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Alain Prost has again tipped Nico Rosberg to be Formula One world champion.
The German currently holds a 33-point lead in the championship with just four rounds remaining, and Prost thinks that is going to be the key factor as the title battle winds down.
"A 33 point lead starts to be important," the quadruple world champion told French broadcaster Canal Plus. "It's much better to have that lead with four races to go than the four wins he had at the start of the season."
"He will have to manage this lead now, and get into a psychological state that is not always easy," Prost added.
"It's never easy to manage such a big lead, especially against Lewis Hamilton, who thinks the whole world is against him now," he said. "But it could still turn," the great Frenchman warned. "One retirement and Lewis is right back in the race."
Rosberg has won nine races so far in 2016. No driver has ever won that many races and failed to win the title.
"How can you not be champion if you've won nine races? That is the question Nico Rosberg hopes he does not have to answer at the end of the season," said France's L'Equipe. "But the German is doing everything he has to for his first world title."
And Rosberg has refuted claims that he is only on target to winb his first championship because Hamilton is struggling to deal with the pressure.
"It was a long time since I saw Lewis as focused and motivated actually," he insisted, according to Marca.
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