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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, who is the♊ partner of Piquet’s daughter Kelly.
Hamilton called for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“archaic mindsets” to change after the footage from the 2021 interview surfaced last June. Piquet later apologised for his 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“ill-thought-out” remark about th▨e seven-time world champion.
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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Australian Grand Prix.
"I'd like to acknowledge the Brazil government. I think it'🍨s pretty amazing what they have done in holding someone accountable, showing people that it's ൲not tolerated.”
Hamilton, who was declare൩d an honorary citizen of Brazil last year, ad💃ded: "Racism and homophobia is not acceptable and there is no place for it within our society,”
"I love that they [the Brazilian government] have shown🌺 that th💎ey stand for something.
"I wಞish that more governments out there would do that, such as you've just seen in Uganda, and there are other countrieꦜs in Africa and the Middle East - there's a lot of that can be learned from that."
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