News Details

Hamilton responds after Piquet racial slur controversy

Lewis Hamilton has reacted to the situation involving three-time F1 World Champion Nelson Piquet, after the Brazilian labelled him with a racial slur. The seven-time World Champion was the target of a racial slur used by Nelson Piquet in an interview towards the end of the 2021 season. As reported earlier, Piquet used a racial slur when addressing the events of last year's British Grand Prix during an interview conducted in Portuguese with Brazil's Motorsport Talks. The comments have been corroborated by several of Brazil's leading publications and broadcasters, leading to widespread condemnation of Piquet's comments. Both Mercedes and F1 have issued statements addressing the words used by...
Full Story »
1y ago from PlanetF1.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

F1 and Mercedes condemn Piquet after Hamilton racial...

Formula 1 and Mercedes have released statements on Nelson Piquet's...
1y ago from PlanetF1.com

Formula 1 condemns Piquet after Hamilton slur

Formula 1 has condemned three-time World Champion Nelson Piquet for using...
1y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Three-time F1 champion calls Hamilton the n-word after...

Three-time Formula 1 world champion Nelson Piquet called Sir Lewis...
1y ago from Formula1News.co.uk

Red Bull suspends junior driver Vips for racial slur

Red Bull has suspended its junior driver Juri Vips for using a racial...
1y ago from Racer.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Ducati: Bastianini's COTA MotoGP podium an...

Ducati General Manager Gigi Dall’Igna labelled Enea Bastianini's podium...
20h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Pourchaire to make IndyCar debut in Long Beach with...

Arrow McLaren has announced that the reigning Formula 2 champion Theo...

IndyCar's new Aeroscreen makes early debut at Long...

The NTT IndyCar Series will have teams fit a new version of the Aeroscreen...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Sebastian Ogier tops Croatia Rally shakedown

Sébastien Ogier announced his return to FIA World Rally Championship...
19h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Premier League GW34 & FA Cup semi-finals predictions:...

Sports Mole takes on Spinn drummer and Aston Villa fan Louis O'Reilly for...
40m ago from SportsMole.co.uk

Wolverhampton Wanderers handed multiple injury blows...

Head coach Gary O'Neil reveals that Wolverhampton Wanderers have been...
40m ago from SportsMole.co.uk

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.