Bernie Ecclestone has bizarrely claimed that Lewis Hamilton should "ignore" Nelson Piquet's racist slur as the controversy continues to engulf F1.
Quotes Piquet made in November last year surfaced earlier this week in which he used a slang term for the N-word when discussing Hamilton's crash with Max Verstappen at Silverstone last year.
Ahead of this year's British Grand Prix at the weekend, Piquet has apologised but insists his words did not carry any racist intent.
