The FIA’s harsh response to Nelson Piquet’s racist comments about Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton is living this season in a complicated situation. After years of fighting (and almost always winning) the title, the Briton sees how he is now no longer able to fight to climb to the top of the podium, a frustrating situation where we must add to the unfortunate controversies in extra-sports.

The last of them was revealed in the last few hours, when Some of Nelson Piquet’s words were made public where he made racist comments on the Mercedes driver commented on last year’s incident at Silverstone with Max Verstappen.

“The ‘neguinho’ (black) placed the car in a way that Verstappen could not direct it. The ‘neguinho’ did it because he knew the two would not be able to cross this corner. He was lucky that only the other car collided, he acted dirty, “said the former Brazilian champion about the famous maneuver.

The words of Piquet, Max Verstappen’s father -in -law, were severely criticized by the FIA, which “condemns any form of racist or discriminatory language and conductwith no place in sport or in society in general ”.

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The Mercedes team has also spoken also this Tuesday with a forceful message via his twitter account.

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