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‘He has never been racist to me': Red Bull driver defended after using racist slur while gaming

Indy Pro 2000 driver Enaam Ahmed has come to the defence of Formula 2 driver Juri Vips after he was suspended by Red Bull. Vips was on a livestream when he used racist language, and that came after fellow Red Bull junior Liam Lawson gave him a pink hat, which he refused to wear, allegedly using a homophobic term. The Estonian was immediately suspended from all activity by Red Bull, before he took to social media to apologise for the incident. READ: McLaren driver signs multi-year contract extension Oliver Oakes, team principal of Vips’ Hitech F2 team, was dismayed at the incident. “I was shocked and appalled to hear about this incident,” he told Formula Nerds. “The comments...
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