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Breaking: Court punishes father of Max Verstappen’s girlfriend for racially abusing Lewis Hamilton

Nelson Piquet has been slapped with a fine of 5 million Brazilian Reals (circa $950,000) for racial and homophobic abuse he hurled at Lewis Hamilton in 2021. The three-time Formula 1 world champion has been ordered to pay the fine by a Brazilian court in “moral damages” to Hamilton. Commenting on his ruling, Judge Pedro Matos de Arrudo emphasised that he set the amount to be paid as moral damages 'in the sense that one should not only appreciate the reparative function of civil liability but also (and perhaps mainly) the punitive function so that, as a society, we can someday be free from the pernicious acts that are racism and homophobia'. In an interview conducted in November 2021,...
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