Why corporations like Honda help bike racing with youngsters

To attempt to perceive the incomprehensible, I went to the web site of the promoter of the occasion, known as “SuperBike Brasil”, a personal, for-profit group that has no connection to the official bike confederation, because the latter has already mentioned in an official observe.

This hyperlink says that youngsters and youngsters between the ages of 8 and 18 compete within the “Honda Junior Cup” class on a Honda CG 160 Titan bike, whose velocity, in keeping with numerous sites- particular webs, in a position to attain 130 km/ha. On this web page of SuperBike Brasil you’ll be able to even see a spherical image with sixteen women and youngsters, all dressed with the identical outfit and Honda do Brasil emblem.

In different phrases, learning a sports activities competitors is a straightforward enterprise exercise, with a really worthwhile objective and supported by an organization with a industrial curiosity within the exercise. This goes towards not solely the Structure, however your entire nation’s sports activities laws (Common Sports activities Regulation, 14.597/23 and Pelé Regulation, 9615/98), in keeping with which youngsters and adolescents can not as much as 16 years of age to signal employment or sports activities sponsorship contracts. ., a lot much less take part in excessive efficiency competitions for revenue. The Worldwide Bike Federation solely permits competitions with riders over 16 years of age.

Superbike Brasil and Honda do Brasil may clarify to the general public the which means of organizing and supporting an occasion that places youngsters’s lives in danger. In these instances when there may be a lot discuss in regards to the “social accountability” of corporations, it’s actually stunning to see such irresponsibility.

Cassio Casagrande He’s a professor of constitutional legislation at UFF (Universidade Federal Fluminense) and a lawyer on the Public Ministry of Labor in Rio de Janeiro.