The driver Lewis Hamilton, 37, used Twitter to, first, take a wave with tones of irony of former driver Nelson Piquet, 69, who called him a “neguinho”. After sharing a tweet that asked him to simply write “Who is Nelson Piquet” and leave the social network, the Brit replied: Imagine.”
Then he asked for more respect: “Let’s focus on changing the mindset,” he posted. “It’s more than language. These archaic mindsets need to change and have no place in our sport. I’ve been surrounded by these attitudes and targeted my whole life. There’s been a lot of time to learn. It’s time for action,” he countered.
A 2021 video, in which Nelson Piquet analyzes an accident in the British Grand Prix between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, has returned to circulate and has been causing controversy in the nets. At one point, the ex-driver calls the seven-time Formula 1 world champion a “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 Verstappen’s father-in-law, daughter Kelly’s boyfriend, 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.
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