Watch: Formula One Great Sir Lewis Hamilton Racially Abused by Another Legend Nelson Piquet

Watch: Formula One Great Sir Lewis Hamilton Racially Abused by Another Legend Nelson Piquet

Keba Mothoagae
updated at April 12, 2023 at 8:05 PM
  • Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has been drawn into another furore involving racism
  • A video has emerged of three-time former world champion Nelson Piquet allegedly using a racial slur aimed at Hamilton
  • The Brazilian great is reported to use the Portugues version of the n-word in reference to the British driver

There can never be peace wherever British Formula One driver Sir Lewis Hamilton goes.

The seven-time world champion was allegedly racially abused by another great in the form of the three-time former world champion Nelson Piquet.

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Formula One great Nelson Piquet was seen racially abusing Lewis Hamilton.
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According to IOL, Piquet was quoted as saying in a video doing the rounds:

"The neguinho [N-word] put the car in the wrong way and didn't let [the other driver swerve]. The neguinho [N-word] put the car in the wrong way on the corner, it's because you don't know the curve. It's a very high curve, there is no way to pass two cars and there's no way you can put the car aside.

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"He did [Verstappen] dirty. His luck was that only the other one was gone.”

Hamilton gave a sharp response, saying as reported by Sky Sports:

"I don't know why we are continuing to give these older voices a platform. They're speaking upon our sport and we're looking to go somewhere completely different."

Piquet made a terrible apology, claiming that his use of the slur was "mistranslated".

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This would be the first time Formula One would return to the country since 1993, won by Alain Prost driving a Williams-Renault.

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