Nico Rosberg

Overall he competed in 206 Grands Prix, winning 23, securing 57 podium finishes, 30 pole positions, and amassing 1594.5 championship points.

In retirement, Rosberg moved into driver management, television punditry, and became an eco-entrepreneur.

Nico Erik Rosberg (born 27 June 1985) is a German and Finnish entrepreneur and former professional racing driver.

Rosberg was born on 27 June 1985 at the Red Cross Hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany, the only child of Finnish racing driver Keke Rosberg, who won the Formula One World Championship, and German interpreter Gesine "Sina" Rosberg (formerly Gleitsmann-Dengel).

Because his father is Finnish and his mother is German, Rosberg is a citizen of both countries, competing with a Finnish racing license until after his first season in the Formula 3 Euro Series.

He switched to a German license as he felt it was easier to obtain major sponsorship agreements with nationality of a larger country.

Rosberg was raised in the Wiesbaden district of Nordenstadt in the first four weeks of his life, before living between the principality of Monaco and the Spanish island of Ibiza.

He was educated at the International School of Nice and the International School of Monaco.

Rosberg was encouraged to pursue ventures in academia and sports.

He was taught five languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, but not Finnish or Swedish, as his father considered those other languages more important for Nico's life and career.

Rosberg enjoyed studying mathematics and science, and passed all of his examinations except history.

Rosberg began competitive racing at the age of six and decided to aim for a career in Formula One motor racing after he observed his father competing in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft in 1995.

His parents, who did not discourage their son's career choice, consented on the condition that he maintained good grades at school.

Rosberg's competitive mindset, and his early achievements in go-karting helped him to improve his driving ability and to convince his father to manage him.

In 1996, Rosberg won the Côte d'Azur Mini-Kart Regional Championship, and the Trophee Jérôme Bernard and the Trophee de France in 1997.

Aged 12, he was the youngest champion of a French national karting series.

Rosberg finished second in the French Manufacturers' Trophy and the Côte d'Azur Regional Championship in the same year.

He progressed to the European karting championships for 1998 after moving from France to Italy so he could enter international events.

Competing in the 100 Junior category in a CRG kart, Rosberg finished fifth at the 28° Torneo Industrie, seventh in the Trofeo Andrea Margutti, and crashed out in the 1998 Green Helmet Trophy Cadets class of the European Championship for Cadets.

In 1999, he was runner-up in the Italian Junior Karting Championship and was fourth in the ICA Junior CIK-FIA European Championship, again driving a CRG.

Rosberg's father asked CRG executive Dino Chiesa in late 1999 to establish a separate karting team for his son and fellow driver Lewis Hamilton for a period of two to three years.

Rosberg raced for TeamMBM.com (Mercedes-Benz McLaren) for the 2000 season.

At the age of 16, he progressed to car racing, winning nine races to claim the 2002 Formula BMW ADAC Championship with VIVA Racing.

He graduated with an average grade of 1.2 in 2002.

He subsequently moved to the higher-tier Formula 3 Euro Series with Team Rosberg in 2003 and 2004 before winning the inaugural GP2 Series championship with ART Grand Prix in 2005.

Rosberg first drove in Formula One with Williams from to and achieved two podium finishes for the team in.

For, he moved to Mercedes, partnering fellow German and seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher.

Rosberg took his first career win at the.

He competed in Formula One from 2006 to 2016, winning the World Drivers' Championship in with Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport.

The only child of Finnish Formula One World Champion Keke Rosberg and his German wife Sina Rosberg, he was raised primarily in the Principality of Monaco.

Rosberg began competitive go-kart racing at the age of six and achieved early success, winning regional and national French championships, before moving to European-based series and world championships.

Rosberg married interior designer Vivian Sibold at a civil ceremony in Monaco on 11 July 2014.

They have two children, and run a creamery shop in Ibiza.

He is a fan of the German football club FC Bayern Munich, played for the Monaco national tennis team, and formerly competed in triathlon events; these skills allowed him to save a five-year-old child from drowning in Monaco.

At the age of four, Rosberg had his first driving experience when his father took him to a go-kart track in Ibiza for a holiday.

He steered a Jeep, and his father controlled its speed with the accelerator and the brake pedals.

He was the teammate of former karting friend and eventual seven-time World Drivers' Champion, Lewis Hamilton, from to 2016, twice finishing runner-up to his teammate, and in his final season defeating Hamilton to win the 2016 title.

He and his father Keke are the second father-son pairing, after Graham and Damon Hill, that have both won World Drivers' Championships.

Rosberg announced his retirement from motor racing five days after clinching the title, citing wanting to spend more time with his family and not wanting his driving ability to atrophy as the main factors behind his decision.

He was awarded the Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year and was inducted into the FIA Hall of Fame in 2017.