Nelson Piquet, a three-time Formula One champion, was fined nearly $1 million for racist and Homophobic Remarks he made about Lewis Hamilton, the sport's only Black driver. Piquet used a Brazilian racial and homophobic slur in a 2021 television interview about a crash, involving Hamilton and Max Verstappen, who is in a relationship with Piquet's daughter. Hamilton called for "archaic mindsets" to change after footage of the interview surfaced.

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