A Brazilian court ruled on Friday that Brazil’s triple Formula One champion Nelson Piquet must pay $953,050 in moral damages for racist and homophobic comments against Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton.
Brazil’s triple Formula One champion Nelson Piquet must pay $953,050 in moral damages for racist and homophobic comments against Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, a Brazilian court ruled on Friday.
‘These old voices are, you know, whether subconsciously or consciously, do not agree that people like me, for example, should be in a sport like this, do not agree women should be here,’ Hamilton said in the wake of the controversy that rocked the sport last summer. Piquet, 70, apologised to the British driver and said his comments had been mistranslated. Piquet’s daughter Kelly is Verstappen’s partner.
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