Rosberg: The battle is on with Lewis but I am not countinng points

Nico Rosberg has seen his 43 points F1 world championship lead rapidly whittled down to a mere point by his Mercedes team mate and main title rival Lewis Hamilton, but the German is not fazed by the turnaround of fortunes.

With the battle for the coveted world championship wide open, albeit the Mercedes duo the only real contenders, Rosberg is not allowing the situation to get to him.

He explained to ESPN, "Well it's very easy, I can make the choice of taking the glass half-empty view on it, or of taking the glass half-full view of it which has been a very good first half of the season and leading the championship. It's been a pretty damn good start to the season which I'm pleased about."

"I've had some good races, I had a good race in Austria which went wrong, yeah it can happen and then a good run out there in the dry at Silverstone - not so much in the beginning of the race - but there's a lot of positives."

"Anyway, I'm feeling great and the battle is on with Lewis, but I'm not counting points because it's still such a long way to go and I don't like to do that."

Hamilton turned it on at his home grand prix at Silverstone, winning the race comfortably while Rosberg could simply not match the Briton during the course of the weekend.

Adding to his woes was his well documented demotion from second place to third after the race, for receiving 'coaching' from his engineer when things went awry for him late in the race.

But again Rosberg sees the positives from the weekend, "In the race nothing was lacking I was really feeling great. I have the fastest lap of the race by some margin as well, I was feeling great.

"What was lacking was that Red Bull that was in front of me for a few laps and then I lost a bit in the wet phase in the first part of the race, that's it. And qualifying he just did a good job," admitted Rosberg.