NASCAR star’s wife’s shameful family past | Sports News

NASCAR star Daniel Suarez’s spouse, Julia Piquet, has introduced the microscope back on her family’s controversial past following her newest outburst. Piquet, 33, hasn’t been shy to touch upon her husband Suarez’s dramatic exit from Trackhouse Racing final 12 months, and caught the boot in again following his run-in with former teammate Ross Chastain in Las Vegas.

Suarez and Chastain had an altercation on pit highway following the conclusion of Sunday’s race, gained by an emotional Denny Hamlin, who scored his first NASCAR victory since his dad’s tragic passing in a deadly home fire final December. Late contact between Suarez and Chastain at Las Vegas Motor Speedway boiled over after the checkered flag, as Chastain clipped Suarez on the cool-down lap—just for Suarez to fire back with a retaliatory hit of his own.

Chastain additionally gave Suarez the center finger earlier than the pair had been concerned in a heated exchange and a shoving match. The pair averted a full-blown battle on pit highway, with Suarez citing NASCAR’s $50,000 high quality in addition to defending his sponsors, who might get a unhealthy image had fists been thrown. Suarez additionally branded ex-Trackhouse teammate Chastain as “two-faced.”

The altercation sparked debate on social media, with NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Dirty Mo Media X web page calling out Suarez’s spouse, Julia. “But what will Julia say?” the admin wrote, which prompted a swift reply from Suarez’s spouse.

“Tag me when you mention me you whimp [sic],” Julia responded. Dirty Mo Media continued to fan the flames, stating Julia’s misspelling of “wimp.”

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“Sorry… keeping the spelling perfect across five languages gets tricky sometimes,” Julia responded again. It’s not the primary time Julia has come out swinging for her husband.

She did the identical when he left Trackhouse, aiming a thinly-veiled dig on the workforce after he certified fourth for NASCAR’s earlier race in Phoenix. “Amazing the things one can do when you’re no longer just an afterthought,” she stated.

Julia has beforehand claimed she suffers from “crippling anxiety.” Still, her current outbursts shone a highlight on her actions and her family’s controversial past. She is one of seven kids of the controversial Brazilian F1 legend Nelson Piquet and the youthful sister of Max Verstappen’s accomplice, Kelly.

Nelson Piquet’s vile verbal assaults on Lewis Hamilton

Nelson, 73, a three-time F1 champion, triggered worldwide outrage in 2021 after launching racist and homophobic slurs aimed toward seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.

Piquet was ordered by a Brazilian courtroom to pay $950,000 in “moral damages” after referring to Hamilton as “neguinho” — a racially offensive time period that means “little Black guy” — during a podcast dialogue about his conflict with Verstappen.

The controversy deepened as Piquet was additionally accused of utilizing homophobic language towards Hamilton in separate remarks. In 2022, he sparked additional backlash by backing former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, contributing roughly $95,000 to his unsuccessful reelection marketing campaign and later making inflammatory feedback about president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Crashgate

It wasn’t simply Nelson who was embroiled in motorsport controversy. His son, Nelson Jr., was on the middle of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix “Crashgate” scandal.

He intentionally crashed below the orders of the Renault F1 workforce. The crash manufactured a security car, permitting teammate Fernando Alonso to win, ruining rival Felipe Massa’s race and straight impacting that season’s world championship end result.

Massa went on to overlook out on the championship by a single level to Hamilton in Sao Paulo. A current high-court resolution ruled that Massa’s $85.5 million declare in opposition to F1, its governing physique, the FIA, and Bernie Ecclestone can go to trial.