Piquet fined £780,000 for racist comments about Hamilton

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Three-time Formula 1 satellite champion Nelson Piquet has been ordered to wage 5 cardinal Brazilian Reals (£780,000) for making racist and homophobic comments astir Lewis Hamilton.

The 70-year-old Brazilian utilized a racially violative word successful referring to Hamilton successful an interrogation successful 2021.

Hamilton called for "archaic mindsets" to alteration aft the footage surfaced.

Piquet aboriginal apologised for his "ill-thought-out" racially abusive remark astir the British Mercedes driver.

Formula 1, Hamilton's Mercedes squad and satellite motorsport governing assemblage the FIA condemned Piquet's comments wherever helium discussed the mishap betwixt Hamilton and Red Bull operator Max Verstappen, who is the spouse of Piquet's daughter, connected the archetypal thigh of the 2021 British Grand Prix.

Piquet said helium "made nary defence" of the remarks, but added the word helium utilized "is 1 that has wide and historically been utilized colloquially successful Brazilian Portuguese arsenic a synonym for 'guy' oregon 'person' and was ne'er intended to offend".

In different interrogation that surfaced later, Piquet utilized racist and homophobic connection erstwhile describing however Hamilton missed retired connected the 2016 title to Nico Rosberg.

Seven-time satellite champion Hamilton is the sport's lone achromatic driver.

The charges against Piquet were brought by 4 quality rights groups, including Brazil's National LGBT+ Alliance, which wanted Piquet to wage 10 cardinal Brazilian Reals for alleged motivation damages.

A Brazilian tribunal ruled connected Friday helium indispensable wage 5 cardinal Brazilian Reals ($953,000), with Judge Pedro Matos de Arrudo saying the magnitude of compensation was fixed "so that, arsenic a society, we tin someday beryllium escaped from the pernicious acts that are racism and homophobia".

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