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Nico Rosberg faces rain ordeal to claim first title at Brazilian Grand Prix
For so long in the contrails of Lewis Hamilton, a driver with whom he has duelled ever since their days as cherubic karting prodigies, Nico Rosberg knows that he will never have a better chance than this. Here in the sultry heat of Sao Paulo, the German whose driving has become a byword for precision and reliability understands that a victory will be enough to seize his first world title, 34 years after his father Keke did the same.
The only problem is that it is forecast to rain. And when the track starts to slicken, there is usually only one winner, and it is not the tanned Teuton with the blond hair. Hamilton, as he proved so often, is without peer in this crop of drivers when it comes to the wet.
Whether in negotiating torrential downpours at the Fuji Speedway in 2007, or carving expertly through late showers to win at Silverstone last year, he has a mastery of damp conditions that should make Rosberg nervous – especially when the sweeping corners of Interlagos look likely to be drenched once more.
It would hardly be the Brazilian Grand Prix without a cloudburst or two.
