Former F1 champion Piquet fined for Hamilton racist comments | Motorsports News
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 25, 2023
Brazil’s Nelson Piquet used racist, homophobic language against Lewis Hamilton, the sport’s only Black driver.
Brazil’s triple Formula One champion Nelson Piquet must pay five million Brazilian reals ($953,050) in moral damages for racist and homophobic comments against Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, a Brazilian court has ruled.
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.
Hamilton called for action to change . . .
