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Old March 27th, 2023 #1
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Default Former F1 champion Nelson Piquet fined nearly $1M for racist, homophobic comments about Lewis Hamilton

Former F1 champion Nelson Piquet fined nearly $1M for racist, homophobic comments about Lewis Hamilton

March 26, 2023

RIO DE JANEIRO — Retired Formula One champion Nelson Piquet has been ordered by a Brazilian court to pay $950,000 in “moral damages” for making racist and homophobic comments about Lewis Hamilton.

The 70-year-old Brazilian had referred to seven-time champion Hamilton as “neguinho,” a racially offensive term which means “little Black guy,” in 2021. In another interview, Piquet used racist and homophobic language.

The court in Brasilia on Friday ordered Piquet to pay 5 million Brazilian reals “in collective moral damages, to be allocated to funds for the promotion of racial equality and against discrimination of the LGBTQIA+ community.”

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