Max Verstappen says Nelson Piquet is not a racist but acknowledges that the word he used to describe Lewis Hamilton in a 2021 interview was 'not correct'. Piquet has been banned from the Formula 1 paddock after using a racial slur during an interview last year in which he was speaking about Hamilton's crash with Max Verstappen at the British Grand Prix. The Brazilian told Motorsport Talk: 'The [racial slur] put the car in and left it, because there was no way to get past two cars at that corner. He drove dirty.' Piquet apologised, saying in a statement that 'the term used is a term that has been widely and historically used colloquially in the Portuguese language in Brazil as a colloquial...
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