Nico Rosberg drives the Volkswagen ID R at the Nürburgring

We know that Nico Rosberg is eager to get into a racing car as little as he can. And the one who was Formula 1 champion in 2016, emulating his father, Keke, and who retired without giving the chance to defend his crown the same year he won this title, has since then dedicated his work to two channels, one on YouTube and the other, which is based on being a spokesperson for sustainable mobility.

Something less radical than the new facet of the also champion, pluri, in the case of Lewis Hamilton, that has decided to get rid of his collection of cars with combustion engines, the Monegasque of residence and German and Finnish nationality by descent now enjoys both the highest performance sports cars of the new era of the automotive industry along with others, which although they may not be as sustainable as we can discuss at DrivingECO, it does also welcome those of moderate sustainability as is the case of the Mercedes AMG One of which we learned details not published by the brand thanks to the leak that Nico Rosberg himself made.

Be that as it may, in recent months The former professional driver is still at the controls of brand new vehicles, both pre-production and prototypes since, in addition to having attested to the capabilities that have made opted to buy one of the Rimac C_Two manufacturing plants that are already in their near assembly phase, good old Nico has taken the wheel of an unrivalled electric racing machine such as the Volkswagen ID R.

It was bound to happen: Nico Rosberg drives the Volkswagen ID R at the Nürburgring

And the trio couldn't be better: Rosberg-ID R-Nürburgring.

Relegating the already regular driver of the Volkswagen ID R itself, the versatile and award-winning Romain Dumas, who holds the record on the Nordschleife trackNico Rosberg has had the privilege of racing on none other than the circuit par excellence, the mecca of lap times and the gym for fine-tuning the brands and the challenge for any driver who is not afraid to face the more than 20 km of constant challenges that make up the route described and known as the Green Hell.

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Dressed in his work clothes, Nico Rosberg has driven, but not driven, the 'short' track corresponding to the one that hosts the Formula 1 Grand Prix, a decision that may motivate the most realistic comparison between A hybrid F1 car versus an electric racing prototype rolling on the same asphalt, transmitting and behaving in a very different way, as the driver himself has shown in his latest video.