Nico Rosberg has expressed😼 his displeasure with title-winning team-mate Lewis Hamilton making contact with him at th☂e start of the United States Grand Prix, labelling it as 'extremely aggressive'.

On the day that saw Rosberg throw away any hope of keeping his a🌜lready slim titlﷺe hopes alive by running off whilst leading with eight laps remaining, the German would be forced to watch as Hamilton came by to seal back-to-back titles for Mercedes.

However, it was contact with Hamilton at the first corner that would l🥃eave Rosberg fuming, the Briton coming up the inside and sliding wi🌃de in the slippery conditions, forcing the German off the track and down to fourth place.

Brandiꦡng the move as 'extreme💧ly aggressive', tensions appeared to rise further in the cool down room before the podium when Hamilton threw a cap Rosberg's way, who responded by throwing it back. Indeed, though Rosberg would fight back in the race, he was disappointed to come off worse in another tete-a-tete

"At turn one for sure it was very aggress🅘ive but I don't what to say yet because I haven't seen it yet so I can't comment," he said speaking directly after the race. "As always it was e✅xtremely aggressive, we hit each other, or I would say Lewis came into me, so that is not good but I can't say more than that."

Despite showing impressive pace at times in the race, Rosberg's efforts were undone by him running wide at turn 17, an error he wa𒐪s mys❀tified by.

"I just got lots of wheel spin - the slip has never happened to me ever, not even in testing, racing or anything like that. I don't know 💜how to explain it. It is unbelievable. That was really, really tough at theꦦ time to lose the lead like that and to lose the win."