Nico Rosberg has always had racing around him. His father, Keke, was the 1982 Formula One World Champion who later founded Team Rosberg, an organization that saw the Rosberg name race in touring cars and single seaters across Europe. Now, decades later, Nico has almost replicated his father’s successes with his own F1 World Championship in 2016 and a race team—but he’s set on doing things his way.
Rosberg X Racing is an evolution of Team Rosberg, but focuses on electric motorsport and more specifically the Extreme E series. Finding success in the off-road championship that races in the most remote parts of the world, Rosberg X Racing won the inaugural Teams’ Championship in 2021, and came a close second last season. Next month in Chile, the team will try again to achieve the championship crown during the highly-anticipated Copper X-Prix.
Ahead of the season finale, both for Extreme E and F1 in Abu Dhabi, Rosberg sat down with Sports Illustrated to talk about his shocking F1 retirement, managing his own racing team and the crazy opportunities he was offered when he hung up the helmet.
