the three-time world champion is colourful , candid and carefree that when your face is the charred remains of having nearly burned to death at the wheel of a ferrari , why not throw caution to the wind or , in shanghai 's case , the smog ? lauda , now chairman of mercedes f1 , aimed his first verbal grenade at his driver nico rosberg ahead of the race in shanghai .
rosberg ended that session , as he did the first , behind lewis hamilton -lrb- below -rrb- , his in-the-groove world champion team-mate who also markedly outperformed the german in the first two races , in australia and malaysia .