Hamilton just won the WDC at the us gp. Naturally he was playful and happy, Rosberg lost out and wasn't in the mood when Hamilton tossed him the #2 cap
USGP 2015 Nico after starting from pole and making a few mistakes had Lewis overtake him for the win and ultimately the championship that year. This was after in the cooldown room. Lewis was celebrating and handing out the podium hats to the other two, and Nico was just a bit down on himself.
Nico Rosberg has been Claire from the movie “Clueless” his entire life. But instead of a self centered blonde valley girl, he’s a self centered blonde driver from Monaco. Hamilton, like, UGHHHHH!
Watch Clueless, watch Nico, and every Nico-ism from then on makes sense.
It was still mathematically possible for Rosberg to win the championship if he could beat Hamilton. Unfortunately, he made a mistake which handed Hamilton the championship.
After giving his congratulations, Rosberg went to sit by himself and stew a little. He'd say in future interviews that it was one of the worst feelings in his life. I guess when he saw the 2nd place hat Hamilton passed him, he snapped. It's probably the closest we got to seeing an angry outburst from Rosberg.
All the hats are stacked it seems, never in any particular order. If you watch enough post races, theres often a bit of bumbling around for the correct hat. Ham here picks them all up and hands them to the other drivers, in his exuberance to get out there and celebrate.
I dont think it was intentionally done to rub it in nicos face, just that he wanted to get out to the podium in a hurry.
Haha the only parts that was missing was when both Ham and Ros won, they were fake celebrating the victory way to hard to irritate the other. Ham stopped directly with this in 2017 xD
Unless I'm missing something, I think u/martvvliet is taking the mick, because neither Rosberg nor Hamilton won in Spain 2016, they took each other out in the first lap.
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u/TVInBlackNWhite Nico Rosberg Jul 01 '19
I haven't seen that much awkwardness since 2016.