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Rosberg staying at Mercedes until 2018


Recipe One title pioneer Nico Rosberg has marked another agreement that will keep him at Mercedes with Lewis Hamilton until the end of the 2018 season, the group said on Friday.

The group tweeted video of the 31-year-old German, runner up to Briton Hamilton in the title throughout the previous two years, marking the agreement to race for the group in the 2017 and 2018 seasons.

"We are enchanted to report that the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula 1 Team has marked a two-year contract augmentation with Nico Rosberg for the 2017 and 2018 Formula One seasons," Mercedes later affirmed in an announcement.

"Nico has been a center individual from the Silver Arrows since the group came back to the game in 2010 and has assumed a pivotal part in the group's accomplishment in that time."


Rosberg joined Mercedes from Williams in 2010 and has won 19 grands prix for the group, including five this year. He has helped Mercedes to the producers' title for the last two seasons.

Three-times Formula One champion Hamilton marked a three-year manage the group all the way to the finish of the 2018 season in May a year ago.

Rosberg holds a one-point lead over Hamilton in the drivers' standings heading into this current weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix, down from a forcing 43 focuses in May.

The pair have exasperated group supervisors with their on-track contention now and again this season, especially after they crashed on the last lap of the Austrian Grand Prix with the outcome that Rosberg completed fourth in a harmed auto.

The group said before the British Grand Prix prior this month, in any case, that they would not force "group orders" on their drivers.

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