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Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher finished the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim in eighth and ninth positions for the Mercedes Grand Prix team this afternoon, scoring more vital world championship points at their home event.
Michael made up three places at the start to be running in eighth position with Nico shadowing him in ninth place. He made his only pit stop on lap 14 with Nico staying out longer and making his stop on lap 24.
Despite the two quickest stops of the race, neither driver was able to jump Robert Kubica, with Nico's later stop being enough to move him ahead of Michael.
"We made the best of our situation today but it is frustrating after being on the podium at the last race. Achieving eighth place is damage limitation really and we were able to minimise the loss to Robert in terms of points but it has generally been a struggle this weekend,” Nico said. “My strategy was good and the guys made a fantastic effort with my pit stop being the quickest of the race. There are surely better times ahead in Hungary."
"I had a pretty good start today but from then onwards, there was not much more that we could do. We were targeting to stay out long but we changed the strategy to react to the circumstances and maybe I could have finished slightly higher,” Schumacher added. “But in the end, that would not have changed much in a race where we had hoped to be more competitive.”
“ What we achieved after my stop was the maximum that was possible. Of course I would have wished for more, especially as our race performance tends to be better than qualifying, but it did not work out. We will certainly not get nervous but we have to sit down, analyse the reasons and put the right solutions in place." |
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