Nico Rosberg has revealed he had to pay out £360,000 in accident damage after a crash with then Mercedes F1 teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton.

Rosberg and Hamilton had several flashpoints during a fier💦ce title rivalry as teammates at the dominant Mercedes between 2014 and 2016, but their biggest drama occurred at the start of the 2016 Span꧅ish Grand Prix.

The pair collided with each other while squabbling for the lead heading into Turn 4, wiping both Mercedes cars out of the race, and subsequently opening the door for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen to𓄧 claim an incr🐓edible victory on his Red Bull debut.

According to Rosberg, he and Hamilton were contractually obliged to foot the rep𒈔air bill for any crash caused between them.

“Because Lewis and I crashed, eventually the team made us pay for the ꦅdamage,” Rosberg, who beat Hamilton to the 2016 world title, said on the .

“We had to sign a contract that from now on, if we crashꦕ, no matter whose fault it is, we will pay for the damage. I re🎃member how much I had to pay, it was £360,000 that I paid for one of those crashes. That was very painful.

“We defin🅘itely made sure not to crash after that.”

It was not the first time Rosberg wa🐟s forced to part with his own money to pay for accident damage.

The German recalled how one of his paych♏ecks during his time as a Williams test driver was used to pay for repairs after a GP2 crash in 2005.

“As soon as the £80,000 hit my account, it went straight back out because my dad ha⛎d taken out a loan to pay for𒁏 my accident damage in Formula 2 at the time,” he explained. 

“I crashed my car,ဣ and my front wing and the front end was destr𝔉oyed – and it cost £80,000.

“The goal was for him not to fund my racing. We really tried to fund it all through sponsors. But it didn’t inclu♉de the big crash. So I had ✃to take out a bank loan for the big crash.

“So the first salary went first to cover that.”