The European Grand Prix was one of those crazy races that saw all four seasons take place over a two hour period, and it turned out to be heartbreaking for home hero, Williams racer Nico Rosberg, who ended up being one o the early casualties of the sudden downpour. Although they were aware that rain as on its way, no one was expecting a river to run across the track and take out a number of racers, but that’s exactly what happened.

While his teammate, Alex Wurz went on to finish fourth, with only 13 classified finishers, Nico would have stood a good chance of scoring points had he been there at the end….

“Rain started to fall as we accelerated away from the grid and it got heavier during the course of lap one. I was on the hard tyre, which made it difficult to get heat into the rubber and my FW29 was sliding around a lot. I made contact with Rubens Barrichello midway through the lap, but made it back to the pits to change tyres. The rain still wasn't falling hard, so we decided to put on intermediates. But, as I accelerated out of the pits, the heavens opened,” he explained on the team’s official website.

“The track conditions were awful and on the approach to Turn 1 I hit a river running across the track and aquaplaned off. I was a passenger. As I came to rest in the gravel, the engine stalled and my race was over. While I was very disappointed to retire from my home race, on a track that I know so well, there was some good news for Williams. My team-ate Alex Wurz came fourth, giving the team some valuable points for the Constructors' Championship.”

Since the European event, Nico has been busy testing for his Williams team at the Jerez circuit and now he is focused on the next round of the 2007 season, the upcoming Hungarian Grand Prix that will take place this coming weekend….

“It's a physical race because the temperatures can be very hot there, and it's also a race where qualifying is vital because it's so difficult to overtake. Let's hope I can have a better race there than I did in Germany!”