Nelson Piquet fined £780,000 for comments about Lewis Hamilton
 

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Three-time Formula One world champion Nelson Piquet has been ordered to
pay 5,000,000 Brazilian Reals (£780,000) for making
comments about Lewis Hamilton.

The Brazilian, 70, referred to Hamilton in Portuguese as “neguinho” in an
interview in late 2021 when referring to the first lap incident between the
Mercedes driver and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen at that year’s British Grand Prix.

Piquet, whose daughter Kelly is Verstappen’s girlfriend, later apologised for
his "ill-thought-out" language, arguing that the term was “one that has
widely and historically been used colloquially in Brazilian Portuguese as a
synonym for ‘guy’ or ‘person’ and was never intended to offend”.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/formula-...omments-lewis/

I would hope he will appeal as it seems crazy high?

:shrug: Who gets to spend the £780,000?

hopefully not faded everyone is a racist Hamilton

Ia he affiliated with any team?

But the money goes somewhere. Surely we should know it's going to some sort of charity.

Not that it will disappear into someone's pocket.:fist:

It's like most huge fines. I'd really like to know who gets the money.

However gross his comments were, it's ridiculous that anyone would have to shell out any money just for saying something mean.

I personally agree with you.

However in today's society he could've been arrested for his comments, so he was lucky to avoid that punishment at least.

The Stig
on GBnewsHD
said he is wrong
and knows better.

["Neguinho", translated literally, means little black male.]