Nico Rosberg

Then I couldn't accelerate properly anymore because the foot was bouncing.

And so then it obviously is a mental spiral because then your head says, okay, my foot is bouncing so much that I can't drive anymore.

So then the foot just bounces double as much.

so and just luckily I got through this sequence of corners with a bouncing foot Verstappen still staying behind me somehow and then I got to the straight the next part was a straight and so I could push the whole leg through so normally you accelerate with your foot and here I used my whole leg to push it through into the throttle pedal and somehow it then did full throttle so I was driving down like a reset moment driving down the straight like that

And that was enough that by the time I got to the next corner, my foot slightly calmed again, which then your head says, okay, maybe it's not as bad as it looked.

And so I just managed to somehow get my foot into a state where I could drive the car again.

So that was my worst ever.

I'm going to lose this again like I always did in my career.

That was my mind telling me that.

Can it be possible that I lose this?

Because most of the time against Lewis, I always finished second in F1 in the three years before that.

I finished one spot behind him or whatever.

And then second in the championship.

And against him, it was the same in go-karting.

I finished second, he finished first.

So my mind was telling me, no, this is not possible.

I'm going to lose this again.

And that's horrible.

I had a psychologist I was working with and all the work I did, but it's hard to completely transform your instinctive thoughts.

And in that moment, in the heat of the moment, my brain was telling me, no way, I'm losing this again.