Three-time F1 world champion Nelson Piquet has been fined the equivalent of £780,000 by a Brazilian court for using racist and homophobic language against Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton ⬇️
Three-time Formula 1 world champion Nelson Piquet has been fined the equivalent of £780,000 by a Brazilian court for using racist and homophobic language against Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton.In an interview on a Brazilian podcast in November 2021, Piquet used a racial slur referring to seven-time world champion Hamilton, while being asked on his views on Hamilton's British Grand Prix clash with Max Verstappen.
He also claimed he was mistranslated as the derogatory term he used"is one that has widely and historically been used colloquially in Brazilian Portuguese as a synonym for 'guy' or 'person' and was never intended to offend." But four human rights groups, including Brazil's National LGBT+ Alliance, took the matter to court, suing Piquet for 10 million Brazilian reals for moral damages.
On Friday, the civil court in Brazil's capital Brasilia ordered Piquet to pay half the demanded amount, 5 million reals, the equivalent of £780,000. He will be able to appeal. In the decision, the judge in question stated that the size of the fine represents not only"the reparatory function of civil responsibility, but also the punitive function, precisely so that as a society we can one day get rid of the pernicious acts that are racism and homophobia".
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