Piquet referred to Hamilton as “black” when commenting on an accident he had with Max Verstappen
The triple Brazilian Formula 1 champion Nelson Piquet must pay 5 million Brazilian reais (953,050 dollars) for moral damages for his racist and homophobic comments against the British driver of Mercedes lewis hamiltonhas ruled a Brazilian court.
In an interview in November 2021, Piquet referred to the seven-time world champion as “black”, when commenting on Hamilton’s accident at the British Grand Prix with Max Verstappen.
While Hamilton called for action to change “archaic mindsets” after images of the interview appeared on social media last June.
Piquet, 70, later apologized to the British pilot, saying his comments had been mistranslated. Piquet’s daughter Kelly is Verstappen’s partner.
In another clip that surfaced later, Piquet used a racist and homophobic language against Hamilton in a podcast interview describing how Hamilton lost the 2016 championship to Nico Rosberg.
Hamilton, who received honorary Brazilian citizenship last June, is the only black driver in the sport.
The charges were brought by four human rights groupsamong them the National LGBT+ Alliance of Brazil, who wanted Piquet to pay 10 million Brazilian reais for alleged moral damages.
In his decision, Judge Pedro Matos de Arrudo said that the amount of the compensation was given “in the sense that not only should the remedial function of civil liability be appreciated, but also (and perhaps mainly) the punitive function so that, as a society, we can one day free ourselves from the harmful acts What are racism and homophobia?
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