More Hamilton-Verstappen connections are inevitable as the intergenerational battle ensues, Rosberg says

Nico Rosberg doesn’t have an unknown bike fight with Lewis Hamilton, and the former Mercedes rider and 2016 world champion says the Hamiltons Silverstone match with Max Verstappen isn’t the last time the two riders will be in touch this season as a “generation”. The title battle is played.

Rosberg and Hamilton collided several times as a Mercedes teammate, most sadly in 2016, when they collided with Verstappen in the first round of the Spanish Grand Prix to take advantage of their first F1 victory, in their first race with Red Bull. .

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And asked to take on the Hamilton-Verstappen match at German driver Silverstone said Sky Sports F1A: Well, it’s not 100% obvious. It was a tight fight at all angles after the start, and then it was just a little over the edge and then they touched.

That is why there are also different opinions, and I want to call it a racing event as well. Of course, you can put a little more guilt on one or the other, but ultimately its a generational battle; both don’t even leave a centimeter from the other and we already see it in previous races.

Rosberg and Hamilton in their 2016 Spanish Grand Prix

I mean, it’s not the first time they’ve had a connection to them already Imola, Turn 1 and we were going to see more, I’m sure. And that’s this battle of generations, you know? The best guy of the last generation or even currently and the best guy of the next generation. It really reminds me [me] also Senna-Schumacher, Schumacher-Alonso, Alonso Vettel maybe?

But Rosberg said he didn’t think Hamilton had been more aggressive by going to Copse in Silverstone because he was tracking Verstappen in the championship match. Rather, he said there has been aggression between the two from the start, arguing that it will continue throughout the season.

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Yes, his [Hamiltons] the title was slipping because Max only had a faster car, it was faster, unstoppable. I don’t think he thought too much about it. It’s just: I want to beat Silverstone, this is my race, and both just keep aggressing, both don’t give up.

And this is going to play for the rest of the season, he added.

The battle between the two competitors will continue this weekend Hungarian Grand Prix, Hamilton is now just eight points behind Verstappen.

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