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#4 Nico Rosberg
The only man other than this lists top 2 to have won a driver's world championship this decade, Nico Rosberg had to wait a long time to get into a top car but was a very solid performer once he had done so.
Rosberg spent 2010-16 at the same team, Mercedes, an outfit that wasn't a force to be reckoned with until the 2014 regulation changes. Rosberg had Michael Schumacher as a teammate to compete against for most of this time and although the legend wasn't at his best, he was still a formidable opponent.
Once Lewis Hamilton joined the team in 2013, we now knew Rosberg was a great driver, even by F1's standards. Nico battled with Hamilton for the 2014 and '15 titles but the Brit proved to be too much for the German in both of those years, but 2016 was a reversal in fortunes. Rosberg came out on top after a titanic and controversial season-long battle and subsequently retired from the sport.
Cynics claimed that this was a cowardly move, not giving Hamilton the chance to retake his crown back from Rosberg, but Nico had his young family to think about and he had achieved his ambitions to match his father Keke. Despite retiring at the end of the 2016 season, Rosberg is one of the most successful drivers of the 2010s.
