Nico Rosberg poses as journalist to open spat with Lewis Hamilton

• Rosberg: ‘They say Nico blocked you, is that true?’

• Hamilton to Rosberg: “I think you should ask him’

• Lewis Hamilton storms to Malaysian GP pole

Lewis Hamilton’s sometimes tense relationship with his Mercedes team-mate, Nico Rosberg, took a bizarre and slightly farcical turn on Saturday when the German driver posed as a journalist during the post-qualifying press conference at the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Hamilton had landed a 40th pole position of his career in Kuala Lumpur despite suggestions that Rosberg had deliberately blocked him on his final run of the rain-affected session. Rosberg had already abandoned his lap, but did not move aside as Hamilton came past, forcing him off the racing line. It turned out not to matter as Hamilton had already done enough for pole on a previous lap.

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