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Nelson Piquet could face £1.5m court fine over racist abuse at Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton.The ex-F1 star made the remarks when talking about the British driver on a podcast in November. The 69-year-old was even barred from the British Grand Prix earlier this month, while the Mirror report a human rights group have pressed charges against Piquet, saying the Brazilian did "moral damage to black and LGBTQ+ people".Piquet did apologise for the language he used and will now have to defend his case to Brazilian judge Felipe Costa da Fonseca Gomes of the Distrito Federal court, where he could be ordered to pay out some £1.5m in damages.READ MORE: Daniel Ricciardo "working my a** off" as F1 star issues defiant message over his futureFormula One condemned the words as "unacceptable in any form and has no part in society", while Hamilton said to British GP: "I have been on the receiving end on racism and that negative and archaic narratives and undertones of discrimination. I am not sure why we are continuing to give these older people a platform."They are speaking on the sport but we are looking to go in a different direction.
