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
The Justice of the Federal District in Brazil accepted th🍌e actions of four organisations who have sued Piquet in his home country for the commeꦑnts,
They are seeking compensation of R$ 10 mil💫lion (£1.56꧙m).
The charges 💦alle♌ge moral damage to black and LGBTQ+ groups.
Piquet can contest this charge within the allotted 15 day🎀s, 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 last year.
Further footage saw him add a homophobic word.
Piquet apologised but insisted the word he used ﷺwas not intended to be racist.
"I don't ♋know why we are continuing to give these older voices a platform," Hamil🐷ton said.
