Mercedes aims to give Nico Rosberg a winning car soon, but the German is also learning to be patient.<\/p>\n
Now with more than 100 grands prix behind him, the 26-year-old is yet to record a single race victory and he has now re-signed with Mercedes for at least the next two or three seasons.<\/p>\n
Then called Brawn, the Brackley based team won the world championship with Jenson Button in 2009, but that was on the coat-tails of the hundreds of millions invested by Honda.<\/p>\n
Today is different, Mercedes-Benz’s Norbert Haug warns.<\/p>\n
“He needs to understand that the team is still young,” the German is quoted as saying by Turun Sanomat newspaper.<\/p>\n
“Brawn won the championship in 2009 but now the team has a completely different structure.<\/p>\n
“Mercedes makes the engines but the rest of the budget comes from sponsors and the income from FOM.”<\/p>\n
Haug likens Rosberg to Mika Hakkinen, who after years of toiling without tasting a win finally broke through at the end of 1997 with Mercedes power.<\/p>\n
“After that he couldn’t be stopped,” he said.<\/p>\n
With his new contract in his pocket, Rosberg revealed in Abu Dhabi that he is prepared to wait a little longer for his breakthrough.<\/p>\n
“I would say that right now it will be a lot of patience (needed),” he told F1’s official website.\u00a0 “But there is no doubt in my mind that it is absolutely worth it.”<\/p>\n
The German is quoted by Auto Motor und Sport as revealing that amid the recent interest of some other teams, he was buoyed by Mercedes’ obvious determination to succeed.<\/p>\n
“The decisive thing for my decision was the commitment of the management, underlined by the signing of Geoff Willis and Aldo Costa.<\/p>\n
“It is quite clear that Mercedes wants to be the best team on the grid.”<\/p>\n
Finally, Rosberg – who doesn’t have a manger – thanked his famous father Keke for his help in organising the new Mercedes deal.<\/p>\n
“He took care of the paperwork and I am grateful for that,” he said.<\/p>\n
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