02 November,2015 12:43 AM IST | | AFP
Nico Rosberg will start on pole in the Mexican Grand Prix after outpacing his Mercedes teammate and newly-crowned three-time world champion Lewis Hamilton in qualifying on Saturday
Mercedes's Nico Rosberg waves after winning pole in Mexico City
Mexico City: Nico Rosberg will start on pole in the Mexican Grand Prix after outpacing his Mercedes teammate and newly-crowned three-time world champion Lewis Hamilton in qualifying on Saturday.
Mercedes's Nico Rosberg waves after winning pole in Mexico City
Six days after their wheel-banging duel in Texas, where Hamilton won the United States Grand Prix to clinch the title, Rosberg secured his fourth consecutive pole by 0.188sec as Mercedes claimed their 13th front row lockout this year.
It was the 20th pole of Rosberg's career and continued to leave Hamilton frustrated as the Englishman seeks his 50th pole position. Hamilton has not started from pole since the Italian Grand Prix in early September.
Rosberg clocked a best lap of one minute and 19.480 seconds to outpace Hamilton by 0.188 seconds. Mercedes team chief Toto Wolff had an easy explanation for Rosberg's speed.
"Angry..." he said, referring to the 30-year-old German's tetchy reaction to being pushed off-track by Hamilton on the opening lap last weekend.
That failure to exploit pole and win represented another failure in Rosberg's current travails as he seeks to improve on just two wins from his last 10 pole positions.
