Nico Rosberg was relieved to make it to the flag in front in Austria after concerns about a vibration in the closing laps.
It resulted not from a flat spot, but from tire degradation, and it led to the German to urgently request his pit to keep an eye on it. The assured him that it would not be an issue, and he managed to stay safely ahead of teammate Lewis Hamilton.
“It was just a vibration picking up on the right front,” he said. “So, [I was] just telling them to keep an eye on it – but it was fine in the end. It sort of stabilized so it was not a problem. It just came from the tire wear and just feels a bit uncomfortable when that happens – but, no, it was all fine.”
He'd also suffered just before his first stop: “It was the graining on the right front and it’s very difficult to predict how it comes, when it comes, and I suppose that I just got more than Lewis at the time. But I was confident that I could stay ahead because the guy who stops first then has the new tires and I could push and definitely open up the gap again, so that was all fine.”
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