Nico Rosberg confident about outperforming Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg

Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg has said that he is confident about getting back on form and thereby competing successfully with teammate Lewis Hamilton.

Rosberg has been suffering successive defeats to Hamilton with the driver only managing to achieve a better finish than his teammate at Silverstone, where Hamilton’s tyre blew while leading the race.

“For one, Lewis has been doing a really, really good job and he’s on it. But that was clear from the beginning he was going to be a tough competitor, so he’s just done really, really well,” Rosberg said.

“From my side, [it's] just a bit of a phase where not everything is going 100% right. I go through these phases as a driver and come on out the other side then there’ll be a phase where everything does go right like at the beginning of the year in qualifying,” he added.

Rosberg finished behind Hamilton at fifth position in the Belgian Grand Prix leaving him 44 points adrift of his teammate in the drivers’ championship.