Clever remark and giggle. That was Nelson Pique’s way from the beginning. The smartest man in the room and the bravest and happiest of it.
Brazil’s three-time world champion caught up on Tuesday after an interview with Lewis Hamilton’s crash at Silverstone last year with Max Verstappen, recorded in Portuguese in November, reached a wider audience.
In it, he calls the British “Neguinho”, which translates as “little n *****”.
The Formula 1 community was horrified. And if there is any consolation for Hamilton, because he feels unjustifiably abused, it is that there was not a word in support of Pique from the world of motor racing, but only condemnation.
Nor was there any surprise in this representative of Pique’s trait, his naughty boy, who had long since descended into something much more unpleasant.
John Watson, who briefly drove with the 69-year-old son of a Rio doctor and politician on the Brabham team in the early 1980s, told Sportsmail, “Why should I be surprised by what this hole says?”
Nelson Pique has been criticized by Formula One bosses after his comments about a Brazilian podcast (pictured)
Pique (right) uses racist insult to describe Hamilton (left) in an outrageous interview.
Pique’s form of personal insult is well developed. He smiled at Ayrton Senna, calling him “the taxi driver in Sao Paulo.” If it had stopped there, we might have forced guilty laughter, but even then it was just simple.
He went further, of course, making widely contradictory insinuations about Sena’s sexuality, saying that his then-girlfriend (Pickett), one of his many, would guarantee his sentence that Sena did not like women.
Pique didn’t stop there. In an interview with the Brazilian edition of Playboy, he dismissed Nigel Mansel as “an uneducated fool with a stupid and ugly wife.”
The seven-time world champion responded to Pique’s racist comments, calling for “action” against “archaic thinking”
“Why Nigel didn’t turn off his lights when he said what he did to Rosen, I don’t know,” Watson said. The Mansells have been happily married for 47 years.
“It was a typical Pique,” Watson continued. “Some people around him thought it was a lot of fun. Nikki Lauda was one of his great friends, but I never understood what Nikki saw in him, except Nelson, he was a serial bastard and Nikki was not far behind in that respect.
“I remember getting on a plane a few years ago and Nelson saw me and said, ‘I didn’t know you were still alive.’ He and Flavio Briatore laughed at that. This is what you expect from him. He is smart but arrogant. He once had an argument with Alan Jones (Williams’ world champion in Australia in 1980) and Alan told him, “If you start, I’ll knock you down in the next world,” and he would.
“And yet Nelson had that arrogance.” Many of the people who worked with him liked him.
“But any apology from Nelson for these latest comments is laughable. He never apologized for anything in his life.
Formula One bosses say Pique’s vile language has “no place in society”, calling Lewis an “incredible ambassador”
“His remarks describing Lewis in this humiliating way would have been amusing.” He is like that. I would cancel his pass to the Grand Prix for life, or five years, or whatever it takes.
There were other notes and scratches, including a battle with Chilean Eliseo Salazar in Germany in 1982.
A stellar career that saw him drive in Brabham, Williams, Lotus and Benetton was pushed to an end at the Indianapolis 500 in 1992, where, after derogatory comments about the track, he crashed and severely injured his ankle and leg, causing him to made him sit. the race.
The FIA strongly condemns any racist or discriminatory language and behavior that has no place in sports or society at large. We express our solidarity with @LewisHamilton and fully support his commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion in motorsport.
– FIA (@fia) June 28, 2022
The adult playboy Pique, who made an extra fortune with the pioneering GPS technology in South America, is rarely seen in Formula 1 these days.
He has suffered deteriorating health, which requires heart surgery in New York. His daughter Kelly is dating Red Bull world champion Max Verstappen. Pique was a little more when his son Nelson Jr. wrote his own head in disgrace.
Now 36 years old and competing in production cars in Brazil, he was driving a Renault in Briatore when he intentionally crashed into the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix to pull out a safety car that gave his teammate Fernando Alonso victory.
Pique was discussing an incident between Verstappen of Red Bull and Louis Hamilton, pictured, at last year’s British Grand Prix
Pique Jr., fearing for his future in the team a year later, spilled over. The accomplice was grassy.
So is F1 a racist or is Pique extraordinary? Two things. First, the sport is mostly white and male. I believe that this is not due to any bias, but as a result of the demographic situation that is flooding engineering courses in the UK and to some extent in Italy.
Second, in the last 10 years, I have not heard any language used or expressions that match Pique’s.
However, Red Bull terminated the contract of Yuri Vips, their 21-year-old Estonian reserve driver, who uttered the n-word while broadcasting a video game.
As Hamilton says, there is still work to be done.
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