The Formula 1 press team seems to have taken responsibility for issuing meme materials after every GP. The Italian GP 2021 ended with Valtteri Bottas, who finished third on the podium behind Ricciardo and Norris. During the award ceremony after the race, David Coulthard Bottas showed the footage of what turned out to be the biggest talking point of the weekend.
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We are of course talking about the crash between title contenders Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. And well, Bottas’ reaction was the most perfect meme material F1 Twitter could expect.
Mercedes F1 team hugs the memes of Valtteri Bottas
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The Mercedes F1 team quickly took the opportunity to have a good laugh. They posted a picture on Twitter of Bottas’ reaction, and the screen behind him was replaced with a green screen.
They urged fans to come up with creative interpretations of what Bottas could alternatively have responded to. And the fans didn’t disappoint!
Memes ranged from Toto Wolff’s reaction to Bottas, who overtook Perez and was overtaken again in the next corner, to Bottas, who defied team orders to drive the faster lap at Zandvoort.
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One of the memes that clearly stood out was an indication of when the F1 media team in Monaco had big problems. They cut the camera off from the only wheel-to-wheel fight at the Monaco GP to show random footage of Lance Stroll.
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Fans got even more creative as they tried to reference old memes in the new template.
This is a reference to an earlier press conference where a journalist asked the drivers an insane long question that the drivers had no answer to. Because nobody could concentrate long enough to listen to the end.
There were tons of other funny memes too, such as:
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However, our personal favorite was a meme that we could identify with on a spiritual level.
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