Three-time Formula One champion Nelson Piquet Snr has been ordered to pay a £780,000 fine for making racist and homophobic comments about Lewis Hamilton.
'Is someone doing something perverted?': Gwyneth Paltrow says she feared ski collision was a sexual assaultHe said at the time the word is used "colloquially" in the language to mean "guy or person" and was "never intended to offend".
A Brazilian court has now ruled that Piquet must pay a fine of five million Brazilian reals for his comments.Judge Pedro Matos de Arrudo said in his decision that the amount of compensation was given "in the sense that one should not only appreciate the reparative function of civil liability but also the punitive function so that, as a society, we can someday be free from the pernicious acts that are racism and homophobia".
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