Lewis Hamilton hails ‘amazing’ Brazil for holding F1 champion Nelson Piquet accountable with hefty fine
The 70-year-old three-time F1 world champion has been ordered to pay five million Brazilian Reals (£780,000) in moral damages for using a racial slur in reference to Hamilton when commenting about his British Grand Prix crash with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen, who is the partner of Piquet’s daughter Kelly🌼.
Hamilton called for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:“archaic mindsets” to change after the footage from the 2021 interview surfaced last June. Piquet later apologised for his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:“ill-thought-out” remark about the seven-time world champion.&nbs🦩p;
In a separate clip, which emerged later, Piquet used racist and homophobic language when describing how Hamilton narrowly missed out on the 2016 championship to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nico Rosberg.
"Back when it happened I made comments on it - I still believe that we generally shouldn't be giving people that are just full of hate a platform,” Hamilton said ahead of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Australian Grand Prix.
"I'd like to acknowle💮dge the Brazil government. I think it's pretty amazing what they have done in holding someone accountable, showing people that it's not tolerated🌺.”
Hamilton, who was declared an honorary citizen of Brazil last year, added: "Ra♉cism and homophobia is not acceptable and there is no place for it within our society,”
"I love that they [the Brazilian gover✨nment] have shown that they stand for something.
"I wish that more ﷽governments out there would do that, such as you've just seen in Uganda, and there are other countries in Africa and the Middle East - there's a lot of that can be learned from that."
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