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Can you elaborate on this please, I feel like it's such a crazy take but also maybe correct?

okay so, i remember reading an interview keke gave after nico won the championship (maybe even the "my championship doesn't matter anymore, only nico's does" interview) and in it keke said that he was always trying to support nico and let him know that he believed in him. and so he texted nico "push" to let him know that.

and it was like an epiphany for me. because i'd read that exact story before from nico's perspective and it was so different. it was like nico thought of the message as criticism, that he wasn't doing enough to win the championship, that he needed to do more or work harder.

then i thought of the interview nico did before his second ever race, where the interviewer told him that keke said his first race (where he scored points and set the fastest lap) was "not bad for a kid" and nico's face falls. he was so crushed because he automatically assumed that his dad meant it negatively, and the journalist had to tell him that it was meant as a joke/playfully.

nico and keke also did an interview in 2018 after they did demonstration runs at monaco in their championship winning cars (still the only father and son pairing ever to both win monaco), and they were asked which of them was better. nico's immediate response was "i don't want to compare us/i don't want to think of it like that". keke's response, which i personally think is more accurate was "you can't compare them because the cars and eras were so different". his response was about formula 1, nico's was about them as father and son.

there are other stories where keke supposedly criticised nico's first podium in australia 2008, thinking that he could have got 2nd not 3rd, but now i'm wondering if it was actual criticism or something that he thought of as praise and nico took badly because, as he's said before, his mind tends to go to the negative before the positive. there's also the fact that talk about f1 was banned in the rosberg house (at least between nico, keke, and sina) for basically all of nico's career, so it does seem like it was something of a sensitive topic in their household.

nico's said several times that he really struggled with the pressure of being in f1 throughout his career, that he didn't believe in himself at all, and that the comparisons to his father were really really difficult for him. so maybe it's not so much that he didn't realise how much keke loved him, maybe it's more that he was automatically negative about himself and therefore projected that negativity onto keke's reactions.

because when you look at keke, i think he really is proud. he is the only world champion who has ever seen his son become a world champion. he has an experience that no one else has, and i think he recognises that, but even if nico weren't a world champion, i think he would still be proud

thinking about the rosberg family and how a kardashian or dts style documentary about them would be amazing.

you have keke rosberg, a hard racing cigar smoking legend of motorsport from one of it's most dangerous eras, whose name literally means pixie rose mountain. the man who basically invented formula one in finland but was hated by his own media for being too cosmopolitan and when they tried to recognise his achievements refused to let them put his face on a postage stamp because he wouldn't make money off of it. studied to be a dentist but missed the entrance exam and became a racing driver instead. got out of having to take german in school by persuading the master that he would never need it but as soon as he met a hot older german woman went so insane over her that he proposed just months after meeting her and agreed to make it their primary language at home. set a record for the fastest lap in f1 history that lasted until 2004, won his first f1 race and then won a world championship before he won his second. known as a crazy racer who would go through you if you didn't let him past. also the softest dad who loves his baby boy more than anything else.

then there's sina, the coolest person in the rosberg family. was so hot and smart and talented that a man willingly sacrificed his cultural identity to be her husband. professional interpreter who knows a bunch of languages and taught them to her polyglot son. married a f1 world champion but hated his driving so much that she drove herself everywhere, even to events that she attended with him. showed up finland's independence day ball in a suit and bow tie against all dress customs. planned to give birth on her own because it's basically the same thing as going to the dentist, and she doesn't need a man for that. has an f1 champion husband and son and still banned f1 talk in her house for nico's entire career. got so nervous watching her baby race that she vacuumed the entire apartment each time. ditched her husband in dubai so that she could make it to the track to see nico become world champion in person. got drunk and talked about keke's sperm on live television.

nico rosberg, the saddest wettest kitten who ever lived. the most beloved baby in the world. cried at everything as a child. cried when he lost at tennis and when he won. uber competitive. incredibly athletic, competing internationally in karting and tennis. total nerd who had no trouble with his schoolwork despite missing school constantly and got accepted into imperial college london to study engineering. at the time the youngest person to ever drive an f1 car. the biggest single cause of sexuality crises in motorsport since 2006. was once sponsored by the german version of mtv. nicknamed after a teen pop sensation. met the love of his life when he was four and hit her over the head with a bucket while they were making sandcastles. had an incredibly difficult incredibly public divorce from a man he was never legally married to. dropped the mic said thank u, next and is so so happy in his retirement. has stripped down to his underwear on television and done a river clean up in designer coats. boy mom to an orange cat, girl dad to human children. loves his daughters more than anything, the kind of man who will leave a 2 million dollar car on a hill to hitchhike, with his videographer, to his daughters's christmas party. can pinpoint the amount of time lost in a corner exactly and needs everyone to know about it. deeply annoying, absolutely hilarious, incredibly kind.

and of course, vivian. ceo of the rosberg family. still planning the long game revenge on nico for hitting her with a bucket when they were children, born in germany, studied design in milan, can party harder than f1 drivers. has done the interior design for private jets, because apparently that's a thing. owner, creator and namesake of the best rated ice cream shop in the balearics. makes her daughters matching outfits for a taylor swift concert and publicly teases her husband for not being a fan. stages elaborate christmas photos with a different colour theme every year. wore a white dress with turquoise louboutins and chanel bag to match nico's race suit in one of the most iconic and yet deeply underappreciated wag moments in f1 history. ruined them with champagne but didn't care. wants her children to be happy. definitely pegs her husband.

most interesting motorsport family of all time. forget dts, i just want to know about them

classic f1 drivers as vines, inspired by @k-ky