Current world champion Sebastian Vettel, who is due to lose his crown to either Lewis Hamilton or Nico Rosberg next weekend, believes both drivers deserve the title.
The German doesn’t buy into the argument that Hamilton’s ten race wins to Rosberg’s five means he is more deserving, but argues the fellow German has been more consistent and is therefore just as deserving.
“Both deserve the title,” Vettel told Sport Bild. “Lewis has won more races than Nico, but Nico has driven very consistently and very cleverly.
“They are different kinds of drivers but both have done a very good job this year.”
He compared the title decider to 2010 when he trailed both Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso heading into the final race, but managed to out-smart them and take the victory and the title.
“Fortunately the others failed to bring home the points they needed,” he said of the race. “I was quite surprised, because the odds were that Fernando and Mark were much more likely statistically to be able to get the places they needed.
“So it’s a similarly difficult situation for Nico now as it was for me back then,” he added, lending Rosberg some advice: “I knew that my only chance was to win the race, so I just tried to concentrate on what I had to do. I didn’t want to be updated during the race on the provisional results of the world championship for example.”
