The two characters that have set the
Formula One season alight are ideally drawn for dramatic effect:
Englishman Lewis Hamilton, the fastest driver of his generation yet
emotionally vulnerable, against the German Nico Rosberg, only a fraction
slower but ice cool in his calculation.
The
stewards cleared Rosberg of deliberately thwarting Hamilton’s final
qualifying lap at the Monaco Grand Prix by running off the track at
Mirabeau corner. Rosberg started from pole, won the race and took the
championship lead off Hamilton.
But
if Rosberg did know what he was doing — as many, though not all,
paddock observers believe — it was a crime perpetrated with so much
forethought and so immaculately executed that it is hard not to equate
Rosberg to the sort of villain who strokes a white cat...
