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Is it?
As he said, it can be interpreted in two ways, and of course people pick up on the bad side and it gets really blown out of proportion, because I know Nelson personally.
Seems shitty to me
Soul-
Can't see that quote in the article, closest I can find is this:
“The wording I think was used – even with different cultures and things they said when they were little and younger – was not correct,” Verstappen said.
“Let it be a lesson to not use that word. It’s very offensive, especially nowadays, and gains even more traction.
“I have spent a bit of time with Nelson, more than the average person, he’s definitely not a racist and he’s actually a really nice guy.
“I’m pretty sure the statement he released, [he argued] you can see the word in two ways, but still better to not use that. But it’s not about that word, the n-word, it’s offensive language to anybody [which] is not correct.”
It's also nice to hear something that doesn't sound like something straight out of a media training session (though that's to be expected from Max I guess):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTX3R-xi7Zs
Naturally people are free to make up their own mind on their opinions on the matter.
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Proper nice selective quoting that.
Max sounds well balanced talking about it if you read the article beyond the clickbait title.
mmccarthy
Carabo
Reasonable response from Verstappen spun into a click-bait headline as expected: https://the-race.com/formula-1/verstappen-piquet-ban-sought-by-f1-not-helping-situation/