Formula 1 bosses could ban Nelson Piquet for life following the Brazilian's racist abuse of Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton.
Piquet—whose daughter, Kelly, is in a relationship with Red Bull 's Max Verstappen —has been widely condemned for his comments in a 2021 interview. During the audio clip, the three-time world champion can be heard calling Hamilton "neguinho" (an epithet that translates to 'n****r').
"The n****r put the car in the wrong way and didn't let [the other driver swerve]," the 69-year-old said in Portuguese while describing a clash between Hamilton and Verstappen last year. "The n****r put the car in the wrong way on the corner, it's because you don’t know the curve.
