Hamilton aims to end Rosberg’s Monaco dominance

World champion Lewis Hamilton has said that he is very motivated to end his Monaco hoodoo this weekend.

The 30-year-old has won just once around the famous track- back in 2008- and has been beaten on the last two occasions by his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg.

Rosberg excels around the streets where he grew up, and is favourite to make it a hat-trick of victories after his win in Spain last time out.

Hamilton told Sky Sports: “I’ve not won that race for a long, long time – I’ve only won it once – so this is going to be my third chance with this great team and with a great car. So hopefully third time lucky.”

Last year, Monaco was the beginning of a bitter rivalry between Hamilton and Rosberg after the German appeared to deliberately make a mistake in qualifying in order to prevent the Englishman from doing a lap.

Reflecting on that, Hamilton said: “To be honest, I don’t really remember too much about it. But naturally back then there were a couple of incidents through the year which were difficult.

“But you take the rough with the smooth and I think I bounced back from them pretty well.”

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