Incident again inappropriate vocabulary used on the internet impact on motorsport. In this case it is Juri VipsFormula 2 competitor and Red Bull Racing test driver in the Formula 1who took his punishment.
The announcement issued by Red Bull Racing to Juri Vips
“Red Bull Racing has suspended young driver Juri Vips from all team roles immediately, pending a full investigation into the incident. As an organization we condemn any kind of abuse and have a policy zero tolerance for racist language or behavior to our team” the group expressed on June 21.
—Oracle Red Bull Racing (@redbullracing) June 21, 2022
The investigation closed on June 28, finding Juri Vips guilty despite the young pilot apologizing. The team took what happened very seriously and so they kicked him out.
—Oracle Red Bull Racing (@redbullracing) June 28, 2022
Who is Juri Vips?
Juri Vips is a pilot born in Estonia in 2000 since 2018 he belongs to the Red Bull team’s young talent program. He got there after spending his teenage years at the international level as a go-kart driver and was the 2017 ADAC Formula 4 Championa German championship.
Between 2018 and 2019 won seven races in the FIA Formula 3 Championship, finished second in the Macau Grand Prix and moved up to Formula 2, the previous step to Formula 1.
In Formula 2 he contested 43 races, with two wins in 2021. seventh in the 2022 championshipin which he participates with her high tech team like last year.
Since 2020 he has been a reserve driver and simulator for Alpha Tauri and Red Bull in both the 2021 end-of-season tests and the 2022 Spanish Grand Prix free tests. drove a Red Bull carwhich has listed him as one of the pilots of the near future.
What did Juri Vips say, what does it mean and why was he kicked out?
The 21-year-old Estonian driver was initially penalized and then disqualified after a online streaming of a video game with Liam Lawsonanother young Red Bull driver who also works in Formula 2, and Dave Gore, will use the word “Nigga”a racial slur.
Nigga comes from Nigger, a word used in the United States by whites to refer to people with black skin, slaves in that country until the 19th century. It’s a condition too offensive against the African-American community.
Kyle Larson’s NASCAR History
The case of Vips is not the first echo of this style: Kyle Larson, 2021 NASCAR Champion and one of the best pilots in the United States, he was suspended by NASCAR and expelled of the Chip Ganassi Racing team in April 2020 for using the same term as Vips during an online session of the iRacing simulator.
After being offered Sorryto perform a sensitivity training required by NASCAR and to participate in lessons and lessons to learn about the African American community, Larson was reinstated by NASCAR in January 2021 and signed a contract with the Hendrick Motorsports team, with which he became champion.
