<P> Rosberg won the 2005 GP2 Series for the ART team, having raced in Formula 3 Euro Series previously for his father's racing organisation Team Rosberg . He entered Formula One in 2006 with Williams, the team with which his father had won the 1982 championship . After four years with Williams, in 2010 he joined the re-branded Mercedes team, formed by Mercedes's takeover of 2009 Constructors' Champion Brawn GP . He enjoyed his most successful period with Mercedes, winning 23 Grands Prix and earning 30 pole positions . In a period of Mercedes dominance, he had a fierce rivalry with his teammate Lewis Hamilton, finishing second in the World Championship in 2014 and 2015, behind Hamilton . </P> <P> In 2016, he finally became Formula One World Champion after an intense duel with teammate Hamilton, which was undecided until the final race, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix . He announced his retirement from the sport five days later, on 2 December 2016 . </P> <P> Before the 2017 Formula One season, Rosberg announced that he would continue his partnership with Mercedes, as an ambassador . </P> <P> Rosberg was born in Wiesbaden, Hesse, West Germany, the son of Finnish 1982 Formula One world champion Keke Rosberg and his German wife Sina . Rosberg was born only four days after his father won the 1985 Detroit Grand Prix, driving a Williams - Honda . Rosberg, who spent much of his youth in Monaco with his family, still lives in the principality and, apart from his native German, speaks several languages fluently: English, French, Italian and (a little less fluently) Spanish . His father deliberately chose not to teach him Finnish, concentrating on those other languages which would be more important for Nico's life and racing career . </P>

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