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Nascar Driver Nelson Piquet Fined For Calling Fellow Driver A "Fag" On Instagram

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(Source) NASCAR fined Nationwide Series driver Nelson Piquet Jr. $10,000 and placed him on indefinite probation Tuesday for using a homophobic slur on Instagram last week. Piquet, who drives for Turner Scott Motorsports, also will have to undergo sensitivity training. While commenting on a photo that Nationwide Series driver Parker Kligerman posted of himself, Piquet used a three-letter slur as a one-word description of Kligerman. The word is offensive to a homosexual.

The comment violated NASCAR’s code of conduct rule, which states that no NASCAR member shall make a public statement “that criticizes, ridicules, or otherwise disparages another person based upon that person’s race, color, creed, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age or handicapping condition.” “Nelson Piquet Jr. recently communicated an offensive and derogatory term that cannot be tolerated in our sport,” Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR senior vice president of racing operations, said in a statement. “NASCAR’s Code of Conduct explicitly spells out in the 2013 rule book our position regarding the use of disparaging terms. We expect our entire industry to abide by this Code.” Piquet, a 28-year-old driver from Brazil and son of a three-time Formula One champion, apologized for the comment: “I sincerely apologize to everyone for my poor choice of words last week,” he said in a statement. “I did not mean to hurt or offend anyone. This has been a cultural learning experience that will make me a more sensitive person moving forward.”

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Look I don’t want to say this was a set up but it totally was. Parker Kligerman may be friends with this guy, he may not, but what I do know is he just unleashed some serious veteran savvy. Know one of my competitors likes to casually drop F bombs on people? Oh well I’ll just take a selfy of my sweaty face and throw it on instagram, bingo bango, Nelson Piquet is spending his free time in sensitivity training while I’m getting better at race car driving. Diabolical. Like look at that picture that shit is Bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S

 

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The fact that Nelson Piquet didn’t go into full on Sammy Sosa mode and pretend he doesn’t know how to speak English is such a fuck up on his part. Be smarter Nelson, be smarter.