Nelson Piquet’s Lewis Hamilton remarks: Ex-F1 champion given 15-day deadline by Brazilian authorities to explain racist and homophobic comments
Nelson Piquet has 15 days to clarify the racist and homophobic remarks he made about Lewis Hamilton, according to reports.
- Nelson Piquet
Th✃e Justice of the Federal District in Brazil accepted the actions of four organisations w♓ho have sued Piquet in his home country for the comments,
They are ไ꧃seeking compensation of R$ 10 million (£1.56m).
The ch꧑arges allege moral da꧂mage to black and LGBTQ+ groups.
Piquet c🍌an contest this charge within the allotted 15 days, from 🎀Monday 11 July.
The former three-time F1 world champion, whose daughter is the girlfriend of Max Verstappen, used a racist word to describe Hamilton in a resurfaced𝄹 interview from l♑ast year.
Further footage saw him add a homophobic word.
Piquet🌳 apologised but insisted the word he🎃 used was not intended to be racist.
"I don't know why we are continuing to give these older voices a plat꧂form," Hamilton said.
