Mercedes are struggling this year to decipher the code of their radical W13, but to understand their latest creation, maybe they should look no further than a Rosberg. Acknowledged by Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, as well as Toto Wolff, the Mercedes W13 is a temperamental chassis. One day good, the next bad, and it seems no amount of set-up searching or CFD modelling can produce a diagnosis. What it needs is the right “trick cyclist” to get it on the couch and identify the root cause of its neurosis. Rosberg would have been the man for the job. And just to be clear, I mean Nico Rosberg, not Keke, the Marlboro smoking, hard-drinking, free-lance “bonker” who part timed as a...
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