Brazil’s triple Formula One champion Nelson Piquet should pay 5 million Brazilian Reals ($953,050) in ethical damages for racist and homophobic feedback towards Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, a Brazilian court docket dominated on Friday.
In an interview in November 2021, Piquet used a racial slur referring to the seven-time world champion, when commenting on Hamilton’s British Grand Prix crash with Max Verstappen.
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Hamilton referred to as for motion to change ”archaic mindsets” after footage of the interview surfaced on social media final June. Piquet, 70, apologised to the British driver and mentioned his feedback had been mistranslated. Piquet’s daughter Kelly is Verstappen’s accomplice.
In one other clip which surfaced later, Piquet used racist and homophobic language towards Hamilton in a podcast interview when describing how Hamilton missed out on the 2016 championship to Nico Rosberg.
Hamilton, who was awarded honorary Brazilian citizenship final June, is the game’s solely Black driver.
The prices have been introduced by 4 human rights teams, together with Brazil’s National LGBT+ Alliance, which wished Piquet to pay 10 million Brazilian Reals for alleged ethical damages.
In his determination, Judge Pedro Matos de Arrudo mentioned the quantity of compensation was given ”within the sense that one mustn’t solely admire the reparative perform of civil legal responsibility but in addition (and maybe primarily) the punitive perform in order that, as a society, we are able to sometime be free from the pernicious acts which can be racism and homophobia”.
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