Three-time Formulation 1 world champion Nelson Piquet is dealing with a courtroom listening to and potential £1.5m nice over his disgraceful racist abuse of Lewis Hamilton.
Footage of the 69-year-old referring to Hamilton with a Brazilian-Portuguese equal of the n-word slur, as effectively utilizing homophobic language, resurfaced final month from an interview he gave to a podcast in his homeland. The interview was recorded final November however solely gained traction on Brazilian tv in late June.
Piquet was discussing the incident between Hamilton and Purple Bull driver Max Verstappen finally 12 months’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone, the place the pair duked for the lead into Copse nook and Verstappen crashed out into the obstacles at excessive pace.
Hamilton was blamed for the incident by Piquet, whose daughter Kelly has been relationship Verstappen for quite a lot of years, earlier than he launched right into a vile tirade together with disgraceful racist language. In an prolonged model of the clip, Piquet additionally makes use of homophobic slurs towards Hamilton.
Each Formulation 1 and Hamilton’s Mercedes staff condemned Piquet’s feedback.
‘Discriminatory or racist language is unacceptable in any kind and has no half in society,’ F1 mentioned in an announcement, whereas Mercedes added: ‘We condemn within the strongest phrases any use of racist or discriminatory language of any variety. Lewis has spearheaded our sport’s efforts to fight racism, and he's a real champion of variety on and off observe.’
Hamilton responded by posting a strong message on-line in regards to the want for motion.
‘It’s greater than language,’ he wrote on Twitter. ‘These archaic mindsets want to alter and don't have any place in our sport. I’ve been surrounded by these attitudes and focused my entire life. There was loads of time to study. Time has come for motion.’
Piquet ultimately made what he known as an apology, however which primarily consisted of him making an attempt to justify his use of bigoted vocabulary.
Now a choose in Sao Paolo has ordered an investigation into Piquet’s feedback, after a human rights group introduced fees towards him for inflicting ethical harm to black and LGBTQ+ folks.
The costs embody a declare for Piquet to pay round £1.5m in damages. Piquet may have 15 days to state his case to evaluate Felipe Costa da Fonseca Gomes of the Distrito Federal courtroom.
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