Rodrigo Piquet, a relative of three-time Formula 1 world champion Nelson Piquet, has defended the 69-year-old after he used a racial slur to describe Lewis Hamilton.
Piquet made the comments while speaking about Hamilton's victory at last year's British Grand Prix, which saw him clash with rival Max Verstappen.
In an appearance on a podcast in November, he twice used the term "n*******"when referring to Hamilton, which is Portuguese slang for the N-word.
