2016 Method 1 champion Nico Rosberg revealed that he and his former team-mate Lewis Hamilton have been compelled to select up the invoice following a crash between them throughout the Spanish Grand Prix in the identical 12 months he gained the championship title.
Rosberg and Hamilton have been each combating for the championship within the 2016 season and as a manner of stopping the drivers from crashing into each other, Mercedes chief Toto Wolff wrote it into their contracts that they’d foot the invoice if their rivalry resulted in a crash.
The 2016 Spanish Grand Prix noticed the team-mates crash on the primary lap. Rosberg overtook Hamilton on the first nook, main the seven-time champion to attempt to take the place again. The German-Finnish driver went to defend the transfer, which compelled his team-mate onto the grass and right into a spin.
Each vehicles turned tangled and have been compelled to retire from the race.
“I had a contract that I needed to signal which stated that if ever we crash as team-mates, we break up the invoice 50-50, us drivers,” Rosberg instructed Sky Sports activities F1 when requested about how his 2016 season in comparison with that of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri’s 2025.
“We shared the Barcelona invoice,” he stated, including that his a part of the invoice got here to “€360,000”, that means the complete invoice was a staggering €720,000.
Nico Rosberg, SKY Sport
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He added: “That was painful.”
McLaren’s Norris and Piastri have been each combating for the championship this 12 months. The Woking outfit allowed each drivers to race freely with the one provision that they might not crash into each other, which they managed to stay to except a few situations.
Norris went on to clinch the title, and a late surge from Pink Bull’s Max Verstappen resulted in a third-place end for Piastri because the Dutchman rose to second within the standings.
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