Rosberg wins in home soil and increases lead

After retiring in Silverstone, Rosberg returned this weekend to wins by winning the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim. The German had a comfortable victory and iincreased his lead from Hamilton in the championship leaderboard.

In Hockenheim Nico Rosberg took his fourth win of the season and confirmed the first position achieved in qualifying on Saturday. Valteri Bottas made WilliamsWilliamsUnited Kingdom, 1977 > present37 models
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smile once again with yet another presence on the podium. The Finn defended second place from the other Mercedes of Hamilton.

Although he is now 14 points behind Rosberg, Hamilton has no reason to feel disappointed with the third place finish since he managed to climb from 20th place at start to the lowest step of the podium. However this jump in the standings was not easy and the British driver didn't prevent some contacts with Adrian Sutil and Kimi Raikkonen. In a place dispute with Jenson Button, Hamilton ended up damaging his front wing which eventually compromised MercedesMercedes-BenzGermany, 1924 > present197 models
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' strategy. At the end of the day Hamilton was just 1.7 seconds behind Bottas.

With a two-stop strategy, Valteri Bottas achieved in Germany his third consecutive podium. In the opposite direction, Felipe Massa failed to finish after a contact with Kevin Magnussen in the first corner of the race. While Massa was forced to retire, Magnussen remained on track but far from the top positions. Australian Daniel Ricciardo also lost some ground in the chaos.

Sebastian Vettel eventually benefitted and climbed to third place momentarily. He would eventually fall a position and finish the race in fourth place, after another battle with Fernando Alonso. Daniel Ricciardo also approached the Spaniard in the final laps but had to settle for sixth place.

With a third very late stop Jenson Button ended up losing seventh place to Nico Hulkenberg's Force IndiaForce IndiaIndia, 2007 > present8 models
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and Magnussen finished the race in ninth place. The last scoring place left went to Sergio Perez, ahead of Raikkonen's FerrariFerrariItaly, 1947 > present233 models
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.

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