![]() The Japanese Grand Prix came just after Hamilton’s season-defining blown engine at Malaysia, where he had dominated the race and was poised to take control of the championship before his late retirement. That then got me the big championship lead, because I won that race.” And the leg muscles were four hundredths of a second. I lost one kilo of leg muscles in the summer, and in Japan after the summer I was on pole by three hundredths of a second from Lewis. And so I stopped cycling to lose the leg muscles. I can’t go on a diet in the middle of a season, because it’s just mentally and physically too tough. “So I stopped cycling last year because in the summer I was really breaking my head over ‘how can I lose another kilo in the middle of a season?’ Rosberg explained to Froome that he was desperately finding a way to lose one kilogram of weight, but he couldn’t deal with the strain of starting a diet – so he simply stopped cycling. With the two Mercedes dominating the rest of the field, the battle for the championship came down to the slimmest of margins between the German and the then-three-time World Champion. Rosberg won the first four races of the F1 season to build a lead over his Mercedes teammate, but Hamilton responded by winning six of seven Grands Prix beginning in Monaco. Nico Rosberg went for a ride around the Formula 1 circuit in his home city of Monaco with four time Tour de France champion Chris Froome in a video for the BBC, and during their chat Rosberg revealed the incredible way he gained an edge on Lewis Hamilton during the 2016 season.
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