MOSCOW: If you know even a bit about car racing, you must be well aware of prince of speed, Lewis Hamilton, well this story, if not a laughter aloud, will at least bring a wide smile on your face.
Overly enthusiastic Lewis Hamilton sprayed Vladimir Putin with champagne after #F1 victory. http://t.co/gLTJQZja6q pic.twitter.com/CJZy6vGMb1
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) October 12, 2015
It wasn’t so much the high-speed Formula One action on the Sochi Autodrome that lit up social media, but images which appeared to show winning driver Lewis Hamilton spraying Russia’s president with champagne.
Closer inspection revealed that the enthusiastic Hamilton merely caught the back of Putin’s jacket with bubbly as the race benefactor left the stage, but that didn’t stop the 63-year-old’s reputation as a tough leader becoming the butt of a number of online jokes. “Living dangerously,” tweeted one Twitter user.
It wasn’t the first time this year that Hamilton’s podium antics have caused an uproar — the Mercedes star had to apologize after spraying a Chinese woman in the face with champagne after winning April’s race in Shanghai.
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