Nico Rosberg has described Mercedes as his “dream team” after extending his contract for a further two seasons.<\/p>\n
It was announced on Friday morning that Rosberg had signed a new deal which will keep him at Mercedes until the end of the 2018 season. By the time his current contract expires, Rosberg will have done nine consecutive seasons with the team having joined when Mercedes returned to F1 at the start of 2010.<\/p>\n
Asked if there was ever a chance of him not staying, Rosberg replied: “No, I\u2019ve always said that I\u2019m happy here.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m very, very happy with signing because it is my dream team and it\u2019s my family away from home. It\u2019s my racing family and we have a great time together. I\u2019m sure we will have a very, very successful future also.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course Gerhard Berger took charge of it for me, that was the best decision for sure and I\u2019m very thankful that he accepted to help out with it. He knows what he\u2019s doing, for sure, so I\u2019m very happy with the end result.<\/p>\n
“A few more years together at least and it\u2019s the best team. They give me an incredible car out there every time out there, even today on track it was phenomenal again. So yeah, it\u2019s special.\u201d<\/p>\n
And Rosberg explained he appointed Berger to help out with negotiations to allow him to focus on his title challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo reasons. One, because he knows what he\u2019s doing. The guy\u2019s clever, so he\u2019s done a great job with the negotiations and everything so I\u2019m very happy with the end result. And secondly because it always takes some focus off, negotiations are such a big thing. It\u2019s such an important thing in my job life and it allowed me to put 110% focus on my race driving and that\u2019s what I wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n