Manama - Former McLaren driver Gerhard Berger has compared Nico Rosberg's role as team-mate to world champion Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes with his own travails alongside three-time champion Ayrton Senna some 25 years ago.
The Austrian, now 55, who won 10 of his 210 races in Formula One, said he saw a similarity in their struggles against champion team-mates, but added that Rosberg could still emerge victorious.
"My situation in 1990 was quite comparable to that of Nico and Lewis. In the beginning, I could keep up very well, I was a nuisance for Senna, but eventually I lost my nerve.
"And when he won his second title, it was even more difficult for me because by then he was so confident," Berger told German newspaper the Suddeutsche Zeitung.
Rosberg has won once in the last 12 races since he triumphed at his home German Grand Prix last July while, in the same time, Hamilton has won eight races.
This struggle to triumph has prompted many F1 paddock observers to compare Rosberg's position with not only that of Berger alongside Senna, but also Italian Riccardo Patrese with Briton Nigel Mansell at Williams in 1992.
AFP
