Nico Rosberg spills the beans on eye-watering bill footed after Lewis Hamilton crash

Nico Rosberg recalled how he was left with a six-figure sum to pay after he and then Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton collided.

And Rosberg would discuss one of the methods used by Mercedes in an effort to control this rivalry with Hamilton, that being to make the drivers contractually obliged to pay the repair bill after any incidents which they caused between them. “Because Lewis and I crashed, the team ended up making us pay for the damage,” Rosberg revealed when speaking on the

Interestingly, Rosberg by this point was all too aware of the pain of covering crash damage costs himself, revealing how his first salary – pocketed thanks to serving as the Williams test driver – was spent on paying off a loan used for repairs after a GP2 crash that same year in 2005.

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