I doubt anything will happen. Too much negative publicity already this week. Piquet and now Bernie saying Putin is great and how he should be running europe. FIA have been quick to distance themselves from the comments.
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Nice to see this from Max. With the Vips and Piquet situation, Max was placed in a difficult situation and he handled it well.
He seems to have matured a bit since he became WC and has the best car and a big lead.
He had a big lead last season at this point to be fair, before Mercedes cars started shunting him.
"What I said was ill thought out, and I make no defence for it," said Piquet, a three-time F1 champion.
"But I will clarify that the term used is one that has widely and historically been used colloquially in Brazilian Portuguese as a synonym for 'guy' or 'person' and was never intended to offend.
"But I will clarify that the term used is one that has widely and historically been used colloquially in Brazilian Portuguese as a synonym for 'guy' or 'person' and was never intended to offend.
yep, did well there and showed some maturity in dealing with the question. fair play to him.
Is this a similar situation to what Cavani went through when he said what he said?"What I said was ill thought out, and I make no defence for it," said Piquet, a three-time F1 champion.
"But I will clarify that the term used is one that has widely and historically been used colloquially in Brazilian Portuguese as a synonym for 'guy' or 'person' and was never intended to offend.
Good on Verstappen here. Said all the right words.
New Aston Martin side pod design leaked in a sponsorship announcement ahead of them running it tomorrow.
Swear i have seen this sidepod somewhere before?
I swear i have seen the alpine sidepods somewhere before? Oh yeah on the ferrari?
How is this blantant copying being allowed under the rules?
https://the-race.com/formula-1/a-good-gain-alpine-reveals-redesigned-f1-sidepods-and-floor/
How is this blantant copying being allowed under the rules?
https://the-race.com/formula-1/a-good-gain-alpine-reveals-redesigned-f1-sidepods-and-floor/
Between them and Williams how are we going to be able to tell teams apart soon when they go into overdrive on the weight cutting, there is more and more carbon on view
Yes in a sense of the phrase used, but the context is completely different. Cavani could actually use that defence given that he was talking to a friend, Piquet clearly not. Not that I’d particularly care for defending Cavani either.
Not sure they shunted him. Much more like 50/50.
But he knows he is a match for Leclerc.
That was not the case last season with Hamilton.
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Its a term used between friends in Brazil. He is not really a homophobe.
Christ, what a piece of shit.
I highly doubt Piquet en Hamilton are friends
What saying hamilton lost because he was getting fecked too much in the ass is a term between friends?
Feck are people totally oblivious to irony these days.
In this thread, at least, yes.
Hardly any running in fp1. FP2 will be packed on track. So many new upgrades and so little time to test. Also news to dial the cars in for qually. This could be a interesting and unpredictable weekend at this rate.
My bad
He's used homophobic slurs about Senna too. The man is a fecking disgrace.
The detail on the Mercedes new floor looks incredible. It actually looks wider than before. And in the wet FP1, the driver head looked much more stable.
Now let's see if they have it right
Now let's see if they have it right
Interesting pedal cam. Did not expect the action to be that smooth.
Are they dremeling Seinz's rear wing
Hard to judge the pace on today but tyres look to be a bit safe ie hard.
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Horner explains Red Bull silence after Piquet comments
The boos for Verstappen also followed his comments in the media on Thursday where he condemned Piquet's racially offensive comments in reference to Hamilton, but also insisted Piquet - who is his partner Kelly's father - was "definitely not a racist" and suggested the scandal had been "blown out of proportion".
"Max is absolutely clear that he is fully supportive of Lewis and not just Lewis but any form of racism or discrimination," Horner stressed to Sky Sports F1.
Horner also defended his Red Bull team's response to the Piquet comments.
Red Bull were one of few teams who did not issue a statement or a supportive message to Hamilton when the news broke earlier this week.
But Horner believes the team made their anti-racism stance clear with their action against reserve driver Juri Vips, who has been dropped by Red Bull following racist comments of his own during a gaming stream.
"First of all, of course, we were appalled at Nelson's comments," said Horner.
"It is from an interview from some time ago and obviously we had had an incident with one of our young drivers at the end of last week.
"We took very definitive action when he had made a racist comment and we immediately removed him from the team.
"Then this comes out and we felt we had made a very strong statement through the action of actually dropping Juri from the team and not in any way condoning any form of racism and discrimination.
"We had put out a statement earlier in the day about Juri about having zero tolerance to racism, so to then put out another statement about Nelson Piquet...
"Of course, we are fully behind Lewis, fully signed up to the Hamilton Commission and sometimes actions speak louder than words.
The boos for Verstappen also followed his comments in the media on Thursday where he condemned Piquet's racially offensive comments in reference to Hamilton, but also insisted Piquet - who is his partner Kelly's father - was "definitely not a racist" and suggested the scandal had been "blown out of proportion".
"Max is absolutely clear that he is fully supportive of Lewis and not just Lewis but any form of racism or discrimination," Horner stressed to Sky Sports F1.
Horner also defended his Red Bull team's response to the Piquet comments.
Red Bull were one of few teams who did not issue a statement or a supportive message to Hamilton when the news broke earlier this week.
But Horner believes the team made their anti-racism stance clear with their action against reserve driver Juri Vips, who has been dropped by Red Bull following racist comments of his own during a gaming stream.
"First of all, of course, we were appalled at Nelson's comments," said Horner.
"It is from an interview from some time ago and obviously we had had an incident with one of our young drivers at the end of last week.
"We took very definitive action when he had made a racist comment and we immediately removed him from the team.
"Then this comes out and we felt we had made a very strong statement through the action of actually dropping Juri from the team and not in any way condoning any form of racism and discrimination.
"We had put out a statement earlier in the day about Juri about having zero tolerance to racism, so to then put out another statement about Nelson Piquet...
"Of course, we are fully behind Lewis, fully signed up to the Hamilton Commission and sometimes actions speak louder than words.
definitely not a racist. Feck off Max.
Yeah. At the very least he’s a massive bigot. Was an opportunity for him to step up and show some maturity and he has failed…again.
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yeah and what do we think hamilton is actually doing in the cockpit when he’s “porpoising” down straights. people are just upset that piquet is such a visionary and max approved non piece of shit.
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