On Tuesday, the feature met the three-time world champion of Brazil after an interview discussing Lewis Hamilton’s accident in Silverstone last year with Max Verstappen, which was recorded in Portuguese in November, gained a wider audience.
In it, he referred to the British as “Neguinho”, which translates as “little n
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The Formula 1 community was terrified. And if there is any consolation for Hamilton as he feels unjustifiably abused, it is that there was not a single word of support for Pique from the world of car racing, just condemnation.
Nor was it a surprise at this feature of Pique, as his naughty boy has been “fooling around” for a long time in something much more unpleasant.
John Watson, who drove for a while with the 69-year-old son of a Rio doctor and politician to the Brabham team in the early 1980s, told Sportsmail: “Why should I be surprised by what this hole says?”
Nelson Pique was criticized by Formula 1 bosses after his comments on a Brazilian podcast (photo)
Pique (right) used a racist insult to describe Hamilton (left) in an interview, causing outrage
Pique’s form of personal insult is well developed. He mocked Ayrton Senna, calling him “the taxi driver of Sao Paulo”. If he had stopped there, we could have forced a guilty laugh, but even then only.
He went, of course, further, making widely contradictory allusions about Senna’s sexuality, saying that his (Pique) girlfriend at the time, one of many, would guarantee his verdict that Senna did not love women.
Pique did not stop there. In an interview with the Brazilian version of Playboy, he dismissed Nigel Mansell as an “uneducated fool with a stupid and ugly wife.”
The seven-time world champion retaliated against Pique’s racist comments, calling for “action” against “archaic mentalities”.
“I do not know why Nigel did not turn off his lights when he said what he did for Roseanne,” Watson said. Mansells have been happily married for 47 years.
“It was typical Pique,” Watson continued. “Some people around him thought he was very funny. Niki Lauda was one of his great friends, but I never realized that what Niki saw in him, other than Nelson, was a serial s **** and Niki was not far behind in this regard.
“I remember a few years ago I got on a plane and Nelson saw me and said, ‘I didn’t know you were still alive.’ He and Flavio Briatore laughed at that. It’s what you expect from him. He is smart but arrogant. He once had a fight with Alan Jones (Williams’ 1980 world champion from Australia) and Alan told him, “If you start, I’ll throw you in the next world” and he would.
“Nevertheless, Nelson had this rebuke. Many of the people who worked with him liked him.
“But any apology from Nelson for these last comments is laughable. He never apologized for anything in his life.
F1 bosses say Pique’s miserable language “has no place in society”, calling Lewis “an incredible ambassador”
“He would have thought of his remarks, which describe Lewis in such a derogatory, amusing way. So is. I will cancel his Grand Prix pass for life or five years or whatever it takes.
There were other cuts and scratches, including an altercation with Chilean Eliseo Salazar in Germany in 1982.
An amazing career that saw him lead to Brabham, Williams, Lotus and Benetton pushed him to the end of the Indianapolis 500 in 1992, where, after derogatory comments about the track, he crashed and severely damaged his ankle and leg, resulting in to sit outside. the race.
The FIA strongly condemns any racist or discriminatory language or behavior that has no place in sport or in society at large. We express our solidarity with @LewisHamilton and fully support his commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion in motorsport.
– FIA (@fia) June 28, 2022
An elderly playboy, Piquet, who made an extra fortune in pioneering GPS technology in South America, rarely appears in Formula 1 these days.
He suffered from illnesses that required heart surgery in New York. Kelly’s daughter goes out with Red Bull world champion Max Verstappen. Piquet was a little more when his son, Nelson Jnr, wrote his own insult chapter.
Now 36 and racing in Brazil, he was driving for the Briatore Renault when he deliberately crashed into the Singapore Grand Prix in 2008 to pull out a safety car that gave his teammate Fernando Alonso the victory.
Pique discusses incident between Red Bull Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton pictured at last year’s British Grand Prix
Piquet Jnr, fearing for his future in the team a year later, poured the beans. The accomplice had become grass.
So is F1 racist or is Pique extreme? Two things. First, the sport is mainly white and male. This is not, I believe, due to any bias, but a result of the demographics that pervade engineering courses in Britain and, to some extent, in Italy.
Secondly, I have not heard any language used or expressed in line with Piquet’s view in the last 10 years.
With that said, Red Bull has terminated the contract of Juri Vips, their 21-year-old Estonian backup driver, who uttered the word n while transmitting a video game.
According to Hamilton, there is still work to be done.
