It is likely that Nico will be world championship in 2016, since it has only taken three second places and a third place on the four GP left from the World tournament. He might even crown himself in Mexico; it would only take just another big mistake from his teammate and rival.

It’s worth to mention, that this driver –now at the tip of the tail– he is not the result of an spontaneous generation, since being the son of a Formula 1 world champion (Keke Rosberg in 1982), he is Michael Schumacher’s fellow with seven crowns along his career and Sebastian Vettel ‘s with four more.

These factors are important since they are part of his nature coming from a caste with the tradition of teaching people to do their best performance. Tradition kills improvisation…

The German driving school didn’t emerge yesterday its solidity allows it to go back to the early Twentieth Century to find great wheels. It should not be circumvented that in Goethe’s country car racing has been theme practically since combustion engine was invented.

Germany Car Industry is really advanced and has always aimed their creations to be subject to the limits and there is no better way than facing their rivals. This is why the local racing league, DTM; or the category where only Porsche cars race each other is so important.

A little after 1950, some German cars began their formation in teams, such as: Veritas (1951), BMW (1952), AFM (1952), EMW (1953), MSM (1953), KLENK (1954) and of course, Mercedes (1954). Which means that if cars were taken, they necessarilly had to have someone to drive them and who did it well.

To name a few of the pioneers: Karl Kling (1910-2003) driving a Mercedes between 1954 and 1955. Hermann Lang (1909-1987) who worked for Maserati and Mercedes, Rudolf Krause (1907-1987) who worked for BMW, Paul Pietsch (1911-2012) performing for: Maserati, Veritas and Alfa Romeo. Wolfgang Seidel (1926-1987) signed with Maserati, Cooper, Emeryson, Lotus and Porsche. Also Hans Herrman (1928) Fangio and Moss’s teammate in Mercedes.

It is important to mention apart, a driver who could have made it to the top, since he was phenomenal. He got killed aboard a Monza in 1961 that is when Wolfgang von Trips’s legend began (1928- 1961).

As we can see, there are ancestors and the power of the good blood given by the eleven crowns got between M. Schumacher y Vettel.

Even so, it is important to add that Germany has registered 62 drivers between 1950 and 2016. We enlist then, those who accumulated more races till our days:

Schumacher 307

Nico Rosberg 202

Nick Heidfeld 183

Ralf Schumacher 180

Sebastian Vettel 174

Heinz-Harald Frentzen 156

Adrian Sutil 128

Nico Hulkenberg 111

Jochen Mass 105

Timo Glock 91

Hans Joachim Stuck 74

Rolf Stomemlen 53

Manfred Winkelhock 47

Christian Danner 36

Wolfgang von Trips 27

Stefan Bellof 20

Hans Herrmann 17

Pascal Wehrlein 17

Karl Kling 11

Bernd Schneider 9

and Wolfgang Seidel 9

What was read out here doesn’t mean that everything was sweet as honey, because there have also existed most-talked mediocrities: Nick Heidfeld is the second most unproductive driver in Formula 1’s history, with 183 GP without one single victory.

Adrian Sutil is the number seven with 128 races and having never won a race or having gotten a Pole Position either, he also has the record of being number one without podiums with although having so many races in his career.

Nico Hulkenberg has been in 111 races without a single victory, he is the 9º most ineffective without winning and the third without having climbed the podium in the supreme category.

Hans Joachim Stuck is placed in position 14º of productivity, after 74 Grand Prix, he never got anything. And of course you learn yourself from the bad path.

It doesn’t matter whether you are German or Nigerian, top category’s drivers profession demands many factors for crystallizing something really big.

Nico Rosberg’s pass through, although it hasn’t been stunning, it is very likely to enter into F1‘s golden pages soon. Given that between 993 drivers enlisted with their records, only 32 have been crowned as kings of the globe.

It is pretty clear: many of them have been involved in the game, but only a few with the biggest trophy.