Nelson Piquet used each racist and homophobic language to explain Sir Lewis Hamilton, new footage has proven.
Former Method 1 world champion Piquet was closely condemned earlier this week after a video of the Brazilian utilizing a racial slur whereas discussing Hamilton emerged.
However on Friday, the matter was escalated additional after extra footage of Piquet was revealed the place he once more used the identical racial slur in addition to homophobic language whereas speaking about Hamilton, his former teammate and world champion Nico Rosberg and Rosberg’s father Keke, himself a world champion who raced in opposition to Piquet within the Eighties.
On a Brazilian podcast, he stated: ‘Keke? He was a s***! He’s nugatory.
‘His son [Nico] gained the championship. The ‘n*******’ was [more focused on] giving a** at the moment. He was kinda unhealthy.’
Piquet seems to be referring to the 2016 title battle the place Nico Rosberg pipped Mercedes teammate Hamilton to grow to be world champion.
His feedback had already acquired widespread backlash from these inside the F1 group and past, with reviews suggesting that the three-time title winner has now been banned indefinitely from the F1 paddock.
Piquet had issued an apology to Hamilton however claimed he was not a racist and that his remarks had been mis-translated.
Hamilton for his half has additional reiterated the necessity for change and has known as for ‘older voices’ to not be given a platform to share their ‘archaic mindset.’
‘These outdated voices are, , whether or not subconsciously or consciously, don't agree that folks like me, for instance, needs to be in a sport like this, don't agree girls needs to be right here,’ he stated on Thursday.
‘Discrimination isn't one thing we needs to be giving a platform. We want folks to be bringing folks collectively. We're all the identical and the feedback we're seeing usually are not useful.’
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