Nico Rosberg

Nico Erik Rosberg (born 27 June 1985) is a German racing driver for the Mercedes Formula
One team. He races under theGerman flag in Formula One, and has also briefly competed
for Finland very early in his career. He holds dual nationality of these two countries.
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Rosberg won the 2005 GP2 Series for the ART team, having raced in Formula 3 Euro
Series previously for his father Keke Rosberg's racing organisation Team Rosberg.
For the 2010 Formula One season, Rosberg joined the re-branded Mercedes team, formed by
Mercedes's takeover of 2009 constructors' champions Brawn GP. Since then, Rosberg has
enjoyed his most successful period, winning 7 Grands Prix and earning 11 pole positions.

Rosberg was born in Wiesbaden, Hesse, West Germany; the son of Finnish 1982 Formula One
world champion Keke Rosberg and his German wife Sina. Rosberg was born only four days after
his father won the 1985 Detroit Grand Prix, driving a Williams. Rosberg spent much of his youth
in Monaco with his family, and still lives in the principality. Nico holds dual citizenship, German
and Finnish and thus has competed under both the Finnish and German flag during different
points in his early career.
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He currently competes under the German flag as a driver's nationality
is defined by his passport during all FIA world championships.
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Rosberg married his childhood
friend and long-time fiance Vivian Sibold on 11 July 2014.
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Career
Junior formulae (19962004)

Rosberg won the 2002 GermanFormula BMW championship, an important milestone in his racing career.
Rosberg started out in karting in 1996 at the age of 10; later in 2000 he and Lewis Hamilton were
teammates.
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Rosberg then moved up toGerman Formula BMW in 2002, where he won the title.
His performances resulted in a move to drive for his father's team in Formula 3 Euro Series, a
combination of the several national Formula Three championships that had existed prior to its
formation. Rosberg did well there, and stayed on for 2004. In early 2004, he got one of his first
tastes of Formula One by doing a test session with Williams.
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GP2
ART Grand Prix (2005)
Offered a place on the aeronautical engineering course at Imperial College London;
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Rosberg
declined and in 2005 joined the ART Grand Prix team in the newly created GP2 Series. He went
on to become the first driver to win the GP2 title.