Nico Rosberg considers that Valtteri Bottas can act better, than he proved in last season of royal races, and advised it to disturb properly Lewis Hamilton in the 2019th.
Rosberg defeated Hamilton fight for the championship title of the season of the 2016th when they were workmates in Mercedes then the German in the end of the year declared career ending.
Signed with Mercedes the contract with Bottas to replace Nicko, but after the strong first season during which he won three Gran Pri the campaign of 2018 came out poor and dim.
Rosberg, now the expert of Sky F1, acting in day of advertizing shooting of TV channel, considers that the beginning of the season will be critical for Bottas.
"Valtteri is much better, than he could prove to be recently, - Rosberg told Sky Sports News. – Everything will be started over again with the new season, and it has good chance to be approved on stronger position and even fairly to anger Lewis.
I think, it is possible. It always depends on how the season will begin.
Last year he also was very not lucky. If good luck on its party and he well begins the season, the situation can develop absolutely differently".
Bottas helped Mercedes to win the fifth contract the Constructors championship while Hamilton won 11 victories and the fifth championship title.
Rosberg considers that it is necessary for ""Formula One"" that his former team was rolled away back and that others caught up with it.
"It was the surprising period of success, but time for changes not necessarily came – time for new battles came, and after that let the best team will win, - he told. – The best was Mercedes in recent years. We want it to be equal to the others, we want to see the real fight".
Last year Ferraris and Sebastian Vettel threw down the serious challenge to Mercedes, but lost thanks to mistakes both the pilot, and team.
Red Bull in the end of the year also became real threat, and Rosberg told that he would like to see Max Verstappen's team which from the 2019th passed to engines of Honda, "ahead or at least with the participant of tripartite fight".
"It would be abruptly, - he added. – I hope, this year it will occur.
For this purpose there is the real opportunity as rules of cars very much changed. And all had to start anew".