Nico Rosberg conquered the world, then dropped the mic back in 2016...
Nico Rosberg has revealed that he left an eye-watering €100million Mercedes salary on the table with his decision to retire from F1 at the end of his title-winning 2016 season.
Rosberg’s decision to retire came a matter of months after he signed a new two-year contract to remain with Mercedes until the end of the 2018 season, with Valtteri Bottas promoted from Williams as Hamilton’s new team-mate from 2017. He said: “I had an existing contract for two more years and if I had simply continued driving for a few more years, that would easily have been 100 million.
“Because I knew that I could fulfil everything with what I earned anyway, including my children and grandchildren.”After Rosberg gave Hamilton a puncture at the start of the 2014 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa, for instance, the former had to fork out a six-figure sum with the funds reportedly going to charity.“We had to sign a contract that from now on, if we crash, no matter whose fault it is, we will pay for the damage.
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