São Paulo, Brazil — At the penultimate race of the season, the Brazilian Grand Prix in São Paulo on Sunday, there was no mistaking who the most motivated drivers in the race were.
The Mercedes team and Lewis Hamilton had already secured the constructors’ and drivers’ titles several races before the end of the season. But on Sunday, Hamilton and his teammate Nico Rosberg engaged in a ferocious battle from beginning to end, with neither driver wanting to cede any available chance for victory.
Continuing his late season revival, Rosberg showed again that he is determined not to collapse under the pressure of losing the drivers’ title to his boyhood friend two seasons in a row.