Double World Champion Max Verstappen has been compared to a questionable character, with his girlfriend Kelly Piquet having likened the Dutchman to her father, three-time Formula 1 World Champion Nelson Piquet. Verstappen’s girlfriend was recently hit with criticism following her appearance on the front cover of Vogue Magazine in the Netherlands, where she was wearing
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Female motorsport fans have hit out at Vogue Netherlands for making a motorsport-themed cover using Kelly Piquet, who will be on the front of the famous magazine in its January edition. Piquet, who is a model by trade, is the girlfriend of double World Champion Max Verstappen and the daughter of controversial ex-F1 World Champion
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Nelson Piquet has severely damaged his reputation, firstly making racist and homophobic comments about Lewis Hamilton, and now wishing death upon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The scenes in Brazil are ones of protest at the moment, with massive groups of protesters forming blockades in main roads and demonstrating against Lula, who’s recent election win
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Nelson Piquet was once seen as a Formula 1 legend, winning three championships and amassing 23 wins, however the Brazilian tarnished his name last year when he made racist and homophobic slurs about Lewis Hamilton. Piquet called the seven-time world champion a “neguinho” and also claimed that Nico Rosberg only won the title in 2016
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Whilst double World Champion Max Verstappen was spotted partying with Lando Norris in Monaco, his girlfriend, Kelly Piquet, has come under fire on social media for supporting Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. A Presidential election is currently taking place in the South American country, with Bolsonaro having progressed to the next round of the election against
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Mercedes F1 team principal Toto Wolff has been labelled a ‘PR merchant’ on social media, after an interview he did with the Financial Times has come to light. Whilst in the interview he revealed that the older generation and the ‘Drive to Survive’ generation have different outlooks on life, especially in regard to racism, the
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Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Mark has indicated that Sir Lewis Hamilton’s camp deliberately waited until the British Grand Prix race week to unearth racist comments made by Nelson Piquet. Piquet was giving an interview in November last year when he appeared to use a slur to describe Hamilton while he was analysing the seven-time
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A Red Bull mechanic has revealed a racially motivated message he received on Instagram surrounding his employment with the team. There has been many a suggestion on social media over the last few months that there is an endemic issue surrounding racism at the Red Bull team who, along with Mercedes, have sacked employees for
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Nelson Piquet is facing civil charges in Brazil after he was caught racially abusing Sir Lewis Hamilton last year. In November, Piquet was analysing an incident between Hamilton and Max Verstappen at the 2021 British Grand Prix, after which the Dutchman was sent spinning off into the barrier and out of the race. While the
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Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc suffered a slip of the tongue ahead of the British Grand Prix when talking about Sir Lewis Hamilton. The 37-year-old had been on the receiving end of racist abuse from Nelson Piquet in comments that were made back in November, and resurfaced ahead of the race in Silverstone. Piquet was analysing Hamilton’s
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