Nico Rosberg ends the year on a high note with a hat trick over Lewis Hamilton. The driver of the No. 6 Mercedes AMG Petronas car scored the victory in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at the Yas Marina Circuit.
The driver of the No. 6 Mercedes AMG Petronas car won his fifth straight pole with a time of 71.282 and a speed of 138.198 mph. He said afterwards that qualifying was "an area that I had to work on, so I have been working on it through the season. But I don't have a direct explanation, a precise thing I've done different."
A champion could be crowned this week in America. This week, Formula 1 returns to Circuit of the Americas in Elroy, Texas - on the outskirts of Austin - for the United States Grand Prix. This'll be the 45th edition of the race, 38th as a round of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship and fourth at COTA.
The driver of the No. 44 Mercedes AMG Petronas car capitalized on the mechanical failure of teammate and pole sitter Nico Rosberg to score his 42nd career win in Formula 1.
This is the 18th career pole for the driver of the No. 6 Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team and third of the 2015 season. He'll be joined on the front row by teammate, points leader and defending race winner Lewis Hamilton.
Since Haas F1 was given permission to join Formula 1 in April starting in 2015 (Later delayed to 2016), there has been constant speculation and rumor that Haas F1 is going to hire a current NASCAR driver, specifically one Danica Patrick, to drive one of their two cars in Formula 1.
As an American racing fan, be it NASCAR, IndyCar, F1, or just about anything else, you know racing really isn't covered well at all by mainstream sports media.
At Daytona, I sat and watched Cup qualifying for a couple hours. I watched each car get up to speed, run their two laps and then pull to the apron while the next car exited pit road. It's a procedure repeated 43 times every weekend and it is, for lack of a better term, boring.
