My Rosberg Thoughts After Spa

31 August

I’ve been holding my thoughts about the Nico Rosberg versus Lewis Hamilton saga for a week now but before the race weekend in Monza starts, here are my ideas. Also, I haven’t written an F1-related blog since like forever so, sorry for a splurge of thoughts right here.

To those of you who don't know, I am a Fernando Alonso fan, so that kind of makes me unbiased with regards to the two Mercedes drivers.

What I thought of Nico Rosberg before as Schumacher's teammate:

I thought that Nico was not really that good because even if MSC was old and kind of rusty, he still beat the younger Mercedes protege.

What I thought of Nico before the start of this 2014 season:

He's not just a son of a former champ but is quite quick as well. He was not far off of Lewis in terms of performance and I am little by little liking him as a driver.

What I thought of Nico before Spa:

A real challenge for Lewis and deserves the world title because of his consistency even if lady luck was always in his side of the garage. He's made less mistakes than Lewis.

What I want to speak of Rosberg now after Spa:

My immediate thoughts after the contact was that he was rude and very aggressive. He did not have the room to overtake and did it anyway and because of that, Lewis and the whole team was compromised.

After the race, and especially the podium interviews, my view of Nico Rosberg had a big turnaround. The very classy guy has become a very unsportsmanlike villain of F1.

First thing I thought was that he should have immediately apologized for causing a preventable collision during the post race interviews. And then after reading all the F1 sites, I also found out that in fact, Nico was still really angry about Lewis' actions during the Hungarian GP.

Remember that  during the race in Budapest, Lewis was given an order to let Rosberg through in the race. Hamilton ignored the order but said that if Nico were to get close enough, he will let him through. Fact is, Nico never really challenged for the position and Lewis slowing down for his teammate would have consequences on his own race programme.

So anyway, a week after all the denial to speak about the incident, Nico finally apologized in Facebook, twitter, et cetera. 

For me, it was a forced apology because I believe that he was shaken by the boos and all the negativity of F1 fans such as me showed towards him.

So anyway, I really did not like what he did. I mean, keeping shut and then apologizing a week after isn't really appealing. He should have said sorry or kept shut. He is trying to win back the F1 community by apologizing but really it doesn't change the fact that he previously lied to us fans.

I don't know what's gonna happen in Monza but I hope to see light whether Rosberg has been forgiven by fans already.