Max Verstappen certainly tried his best to ruffle the championship leader's feathers.īut, as on Saturday, Nico came through and he now has the first serious chance of his career to take the title by winning at Interlagos.

Rosberg's final lap in Q3, when he rescued second from a provisional fourth behind the Red Bulls, was certainly his moment of the weekend as without it he would have surely dropped more than seven points to Hamilton on Sunday. That really is saying something when Rosberg has finished in the top two on Saturdays at every race for the last 13 months. Last year's Mexican GP winner was never on his team-mate's pace this time to the point where Hamilton admitted he was even 'surprised' to see his team-mate join him on the front row.

But should his struggles in Lewis Hamilton's wake in Mexico set alarm bells ringing for Brazil and Abu Dhabi? In one sense, it's two-second places down, two more to go, for Nico Rosberg as he gets tantalisingly close to realising his childhood dream of becoming world champion.

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