29th-Mar-23, 05:52 PM
The Piquet Williams is still available on the Scalextric site, so I’m guessing the licensor in question is McLaren?
Although Piquet made the comments in 2021, he has only recently been sanctioned by a court. He originally claimed his comments don’t have the same connotations in Brazil as elsewhere (the Luis Suárez defence) - although local anti-racist and LGBTQ groups poured scorn on that and Piquet later made an apology of sorts. A Brazilian court fined him nearly a million US dollars last Friday, the judge explaining the reason for the fine “so that, as a society, we can someday be free from the pernicious acts that are racism and homophobia".
In that context, I’m not really surprised if McLaren (or whoever) might want to pull their involvement with the Scalextric model. It wasn’t exactly a significant car - 3 races, 1 ninth-place finish for BS Engineering - whereas the FW11 is a world championship-winning Williams.
Although Piquet made the comments in 2021, he has only recently been sanctioned by a court. He originally claimed his comments don’t have the same connotations in Brazil as elsewhere (the Luis Suárez defence) - although local anti-racist and LGBTQ groups poured scorn on that and Piquet later made an apology of sorts. A Brazilian court fined him nearly a million US dollars last Friday, the judge explaining the reason for the fine “so that, as a society, we can someday be free from the pernicious acts that are racism and homophobia".
In that context, I’m not really surprised if McLaren (or whoever) might want to pull their involvement with the Scalextric model. It wasn’t exactly a significant car - 3 races, 1 ninth-place finish for BS Engineering - whereas the FW11 is a world championship-winning Williams.
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