Working yourself into a lather about a rookie seems to be all the rage in Formula 1 at the moment, as the sport struggles to find bigger and better superlatives to describe the job that Lewis Hamilton is doing.
Yet turn the clock back to the last Bahrain Grand Prix, and you would find almost exactly the same feeding frenzy surrounding another rookie - Nico Rosberg. The young German with a very fast surname had been the star of the first race of the 2006 season, with some brilliant overtaking moves, a points-scoring finish and, best of all, the fastest lap.
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