F1: Hamilton and Rosberg Head Star and Cars Event

If you’re talking F1 stars then it’s safe to say you’re talking about Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg who recently headlined an event in Germany.

If it wasn’t enough that the AMG Mercedes team dominated for the last two seasons in formula one, the defending two time champions decided to party in front of 36, 121 fans in Stuttgart, Germany last Friday night, as the annual Stars and Cars event took place with many drivers of past and present, as well as great entertainment making the event more than worth their money.

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It even surprised the chairman of the board of Mercedes, Dieter Zetsche, who replied to the crowd: “This is an awesome atmosphere here. It is unbelievable that we won six series with six teams. So we showed that the fastest teams are racing for us, and the fastest teams do have a star!!”

The pop band Culcha Candela gave the crowd some fantastic music along with the driving, which included many Mercedes models past and present, around the small track that was built in the stadium. It reminded many of the recent Race of Champions track but with much more entertainment.

Recent retired Williams’s tester Susie Wolff, drove an old 1955 Mercedes racer, along with someone who experienced it for himself some 60 years before: Sir Sterling Moss.

Susie’s husband, Toto Wolff, along with his chairman of the AMG Mercedes team, three time world champion Niki Lauda, took some laps in certain Mercedes vehicles and the Austrian was actually having fun.

“To get everyone together on one playing field, and show how they are against one another is sensational.” Lauda explained to the Mercedes interviewer.

Wolff liked it as well, as it something that made all the work all well worth it.

“It is great racing, great music and it does not get any better,” He said.

Meet the driver’s event was another the fans loved, as they could get close to their favorite pilots. But then it was time for the main event: The Stars and Cars Competition.

Along with some of the current drivers as Current World Champion Lewis Hamilton, his teammate Nico Rosberg and DTM drivers Pascal Wierlein and Daniel Juncadella, veterans and retired drivers such as Jean Alesi, David Coulthard, and Mika Hakkinen, the 1998 and 1999 world champion, were participating in the event.

Perhaps getting more mobbed by the press than any other driver was 16 year old Mick Schumacher, the son of the seven time world champion Michael, who is still recovering from a skiing accident. The younger Schumacher was eliminated in the first round by Rosberg.

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Hamilton also went further but lost to Wierlein in the Semis. Rosberg lost to Juncadella before the Spaniard beat Weirlein to take the championship. Hamilton took the consolation prize over Rosberg with a better time than his German rival.

It was the first time that the event was held in the city’s soccer stadium. But despite the local team is struggling, the home of the Silver Arrows certainly has something to celebrate.