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Nico Rosberg says his Mercedes rivalry with Lewis Hamilton went too far, but the team are showing now they learned from it.

Mercedes’ dominance began at the start of the turbo-hybrid era back in 2014, with the rivalry between Hamilton and Rosberg growing in intensity as the seasons passed.

After the relationship between the pair had totally broken down, with Mercedes putting combat rules and sanctions in place to control their drivers, Rosberg retired from Formula 1 shortly after beating Hamilton to the 2016 Drivers’ title.

Looking back, Rosberg knows the rivalry with Hamilton was “too extreme”.

“We made it extremely difficult,” he told Sky F1.

“It went to the point that we had a code of conduct, a paper, what we were allowed to do in a wheel-to-wheel battle, even penalties with a lot of zeros on them attached to that because there was no other way. It just got too heated and too extreme.”

Team principal Toto Wolff vowed he would not allow such a situation to develop at Mercedes again and Rosberg’s replacement, Valtteri Bottas, created a much calmer vibe and a strong working relationship with Hamilton in his five seasons with the team, although the arrival of George Russell for 2022 had the potential to bring that edge back.

So far though, there has been no flashpoints between Hamilton and Russell, with Rosberg crediting Wolff for the job he is doing in managing that dynamic.

“I think Toto has