The words used by Nelson Piquet against Lewis Hamilton they could go far beyond the social reprobation, which the Brazilian has experienced in these hours. Despite the apologies, which are more like justifications than repentance, the three-time world champion risks never being able to enter the paddock of the various grand prix again. To report the news was the first BBC.
Sources in F1 have told BBC Sport that Nelson Piquet will not be allowed back into the paddock following this controversy
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Piquet had defined Hamilton with the term neguinho (translatable into negr ** to), which – although used in family contexts with an affectionate tone – takes on a racist connotation when placed in a negative context: in the present case, the former driver expressed strong criticism of Hamilton’s maneuver on Verstappen in the 2021 edition of Silverstone. Piquet, in his apology, remarked that in Portuguese the term is not offensive. But Formula 1 does not seem to want to believe him, and after having published a harsh statement in defense of Hamilton and against any kind of discrimination, he now intends to move on to the facts.
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