| (Non football) Rosberg retires! 14:40 - Dec 2 with 1436 views | SimonJames |
Talk about getting out when you're ahead.
Nico Rosberg retires: World champion quits Formula 1 five days after title win
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/38185846
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| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 14:53 - Dec 2 with 1416 views | Juzzie |
Was just about to post the same.
I think it strange that you wouldn't want to defend your title, unless he doesn't think he can cut it.
He's 31, got many years racing left in him I'd have thought.
Anyway, I stopped watching F1 years ago as for me both the races and racers are dull as ditch water.
[Post edited 2 Dec 2016 14:53]
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| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 15:00 - Dec 2 with 1404 views | FredManRave |
I once knew a girl that used to talk about going out and giving head.
She's since retired as well. |  |
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| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 15:12 - Dec 2 with 1382 views | Boston |
| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 15:00 - Dec 2 by FredManRave |
I once knew a girl that used to talk about going out and giving head.
She's since retired as well. |
Was that supposed to be in the Cheese Porn thread? |  |
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| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 15:33 - Dec 2 with 1355 views | Hoop_Du_Jour |
Can't fault the bloke. He's been in the trade for 25 years, absolutely minted and 31. Why risk life and limb when he can kick back and enjoy a life most would envy? |  | | |
| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 16:14 - Dec 2 with 1320 views | SimonJames |
| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 15:33 - Dec 2 by Hoop_Du_Jour |
Can't fault the bloke. He's been in the trade for 25 years, absolutely minted and 31. Why risk life and limb when he can kick back and enjoy a life most would envy? |
Fair point. But I imagine that if you're the World Champion it's going to boost your "pay grade" (particularly with advertisers) so there must be a temptation to give it one more year and trouser an extra large wad of cash. | |
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| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 17:15 - Dec 2 with 1277 views | Hoop_Du_Jour |
| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 16:14 - Dec 2 by SimonJames |
Fair point. But I imagine that if you're the World Champion it's going to boost your "pay grade" (particularly with advertisers) so there must be a temptation to give it one more year and trouser an extra large wad of cash. |
I expect he'll milk the media for what he can in the following year. Advertising Alpen, Paco Rabanne and Jags. Lot safer than thundering round a track in a plastic car at 200 mph! When he gets bored of that he can go the touring car route like so many before him. | | | |
| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 18:14 - Dec 2 with 1246 views | Jamie |
31 years old, £50m+ in the bank, model wife, young child, at the pinnacle of the career so why not.
Added bonus being that he will never be forced to be around Hamilton again. | | | |
| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 19:32 - Dec 2 with 1193 views | SimonJames |
| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 18:14 - Dec 2 by Jamie |
31 years old, £50m+ in the bank, model wife, young child, at the pinnacle of the career so why not.
Added bonus being that he will never be forced to be around Hamilton again. |
Well I hope he keeps away from extreme skiing and other substitutes for his adrenaline rush. | |
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| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 19:39 - Dec 2 with 1190 views | BlackCrowe |
Fair play to him. It's his title to lose, so he quits at the top. In truth, he probably knew that Hamilton is the hungrier and arguably better racer (if perhaps not driver) and couldn't stomach another season of what was relationship carnage with him.
But he'll never be considered a true great. Button won it back in 2009 and noone really thinks of him as a great. A top bloke yes, but a true legend absolutely not. |  |
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| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 21:01 - Dec 2 with 1143 views | QPR_Jim |
| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 19:39 - Dec 2 by BlackCrowe |
Fair play to him. It's his title to lose, so he quits at the top. In truth, he probably knew that Hamilton is the hungrier and arguably better racer (if perhaps not driver) and couldn't stomach another season of what was relationship carnage with him.
But he'll never be considered a true great. Button won it back in 2009 and noone really thinks of him as a great. A top bloke yes, but a true legend absolutely not. |
Agree with this, he's probably not a top driver like say Alonso or Hamilton. |  | | |
| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 03:40 - Dec 3 with 1072 views | FredManRave |
In my opinion it's a sign that he knows that he lucked out by beating Hamilton who is recognised as being the better driver and doesn't have the heart or the fight to try and prove himself again which in a way is understandable.
Maybe Ranieri is wishing that he did the same?! Dick Advocat should have left Sunderland at the end of THAT season?! Buster Douglas should have never fought again?! Redknapp should have left after Wembley?! (We (nearly) all wish he had!).
Anyway F1 these days is a very poor excuse for a sport. It's even worse than Premier League fooball. At least Leicester proved last season that's there's hope for the lesser teams, something which will never happen in F1. | |
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| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 13:53 - Dec 3 with 1008 views | Esox_Lucius |
Rosberg has even been quoted since his win that he thinks LH is one of the greatest ever F1 drivers, and he's not wrong. A lot of real winners are not likeable people, Mansell was the same, his crew hated him by all accounts and Nick Faldo was detested as an arrogant prick when he was at the peak of his career. If you put all this years drivers in identical, badly set up cars, my money would be on Hamilton or Alonso to finish first. Rosberg won fewer races, completed more (for the points) and I wouldn't be in the least surprised if Mercedes engineered it so that a German could win in a German marque. Some of the DNF's were completely out of left field IMO. |  |
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| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 20:26 - Dec 3 with 928 views | OakR |
| (Non football) Rosberg retires! on 15:33 - Dec 2 by Hoop_Du_Jour |
Can't fault the bloke. He's been in the trade for 25 years, absolutely minted and 31. Why risk life and limb when he can kick back and enjoy a life most would envy? |
My thoughts also.
I think he's probably had enough of the tension with Lewis, lots of criticism of him all the time, he's explained how much his wife has done with their young child, and he's basically said,hold on I'm loaded, I've not spent enough time with my child, I can now having achieved what I set out to.
I also think he sticks it to Hamilton a bit this way as Hamilton can't win the title back off him, I don't think it's the reason he did it but it's there.
I quite like Rosberg, always come across as nice guy.
He gets criticism whatever he does, and he will from some people for this, and there will be conspiracy theories in overdrive, but for me, it's a genuine 'I'm going to spend more time with my family' after they have sacrificed for me, and who can blame him? | |
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