Nico has his head screw on
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He is right in saying:-
"I want to play a major part in taking Williams back to the good times again, just as Alonso did with Renault and Michael Schumacher did at Ferrari before that.
"To turn a team around to that level is a greater achievement than just winning the world title with the best car." Top Bloke and BLOODY RIGHT!!
Rosberg hopes for long stint at Williams http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/64121
By Jonathan Noble Monday, November 26th 2007, 14:49 GMT
Nico Rosberg has dropped a firm hint that he could be staying at Williams for the long term.
The German is committed to the Grove-based team for next season, despite having been linked with the vacant seat at McLaren, and could be one of the key figures in the driver market at the end of the 2008.
But despite welcoming the interest surrounding him, Rosberg has said that he could see himself sticking it out at Williams for many years yet - because he wants the challenge of helping them back to the winners' circle.
"I'm not going anywhere, at least for another season, and hopefully for longer than that," said Rosberg in an interview with The Mail on Sunday.
He added: "It's very nice to be linked to a move to McLaren and it would certainly be interesting to team up with Lewis again after we were teammates a few years back.
"But I'm very happy where I am. We made significant progress last year and I'm hoping we continue to improve even more next season.
"I want to play a major part in taking Williams back to the good times again, just as Alonso did with Renault and Michael Schumacher did at Ferrari before that.
"To turn a team around to that level is a greater achievement than just winning the world title with the best car."
Rosberg believes that Formula One could be about to witness a young-generation takeover - with himself, Lewis Hamilton and Robert Kubica poised to take the limelight.
"I'm really excited because I believe F1 will come to be dominated by my generation very soon," he said.
"I was the first of us to arrive in the sport, and Lewis is now ahead of the rest of us, but I believe there will be a great rivalry in the next few years involving Lewis, myself, Robert and Heikki, with maybe Sebastian Vettel, too, joining us because he did really well when he started racing midway through last season.
"The sport needs these sort of rivalries and I hope people will come to talk of us one day like they used to talk about the great rivalries involving Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet."
"I want to play a major part in taking Williams back to the good times again, just as Alonso did with Renault and Michael Schumacher did at Ferrari before that.
"To turn a team around to that level is a greater achievement than just winning the world title with the best car." Top Bloke and BLOODY RIGHT!!
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Rosberg hopes for long stint at Williams http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/64121
By Jonathan Noble Monday, November 26th 2007, 14:49 GMT
Nico Rosberg has dropped a firm hint that he could be staying at Williams for the long term.
The German is committed to the Grove-based team for next season, despite having been linked with the vacant seat at McLaren, and could be one of the key figures in the driver market at the end of the 2008.
But despite welcoming the interest surrounding him, Rosberg has said that he could see himself sticking it out at Williams for many years yet - because he wants the challenge of helping them back to the winners' circle.
"I'm not going anywhere, at least for another season, and hopefully for longer than that," said Rosberg in an interview with The Mail on Sunday.
He added: "It's very nice to be linked to a move to McLaren and it would certainly be interesting to team up with Lewis again after we were teammates a few years back.
"But I'm very happy where I am. We made significant progress last year and I'm hoping we continue to improve even more next season.
"I want to play a major part in taking Williams back to the good times again, just as Alonso did with Renault and Michael Schumacher did at Ferrari before that.
"To turn a team around to that level is a greater achievement than just winning the world title with the best car."
Rosberg believes that Formula One could be about to witness a young-generation takeover - with himself, Lewis Hamilton and Robert Kubica poised to take the limelight.
"I'm really excited because I believe F1 will come to be dominated by my generation very soon," he said.
"I was the first of us to arrive in the sport, and Lewis is now ahead of the rest of us, but I believe there will be a great rivalry in the next few years involving Lewis, myself, Robert and Heikki, with maybe Sebastian Vettel, too, joining us because he did really well when he started racing midway through last season.
"The sport needs these sort of rivalries and I hope people will come to talk of us one day like they used to talk about the great rivalries involving Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet."
Nico has been improving by leaps and bounds. I'm sure he will do a great job at Williams, even if not as good as Schumacher. Wouldn't be surprised if he starts nipping at McLaren and Ferrari's heels next season.
I think if he was in a BMW/McLaren/Ferrari this season, he would have finished the championship in the top 6.
I think if he was in a BMW/McLaren/Ferrari this season, he would have finished the championship in the top 6.
Edited by Jungles on Wednesday 28th November 00:04
pablo said:
or " i have not done enough to justify a seat in a ferrari or a mclaren so will sit it out here for a year or two and see what happens"....
Noble sentiment that it is, nico has proved nothing so far, other than being quite quick in an average car. Id love to see williams back up top again, although reading zanardis autobiography did make me view them in a slightly unfavourable light. It led me to believe that head is a major factor in the teams decline, due to his stuborness and unwillingness to bend to the input of bmw. People may see this as a quality however in the medium term at least, it has contributed to them being cuffed by their former engine partners and compared to jordan at the start of the season. Then again they did manage to attract the attention of a certain mr button when they still had their manufacturer backing. Whether that says more about their judgement than mr buttons and his staying at honda, I shall leave to the philosophers (they'll be along in a minute 
)[quote=EDLT]No offence to Nico, but I don't think he is good enough to sort out Williams like Schumacher did at Ferrari.[/quote
shumacher and todt and byrne and brawn
give me a race mad team the finest brains in the sport unlimited finances and a good driver and I will turn any team in to world beeters
schumacher schumacher schumacher
good he was, but he was responsible for a portion, not all of their success
shumacher and todt and byrne and brawn
give me a race mad team the finest brains in the sport unlimited finances and a good driver and I will turn any team in to world beeters
schumacher schumacher schumacher
good he was, but he was responsible for a portion, not all of their success
spectatorsam said:
EDLT said:
No offence to Nico, but I don't think he is good enough to sort out Williams like Schumacher did at Ferrari.
shumacher and todt and byrne and brawngive me a race mad team the finest brains in the sport unlimited finances and a good driver and I will turn any team in to world beeters
schumacher schumacher schumacher
good he was, but he was responsible for a portion, not all of their success
Edited by Munter on Wednesday 28th November 10:42
For the last 11 years the written word has been that Ross Brawn and Rory Byrne followed Schumacher to Ferrari. I infer from that they wouldn't have gone there if Schumacher was going to be THE driver for the team.
Ferrari were regarded as mildly comical bunch up to that point, their spectacular break downs were always a high point of any GP, especially if fire was involved. It normally was.
F1 is a team sport, the press and tabloid trash may forget that, but that doesn't change the principle. Unfortunately this is only completely apparent when a good driver gets the best car without significantly inputting into its development.
Ferrari were regarded as mildly comical bunch up to that point, their spectacular break downs were always a high point of any GP, especially if fire was involved. It normally was.
F1 is a team sport, the press and tabloid trash may forget that, but that doesn't change the principle. Unfortunately this is only completely apparent when a good driver gets the best car without significantly inputting into its development.
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