Nico Rosberg feels a decision to persevere with a three-stop strategy in the Malaysian Grand Prix potentially cost him a shot at fighting for victory. The German finished third behind race winner Sebastian Vettel – who only stopped twice – and Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton, who also stopped three times in a race characterised by exceedingly hot conditions. Indeed, though Rosberg says he can understand why a three-stop strategy was maintained as per what was agreed before the race, he feels it ultimately prevented him from mounting a challenge for the win. “If the race was tomorrow we would do exactly the same things all over again, because we had planned to do those and we would...
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