Rosberg: Vettel is cracking under pressure once again

Nico Rosberg believes that Sebastian Vettel is cracking under the intense pressure in the 2019 drivers' championship fight.

The German made a huge mistake going wheel-to-wheel with Lewis Hamilton for second place during the Bahrain Grand Prix, spinning and dropping down the order having apparently got on the throttle too much out of turn four.

Speaking to Sky Sports F1, 2016 world champion Rosberg said he thinks Vettel is cracking under the pressure teammate Charles Leclerc and 2018 rival Hamilton are placing him under.

"I can't believe that we've seen exactly the same Sebastian Vettel today as we've seen throughout the past year," he explained.

"First of all the team messes up the strategy and he gets angry, then come the race day, one wheel-to-wheel battle and he spins it away completely on his own and loses the full weekend. He needs to find a way out of that now.

"Not only did he ruin his own race, but he has a team-mate who been delivering unbelievably well all weekend and was so damn strong, and we should all expect it to continue like that. So Sebastian still has a battle on his hands."