After going through a race where 15 of his fellow drivers disintegrated on Sunday, Nico Rosberg watched intently as local lad Justin Kwan, 18, beat him at his own game - albeit a virtual version.

Above: Rosberg gets ready

Rosberg finished in third place at last weekend's Formula One season opener in Melbourne, but could only manage 1:12:936 minutes in the Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) high-tech race simulator.

This is the second year that RBS has held the challenge to find Singapore's fastest, virtual race driver.

Kwan led the Singapore charge with a speedy 1:11:785, followed by last year's winner, Alvin Koh, who made crucial errors to finish with 1:13:43. Third and fourth place went to Alvin Ng (1:13:188) and Pandu Nuhuswantoro (1:19:084) respectively.

For his efforts, Kwan received grandstand tickets to the inaugural SingTel Singapore Grand Prix worth more than $2,000.

But the son of 1982 F1 world champion Keke Rosberg need not worry about his day job, as Kwan is waiting to be enlisted into National Service.

5-tonners, anyone?

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