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Rosberg rues 'costly' penalty after kerb mishap

Nico Rosberg fears that his 24-point F1 world championship advantage over Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton will be under threat in Sunday's Austrian Grand Prix after he picked up a penalty between final practice and qualifying at the Red Bull Ring. Although he qualified second to his world champion team-mate, Rosberg will drop to sixth on the grid on Sunday after the Mercedes team anticipated that an accident in the morning session could have damaged the gearbox on his W07 and performed a precautionary change while they rebuilt the car at both ends. Rosberg had yet to set a competitive lap when he lost control of the Mercedes on the exit of turn two, although replays later showed the...
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