Disgraced former F1 world champion Nelson Piquet is at the centre of more controversy after cursing Brazil's new president.
A presidential election in Piquet's homeland saw Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva return to office by narrowly beating far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. Piquet, aged 70, from Rio de Janeiro, was clearly unhappy with the election winner and has been filmed cursing Silva.
Piquet, who has face paint on each cheek in the video clip is seated with a man, who says: "Look who I'm with here, this big champion Nelson Piquet."
Piquet says: "We're going to get Lula, son of a b****, out of here." The man adds: "That's it! Brazil above everything, God above everything." The former F1 champion then concludes: "And Lula there in a cemetery, son of a b****."
Mirror Sport have contacted Piquet's representative for a response to comments made in the video.
Responding to the video clip, Aston Martin 's communications chief Matt Bishop tweeted: “Disgraceful, pathetic & and sad for F1.”
Piquet won F1 world titles in 1981, 83 and 87, winning his first two titles driving for Brabham and the third with Williams. The Brazilian was condemned by the F1 world earlier this year after footage from 2021 resurfaced, showing him referring to Lewis Hamilton by using the n-word in Portuguese.
At the time Piquet released a statement, saying: "What I said was ill thought out, and I make no defence for it. But I will clarify that the term used is one that has been widely and historically used colloquially in Brazilian Portuguese as a synonym for ‘guy’ or ‘person’ and was not intended to offend.
“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 the colour of his skin."
As a result of the slur, Piquet was banned from the British Grand Prix and it is understood he will not be welcomed back into the F1 paddock.
