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Piquet: There's nothing I said wrong and I don't really care
A Brazilian judge ordered an investigation be opened into allegations that retired Formula 1 driver Nelson Piquet used racist and homophobic slurs about Lewis Hamilton. The 69-year-old Piquet made the comments in interviews filmed in November, which only came to wider attention late in June. After the second excerpt was published, Piquet told Motorsport Magazine during the Le Mans classic that the outrage about his comments is irrelevant: 'There is nothing, nothing I said wrong. 'And I don't really care, it doesn't disturb my life. I am here with my friends, we are having fun, that's it,' added the three times F1 World Champion. The charges in his homeland were brought by four human rights...
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