Nico Rosberg has offered Red Bull's Max Verstappen advice on how to beat Lewis Hamilton this season.
The two Formula 1 stars will face each other as the championship battle will continue at the United States Grand Prix this weekend.
Ahead of the competition, Rosberg, who is still the only driver to have beaten seven-time world champion Hamilton in the current turbo-hybrid era, has revealed how Verstappen could celebrate a victory.
"To win a Formula One World Championship, first of all you need to look at your rival,”the former Mercedes driver told Square Mile.
“In this case it was Lewis, he was the only real rival, and he’s now proven to be the best of all time, so the level is unbelievably high.
“But, as is the case with any human, there’s also some weaknesses.
“First of all, it’s important to be at your absolute 110 per cent for the whole season, because anything less you’re just not going to have a chance against him.
“And it’s also important to be consistent over the whole season, to really not have any big, bad races, and deliver at every moment.
“And then Lewis also has these periods where he loses a bit of motivation – he has these dips in form – and there it’s important to maximise those moments, to keep him down for a bit longer.
“If all these ingredients come together you stand a chance, and that’s what happened in 2016.”
He added:
“The pivotal moment was in Suzuka where I got pole position by two-hundredths of a second. Lewis was on provisional pole, and then I came round and I beat him by the smallest of margins. Two hundredths, for me, was my leg muscles that I dropped in the summer break by stopping cycling.
“One kilo is three-hundredths of a second per lap, so I was looking for an extra bit of performance, anything that could give me the slightest edge.
“I was already super thin, so I couldn’t lose weight, but I still had these leg muscles to get rid of, so I got rid of those across a two-month period, and that proved enough to get me pole position in Suzuka.
“I think Lewis was really put off by that pole position and then he lost his way a bit that weekend – he messed up the start on Sunday and went back to eighth place, and only finished third – while I had quite an easy win. That really gave me the championship lead, and ultimately that proved decisive.”
