A video from 2021, in which Nelson Piquet analyzes an accident in the British Grand Prix between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen returned to circulate this weekend and has been causing controversy in the nets. At one point, the ex-driver calls the English seven-time Formula 1 world champion “neguinho”.
In an interview with journalist Ricardo Oliveira, Piquet criticized Hamilton for not taking his foot off right on the first lap of the British GP at the Copse curve, one of the most famous at Silverstone. The fact happened in July last year, when the two disputed the leadership of the competition. Piquet, who is the father-in-law of Verstappen, daughter Kelly’s girlfriend, accused the Englishman of having done a “fu*****”.
He also compared the crash of the cars with the confusion that had happened with Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost at the start of the Japanese Grand Prix in 1990. [o outro piloto desviar]”. Senna didn’t do that. Senna left straight away. The black guy left the car because there was no way to pass two cars on that curve. He played a dirty trick. [ Verstappen].You did a f**king shit”, Piquet shot.
At the end of the season in December, Dutchman Max Verstappen claimed victory at the Abu Dhabi GP and his first career world championship, overtaking Lewis Hamilton on the final lap.
The video went viral and Nelson Piquet ended up being heavily criticized. Some netizens even recalled that the three-time world champion drove Jair Bolsonaro’s Rolls-Royce on the Independence Day Holiday parade, on September 7, 2021.
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