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  • 2015 Formula One Monaco Grand Prix to be aired live on Star Sports

    2015 Formula One Monaco Grand Prix to be aired live on Star Sports

    MUMBAI: Nico Rosberg will be aiming to complete a hat-trick of wins at the Monaco Grand Prix and make further inroads into Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton’s championship lead, as Formula One takes to the streets of the glamorous Principality this weekend.

    Rosberg scored his first win of the season at the last race in Spain, cutting Hamilton’s lead in the standings to 20 points as he got his title challenge underway after a lackluster start to his campaign.

    He will be aiming to repeat that result and build momentum behind his title charge this weekend.

    Part of the triple crown of motor-racing, the Monaco Grand Prix presents a unique challenge to drivers and has been likened to riding a bicycle around one’s living room. Cars thread their way through the tight, twisting streets of the Principality, hemmed in by unforgiving barriers that leave absolutely no room for error.

    Rosberg has excelled in the narrow confines of Monaco, winning the race in the last two years. He is the only multiple winner of the race among the current crop of drivers, apart from Fernando Alonso, and could become only the fourth driver since Graham Hill, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna to win the race three times in a row.

    Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen and Jenson Button are the other drivers in the field to have won in Monaco.

    Given the relatively slower average speed per lap, the Monaco Grand Prix runs for the shortest distance of all races on the calendar. Drivers will lap the 3.34 km-long circuit a total of 78 times.

  • Laureus ambassador Nico Rosberg swaps his Formula One

    Laureus ambassador Nico Rosberg swaps his Formula One

    MUMBAI: Young people from the Laureus-supported Magic Bus project in India have enjoyed a day they will never forget with Formula One star Nico Rosberg at the Indian Grand Prix.

    The highlight of the visit came when Laureus Ambassador Rosberg, who drives for the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ team and won the Monaco and British Grands Prix this year, personally welcomed the 20 youngsters in their bus as they headed for the Buddh International Circuit.

    Nico, who has won three Grands Prix since he joined Formula One in 2006, said: “Sport is so effective in inspiring young people and giving them hope for the future. Nowhere is this more true than in India where so many children have to struggle from the day they are born.

    “The work Laureus does around the world to support projects like Magic Bus is wonderful and I was pleased I was able to meet the guys and talk to them. I took the chance to show them around on my working desk in the team’s garage. I think they were amazed by the whole day and I hope they will be inspired by the visit and become role models for the other young people at Magic Bus. I certainly found it moving listening to some of their stories about what life has been like for them and how they have been given support and direction by the project and now have much more hope for their future.”

    Nico led a question and answer session with the young people, and also donated footballs which were loaded into the bus for the youngsters to take back to the project.

    Since its inception Magic Bus, which originated in Mumbai, has reached out to 250,000 children. Through activity-based learning issues such as gender equality, health and hygiene, the programme aims to build a poverty-free future for children. The project works with children and their communities for up to ten years on a journey from childhood to livelihood. Their work helps to ensure that they create a new generation of economically independent citizens who are fully equipped to participate in, contribute to and, even, shape tomorrow’s India.

    Nico Rosberg is a Laureus Ambassador, a select group of current and retired sportsmen and sportswomen, who, along with the members of the Laureus World Sports Academy, support the work of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.

    Mercedes-Benz and IWC Schaffhausen are Global Partners of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. IWC Schaffhausen is the Official Engineering Partner to MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS.

    Since its inception the Foundation has raised more than €60 million for projects which have helped to improve the lives of over one-and-a-half million young people. Laureus currently supports more than 140 projects in 34 countries.