Players.bio is a large online platform sharing the best live coverage of your favourite sports: Football, Golf, Rugby, Cricket, F1, Boxing, NFL, NBA, plus the latest sports news, transfers & scores. Exclusive interviews, fresh photos and videos, breaking news. Stay tuned to know everything you wish about your favorite stars 24/7. Check our daily updates and make sure you don't miss anything about celebrities' lives.

Contacts

  • Owner: SNOWLAND s.r.o.
  • Registration certificate 06691200
  • 16200, Na okraji 381/41, Veleslavín, 162 00 Praha 6
  • Czech Republic

2016 Formula 1 champion Nico Rosberg brushes off a return as team boss

Nico Rosberg says he has no plans to return to Formula 1, having retired from the sport six years ago as a World Champion.

Having seen off his long-time rival and teammate Lewis Hamilton, Rosberg made the unexpected decision to walk away from the sport in 2016 despite only being 31.

Rosberg cited a desire to spend more time with his family due to his decision, something his fellow German Sebastian Vettel also suggested was behind his choice to retire at the end of the 2022 campaign.

Since then, Rosberg has dipped his toes into numerous other business ventures, such as founding his own Extreme E team, Rosberg X Racing.

The team finished second in the 2022 Championship, just two points behind Hamilton's team, and Rosberg said he had enjoyed the more relaxed lifestyle of the series.

'No' to F1

Asked by the Spanish newspaper AS if he saw himself running a team in any other series, Rosberg said his answer regarding a return to F1 was "clearly no."

"It's a good question," the 37-year-old said.

"A lot of people have asked me that since Extreme E is doing so incredibly well, would I want to be a team boss in a F1 team at some point? My answer is clearly no.

"The good thing about Extreme E is that there are not too many races. You know, at the moment, we have five races a year, and F1 has 24 races a year, so it's a full-time life commitment. There's very little room in the World Championship to spend time with family, friends… and I've done that.

"The racing driver I was and my current self don't want to do that ever again. That intensity, that dedication, that inflexibility in life… I love my life now, and that means I could never have a full-time job in F1."

The all-encompassing nature of the F1 season has even been brought up by the

Read more on news24.com