According to Piquet, this is not a racist term, but other native speakers disagree.
Nelson Piquet won three World Championship titles. Lewis Hamilton has seven of them. AOP
F1 legend in the midst of racism, Brazilian Nelson Piquet apologized and explained his speeches a year ago, which have now surfaced.
Earlier this week, it was reported that Piquet had filmed a British F1 driver in a video filmed late last year Lewis Hamiltonia with a racist term.
Piquet issued a bulletin that began with the Brazilian champion wanting to clarify the stories that revolve around him.
– I chose my word poorly and I do not defend it, but I will make it clear that the term I used is widely and historically used in Brazilian colloquial language as a synonym for ‘type’ or ‘person’ and was not intended to offend.
Piguet vehemently denied that it was his intention to use a word that despises a person because of this skin color.
– I wholeheartedly apologize to everyone who has been affected, including Lewis, who is an amazing driver. But in some media, the circulating translation is not correct.
Piquet’s explanation has already been knocked out. The Brazilian used the word neguinho, and Motorsport.com news site According to reporters who speak Brazilian as their mother tongue, this is a derogatory term that refers to skin color.
Driving in the F1 series from 1978 to 1991, Piquet won three world championships (1981, 1983, 1987) and 23 races in his career.