Piquet apologises to Hamilton for 'ill thought out' comment

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Brazil's triple Formula One champion Nelson Piquet apologised to Lewis Hamilton on Wednesday after a video emerged of him using an apparent racial slur in Portuguese when referring to the Mercedes driver.Piquet, 69, insisted in a statement however that the 'ill thought out' comment made last November had

Brazil's triple Formula One champion Nelson Piquet apologised to Lewis Hamilton on Wednesday after a video emerged of him using an apparent racial slur in Portuguese when referring to the Mercedes driver.

"I would never use the word I have been accused of in some translations. I strongly condemn any suggestion that the word was used by me with the aim of belittling a driver because of his skin colour. Seven times world champion Hamilton, the most successful driver in the history of the sport, called for action on Tuesday to change"archaic mindsets" after Piquet's comments triggered a media storm and drew widespread condemnation.

 

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