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OPINION: The great driver that F1 supposedly hasn't missed

The festive season marked a year since the newly crowned world champion Nico Rosberg dropped one of the biggest bombshells in F1 history. In announcing his retirement Rosberg appeared to many to cap-off the defining achievement of his career by exiting the sport for a quieter family life with his head held high. And yet his shock retirement sent out so many mixed messages that further confused the legacy of an already very complex character. On paper, the loss of a driver, asterisks aside, who had the skill and ability to beat Lewis Hamilton over the course of the season is a galling loss. Surely the untimely loss of any one of a sport's select elite dilutes the essential quality of the...
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