Formula One is heading back to Imola this weekend to host the fourth race of the 2022 season. The track has produced some of the best moments in the past 2 seasons when F1 raced there. However, nothing that we have seen in Imola was more surprising than Lewis Hamilton drinking champagne out of Daniel Ricciardo’s shoes on the 2020 podium.

Both Hamilton and Ricciardo were on the podium with Bottas in Imola 2020. But in a surprising moment, while the Aussie driver was doing his iconic celebration, the Mercedes driver joined in.

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Lewis did the shoey, to everyone’s delight, but was left horrified by the experience. Before heading to Imola this season, the 7-time world champ took to his Instagram Stories to share his thoughts on the experience. ” Still haunts me @danielricciardo,” wrote Lewis.

Lewis Hamilton took Daniel Ricciardo by surprise with his shoey request

Ricciardo has made the shoey celebration iconic and does it every time he is on the podium. He has even managed to involve the other podium attendees to have a sip of champagne from his shoes. But Lewis had vehemently refused to take part in the celebration with Daniel.

So Hamilton’s request of doing a shoey caught the then-Renault driver by surprise. “I think they’ll be dancing (in the streets across Australia) because I didn’t forget the shoey,” said Daniel.

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“You know what, on that, I was about to drink a beautiful fresh one, and I heard Lewis say, ‘Take your other shoe off’. And I was like, ‘No’ because three years ago on the podium, he said, ‘I’ll never ever drink it, you can offer me, you can force me, I’ll never do it.”

“And he even asked for it today. Took me by surprise, but 2020 is the year of the strange, so it was good fun, very happy,” said Ricciardo.

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It was indeed strange to see Hamilton doing such an expressive thing on the podium. Hopefully, we can see both drivers on a podium once again very soon in the sport so that we can see Part 2 of the celebration.