尼科罗sberg banned from McLaren garage over perceived curse

Michelle Foster
McLaren ban Nico Rosberg selfies. Belgium July 2023

McLaren ban Nico Rosberg taking selfies near their garage. Belgium July 2023

尼科罗sberg found himself banned from the McLaren garage at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, the team making it clear he wasn’t allowed in to take a selfie.

It was, it must be said, all done in jest in light of the perceived ‘Nico Rosberg curse’.

Posting a selfie on social media of himself standing outside the Red Bull garage of Max Verstappen ahead of qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix, the Dutchman went on to lose pole position to Lewis Hamilton by 0.003s.

The ‘jinxing powers’ of Nico Rosberg

The following day Rosberg posted a selfie of himself outside Hamilton’s garage, and the Briton fell from first to fourth in the grand prix.

Proclaimed to be ‘The Nico Rosberg curse’ by Formula 1 fans, McLaren made it clear at Spa he wasn’t allowed to take photographs near their garage.

“We’ve seen your jinxing powers,” the team said on social media.

Rosberg replied: “Haha… heading to your factory for a selfie.”

The 2016 World Champion was asked on Sky’s post-Hungarian Grand Prix podcast about the ‘Nico Rosberg F1 curse’ that’s been going around on Twitter, he replied: “Yeah, that’s not cool. That’s not cool at all.

“I post on race weekends, I just post a picture in the pit lane with a car or something, and that car has then gone pretty poorly.

“So, I need to be careful with that in the future.

“这里的背景故事是周六我张贴Max’s car, and of course he lost the qualifying. And then on Sunday I was like, ‘Go Mercedes’, and I posted Lewis’ car and that went completely wrong. So that’s the back story behind this.”

Good news for McLaren and all the teams is Rosberg accepted he needs to hit the “pause button”, adding that he is “not doing that anymore.”

Despite no photos near the McLaren garage, the Woking team had their worst qualifying in three races withOscar Piastri P5 and Lando Norris set to start P7. They had been in the top-two rows in Britain and Hungary.

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