Lewis Hamilton & Nico Rosberg 'could be buddies for three years'

Equation 1 title rivals Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg could remain Mercedes buddies for the following three seasons, ex-best on the planet Alain Prost says. 

The pair have crashed all through the season, with Rosberg impacting Hamilton at the Belgian Grand Prix. 

Mclaren supervisor Ron Dennis anticipated that the strains could result in one driver to leave the group. 

"I don't think it can keep going for five or six years yet it would be no issue for a few," Prost said. 

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Lewis Hamilton heads Nico Rosberg in Italy 

Lewis Hamilton battles again to win in Italy 

Previous Red Bull driver Mark Webber additionally addressed whether Hamilton and Rosberg can remain fellow team members at Mercedes. 

In any case Frenchman Prost, who broadly had a severe contention with Brazilian Ayrton Senna when the pair were partners in the 1980s, accepts the Silver Arrows "can keep things together for quite a while". 

He told BBC Radio 5 live: "It is the work of the group. You can never demonstrate one driver he could have a mechanical or mental focal point. 

"In the event that you can keep this circumstance going you can keep things together for quite a while." 

Prost accepts the episode in Belgium, for which Rosberg later issued an open expression of remorse, was extinguished of extent. 

Alain Prost (right) and Ayrton Senna 

Prost (right) and Ayrton Senna had a broadly burnable relationship when they were buddies at Mclaren 

"It was a little episode, a little oversight from Nico," he said. "It's absolutely impossible he could have done it intentionally, however its unavoidable that everyone inside and outside the group, they go overboard." 

Rosberg skilled Hamilton triumph at Sunday's Italian Grand Prix in the wake of running wide at Monza's first chicane, and Prost accepts a wary methodology could result in the drivers to make more blunders. 

"I am certain they are going to be careful to the point that perhaps they can do considerably more oversights," the four-time title holder said. 

"We have two remarkable drivers battling for the title - I trust they could be free until the end of the year."