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Who is Pascal Wehrlein
Formula One's newly-crowned world champion Nico Rosberg stunned the sporting world on Friday after he announced his retirement with immediate effect.
Rosberg, who won his maiden Formula One title last week, leaves a vacant seat at Mercedes and the bookmakers' favourite to succeed him is Pascal Wehrlein. But who is he?
A member of the Mercedes junior programme, and a driver who has filled in for both Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton in testing, the German has spent his debut season driving for Manor - and has hardly set the world alight.
