Estonian Formula One rider Jüri Vips was expelled from the youth program after not behaving properly in a computer game. In relation to Lewis Hamilton, a Formula One world champion put it in a critical way.
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Red Bull from Estonian reserve rider Jüri Vips, a Formula One rider, redeemed after an online computer game used offensive terms. “After investigating the online incident, Oracle Red Bull Racing has terminated the test and reserve pilot contract with Jüri Vips. The team is not looking at any form of racism,” they wrote in a brief statement.
Vips, sponsored by Red Bull since 2018, was thought by many to be the stable’s next F1 driver (apparently debuting at Alpha Taurine), but if it ever reaches the top category, it won’t happen to energy drinkers.
Nelson Piquet is attacked for a similar case
Nelson Piquet, a three-time Formula One world champion, found himself in a crossfire of criticism over an interview last year. In a Brazilian podcast, he referred to Lewis Hamilton with the term “neguinho” (guessed to be an adjective used in connection with people of color) when he spoke of his clash with Max Verstappen in Silverstone last year.
Although the ominous Portuguese-language interview aired in 2021, many in the social media have now caught their head at Piquet’s words after the Estadão published the objectionable part of the recording. Both Mercedes and Formula 1 have condemned what has been said. “The use of exclusionary and racist language in any form is unacceptable and has no place in our community,” he said. Racingnews365.com the F1 Communication.
It should be added that Piquet is not impartial in the rivalry between Verstappen and Hamilton, since his daughter, Kelly, is the girlfriend of the Dutch pilot.
The Urban Dictionary moreover, Piquet, the criticized Portuguese slang term, is not necessarily used with offensive intent, although Piquet may not have referred to Hamilton benevolently in the interview.
It’s more than language. These archaic mindsets need to change and have no place in our sport. I’ve been surrounded by these attitudes and targeted my whole life. There has been plenty of time to learn. Time has come for action.
— Lewis Hamilton (@LewisHamilton) June 28, 2022
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The Mercedes driver reacted to the events on Twitter. “It’s about more than language. Such ancient thinking has no place in our sport. It’s always surrounded me with such an attitude, I’ve been attacked all my life. I’ve had a lot of time to learn. It’s time to act,” he wrote.
He also indicated in Portuguese the need to change his mindset and shared another user’s post suggesting what it would be like if Hamilton simply wrote, “Who the hell is Nelson Piquet?”
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