last seasons I find it one of the least impressive Monaco wins.

Sorry but thats how I feel.

He wasnt challenged, had he been I am sure he could still have won and shown his class. This though was just lifeless.

Quite pleased that Nico won. Hopefully he can string a few more good weekends together like that, and make the championship fight interesting.

Hamilton struggling with brakes since he joined Merc. A bit scary given that he's not that far off the pace from Rosberg.

This reminds of 2007 when Kimi and Alonso admitted they were struggling to adapt to the Bridgestone control tyres and as with Hamilton we're talking a hundredths to a few tenths of a second. Alonso and Kimi could be devastating when the car was right.

How Nico Rosberg has put the brakes on Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes in 2013 - so far | Features & Experts | Sky Sports Formula 1

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Hamilton struggling with brakes since he joined Merc. A bit scary given that he's not that far off the pace from Rosberg.

This reminds of 2007 when Kimi and Alonso admitted they were struggling to adapt to the Bridgestone control tyres and as with Hamilton we're talking a hundredths to a few tenths of a second. Alonso and Kimi could be devastating when the car was right.

How Nico Rosberg has put the brakes on Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes in 2013 - so far | Features & Experts | Sky Sports Formula 1

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Yeah it's been clear he hasn't been too comfortable in that Mercedes. The body language of the Mercedes car doesn't echo the usual Lewis Hamilton to me. He'll bounce back but it might take him some time.

Well Hamilton clearly was the quicker of the two Mercedes drivers this weekend and it seemed that was the case throughout the whole weekend as well. I was surprised that he out qualified Rosberg as he still isn't 100% comfortable in the car. Still though, fantastic driver over all.

4-3 to Hamilton in qualifying ratio :)

He done great.

people moaning about Mercedes, but car is better than last years Poles, front rows, wins and podiums show that.

Perhaps the extra testing has helped him. ;)

Oops... sorry I forgot they were just testing the tyres.

Incredible lap by Hammy! 5-3 in qualifying. Still leading the way overall for Mercedes!