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Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg: Who will win F1 championship
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Formula 1 is about to enter one http://www.officialfootballpanthers.com/BENE-BENWIKERE-JERSEY-CHEAP.html of the most eagerly awaited title-deciding run-ins in the history of the sport.
Just 11 points separate Mercedes team-mates Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg at the top of the drivers' championship and, with eight races remaining, it is a battle that could well go down to the wire.
Who will come out on top? Ahead of this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix, which is live across BBC TV, radio and online, BBC Sport asks 1992 F1 world champion Nigel Mansell and 1979 champion Jody Scheckter who they tip for the title and why.
Lewis Hamilton's daring, heart-on-the-sleeve driving style has helped him to five victories this season and seen him on the podium in nine of the 11 races this season. Nico Rosberg, meanwhile, is often regarded as the more methodical and technically astute driver which has helped him produce a level of consistency on the track this season to keep him at the top of the championship.
Mansell, the winner of 31 grands prix when he raced in F1 between 1980 and 1995, says Hamilton's style is similar to his own.
"Lewis is the out-and-out racer for me. He's very exciting to watch. We know anything can happen with him so he reminds me of me a little bit.
"I witnessed his win at Silverstone and that was superb. His drive in Hungary was fantastic considering what the elements threw at him with the weather, the changes in conditions, the safety car and the accidents.
"I know Nico didn't get the rub of the green with the safety car as his good lead was negated, but I honestly thought he might have gone a bit quicker. For Lewis to pull off the drive that he did and come third was excellent.
"I don't think there is any question that Lewis has got the edge."
Scheckter, who won 10 races in his eight years in Formula 1, agrees that Hamilton is out-and-out the more skilful driver, but feels his tendency to make mistakes could prove his undoing.
"In out-and-out racing skills, Lewis is better," he said. "He is the better driver in a dogfight, but not always faster.
"In the first years of Lewis' Formula 1 career, I rated him as the best I had ever seen in a dogfight - by that I mean very close quarters battling.
"However, then he went through stages where he was making mistakes. At one point he was making really stupid mistakes and I don't know what was happening, I think his head was somewhere else.
"Nico is more methodical and looks to Colt McCoy Kids Jersey be better at closing all the outside influences out. He is just getting on with the job. For me, Lewis needs to cut out mistakes if he wants to win the championship."
While Mansell believes Lewis has the lion's share of the talent, he feels the 29-year-old's main weakness is a propensity for allowing emotion to cloud his mood and affect his judgement.
"His Achilles' heel is when things go wrong a little bit, he doesn't handle it as coolly as perhaps other drivers do. That's not saying we don't like how he handles it because he has to be himself.
"It's just that he puts himself under more pressure than he needs to. When you're fighting for a world championship, you want to keep all that energy to yourself."
For Scheckter, Rosberg reminds him of himself when he claimed the 1979 championship, with Hamilton displaying similar characteristics to his Ferrari team-mate Gilles Villeneuve.
"I'd say I was more like Rosberg, http://www.officialnflraidersjerseys.com/BO-JACKSON-JERSEY-CHEAP.html while Gilles liked what the papers were saying more.
"I think Lewis gets tied up with all sorts of other things away from racing in his mind, rather than keeping his head down.
"Rosberg looks to be better at closing all the outside influences out and I think Lewis focuses too much on trying to beat his team-mate."
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