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Rosberg picks up point in slower Williams

Bafflingly, the Williams-Toyota has remained off the pace for most of the weekend in Belgium although Nico Rosberg was still able to complete a strong race to collect another point on Sunday. Having qualified tenth, the German keeps up his record of having not scored in only two races so far this year.

After failing to make the top eight in China and Bahrain, Nico has now extended his run of consecutive points finishes to an impressive eight Grands Prix. "We got absolutely the maximum out of today and so I am not so unhappy with the result!" he smiled in the aftermath of an eventful Grand Prix.

"Even though the car was not good at all on Friday, we moved it forward and had a reasonable qualifying; we built on that with a good start to the race and claimed another point, finishing in 8th place.

"It is more than I could have hoped for at the beginning of the weekend. The car was difficult to drive today and it had a lot to do with the tyres; when the sun came out, the tyres worked well, especially the Soft tyres in the final stint - in these conditions I was able to push more."

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