article_snippet.sent: Of course, not long after these words reach your breakfast tables in the shires, Nico Rosberg may buck up and take pole, but it would be something of a surprise, not least to Mercedes F1 boss Niki Lauda, if Nico Rosberg did.
article_snippet.sent: It is not anything I can talk to Nico Rosberg about.
article_snippet.sent: At least Nico Rosberg is not the watching neutral’s only hope of a contest breaking out this season, after Ferrari shocked everyone by winning a fortnight ago.
article_snippet.sent: Nobody was ever more pleased to see Nico Rosberg wagging Nico Rosberg finger in celebration than fans whose own digits were poised over the television remotes’ off-switches, so jaundiced were they by the prospect of Mercedes’ seemingly endless hegemony.
article_snippet.sent: As Bernie Ecclestone joked, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff could have the legend,
article_snippet.sent: ‘The man who killed Formula One’, engraved on Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff tombstone.
article_snippet.sent: Even if Ferrari winning makes Bernie happy, I will still be upset,’ Ferrari said.
article_snippet.sent: The priority for me and Toto and Paddy (Lowe, the technical director) is to try to win every bloody race.
article_snippet.sent: I don’t care about the politics or what is good for Sebastian Vettel  .
article_snippet.sent: My worry for us is that Ferrari won so early in the season.
article_snippet.sent: Most observers thought Ferrari’s win in Malaysia might be a one-off created by the absurdly hot weather.
article_snippet.sent: That was a big, honest and uplifting claim three races into a season that was being written off as a processional yawn.