Nelson Piquet asked to pay R$10 million for spewing racist words to Lewis Hamilton

Nelson Piquet asked to pay R$10 million for spewing racist words to Lewis Hamilton

Nelson Piquet Sr

The past few weeks have not been particularly good for Nelson Piquet after what he said for Lewis Hamilton last year came to light this year. Piquet is known for being one of the greatest drivers in the history of F1. He won a total of 3-World Championships with one of the best teams in the sport. Even after achieving so much in his career, he is recently being hated on the entire Internet and the F1 community, which is because something that happened last year at Silverstone during the first lap. 

The British Grand Prix last year saw Max Verstappen hitting the wall with a force of 51G after Hamilton made contact with the Dutchman on the very first lap. Piquet  was rewatching the entire incident after the race during a Portuguese interview, at which moment he raged at the Briton and called him by the N word, which was an extremely racist act. There was no sudden action taken upon it, but now the Justice has received action against Piquet, with a request for R$10 million by the LGBTQIA+ community. 

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Lewis Hamilton calls Nelson Piquet ‘irrelevant’

Lewis Hamilton(on the left) and Nelson Piquet(on the right)
Lewis Hamilton(on the left) and Nelson Piquet(on the right)

The National LGBTI+ Alliance, the Brazilian Association of Homotransaffective Families, the National LGBTI+ Alliance, Educafro (charged with promoting the inclusion of Blacks in Public and Private Universities), and Centro Santo Dias (human rights defence organisation) filed the lawsuit against Nelson (ABRAFH). “Reparation of collective moral injury and societal damage imposed on the black population, the LGBTQIA+ community, and the Brazilian people in general,” are mentioned by the entities, The Goa Spotlight quoted. 

Regarding the same, Lewis Hamilton stated that “old voices” in Formula One, like Piquet’s, are irrelevant to what the sport hopes to accomplish in the future and should not be given a platform to further prejudice.

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