{"id":431827,"date":"2023-03-25T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&p=431827"},"modified":"2023-03-25T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T12:48:00","slug":"piquet-fined-for-racist-comments-aimed-at-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/piquet-fined-for-racist-comments-aimed-at-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Piquet fined for racist comments aimed at Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three-time Formula 1 world champion Nelson Piquet has received a fine worth five million Brazilian Reals (approximately one million dollars) for a racist and homophobic comment about Lewis Hamilton<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n

In an interview, the 70-year old, whose daughter Kelly Piquet is dating current world champion Max Verstappen<\/a>, discussed the infamous crash between Hamilton and Verstappen, which occured at the 2021 British Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

Piquet used the word “negro”, referring to Hamilton, though he later explained that “is one that has widely and historically been used colloquially in Brazilian Portuguese as a synonym for ‘guy’ or ‘person’ and was never intended to offend”.<\/p>\n

In another interview, which surfaced later, Piquet could be heard using the same vocabulary, when discussing Hamilton missing out on the 2016 World Championship to Nico Rosberg.<\/p>\n

Piquet later apologised for his unintended racial abuse, aimed at the 7-time world champion, but Hamilton immedietely called for “archaic minds” to be changed after the interview came out in the press.<\/p>\n

The charges against Piquet were brought by four human rights groups, including Brazil’s National LGBT Alliance, which insisted on Piquet paying 10 million Brazilian Reals for alleged moral damages.<\/p>\n

A Brazilian court ruled on Friday he must pay five million Brazilian Reals, with Judge Pedro Matos de Arrudo saying the amount of compensation was given “so that, as a society, we can someday be free from the pernicious acts that are racism and homophobia”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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