Nico Rosberg

Nico Rosberg is hanging up his helmet for good right after achieving ultimate glory in Formula 1.

Lewis Hamilton did everything in his power he could to be champion with a win in Abu Dhabi, but it wasn't meant to be as teammate Nico Rosberg finished right behind him to claim the bigger prize.

Daniel Ricciardo was content to settle for second or third, but a late race reliability issue for one of the Mercedes drivers allowed him to take the lead and score the victory.

While the stat books will show it was a clinic by Nico Rosberg, it was anything but in the closing laps of Formula 1's night race.

Nico Rosberg out-lasted the chaos of the first 10 laps to put on a clinic and score the victory at Spa-Francorchamps.

There was no stopping Nico Rosberg this weekend as he took the pole, led the most laps, posted the fastest single lap and took the victory in the first race in the Republic of Azerbaijan.

What had been a "perfect season" for Mercedes turned into a disaster on the opening lap of today's race in Spain.

Thanks to a red flag period just before halfway in the race, the driver of the No. 6 Mercedes AMG Petronas car used tire strategy to beat out teammate Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel to score his 15th career victory in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship.

Nico Rosberg took the victory in a dominant performance at Interlagos. The driver of the No. 6 Mercedes AMG Petronas car started from the pole and led all but four laps en route to scoring his 13th career win in Formula 1, fifth of the season and second at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo.

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."