Nelson Piquet has apologized to Lewis Hamilton for offending him with his language in a podcast but insists the word he used has been wrongly translated. When discussing Hamilton and Max Verstappen’s clash in the 2021 British Grand Prix, and comparing it to Ayrton Senna colliding with Alain Prost in Japan in 1990, Piquet used the Portuguese term “neguinho” to describe Hamilton. While he has offered an apology to Hamilton, the three-time Formula 1 world champion says translating the term into the n-word in English is incorrect. “I would like to clear up the stories circulating in the media about a comment I made in an interview last year,” Piquet said in a statement. “What I...
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