Comments on: Nelson Piquet Jnr dropped by Renault

By: bwells

bwells — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:31:13 +0000

I love how he calls Briatore his executioner… quite the flair for the dramatics… I think he pulled his own rope… the bottom line for me… when your drive is on the line and you have the same equipment as Fernando then you go to the press and say “I will beat me teammate”… you better get it done… and again he was slower.. I guess time will tell for who knows what will happen in the future… as much as I didn’t like him at Renault.. I hope that he finds peace with daddy…

By: Chaz

Chaz — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:48:42 +0000

Nelson has released a statement on his website http://www.npiquet.com/news.asp?NewsID=336

By: Hakka

Hakka — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:32:22 +0000

His statement is a pretty interesting read:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77539

Confirms his departure from Renault among other things.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:25:41 +0000

It would be great if Piquet Senior started (or bought) a team. He’s been successful in just about everything he has ever done. Is very well connected, too. I have no doubt he could make it work. Might need a better driver than his son, though.

By: Patrickl

Patrickl — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:04:11 +0000

Yeah Briatore stole Schumacher from Jordan and I’ll bet something fishy went on when Alonso was teken over from Minardi.

Anyway, I was joking obviously. Since my statement doesn’t agree with Piquet.

Still I do think it was poor judgement of Briatore to renew Piquet’s contract. You have to be utterly blind to have seen (possible) improvement there.

By: nelore

nelore — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:56:53 +0000

Piquet Sr, get your own team but do not name the beast “Copersucar”, been there done that and it faaailed

By: nelore

nelore — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:51:17 +0000

or another barrichello..is it two r’s and two ll’s or what…

By: Faustao

Faustao — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:54:16 +0000

This news has not been confirmed by no one else and I checked all the Brazilian sites!

By: dmw

dmw — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:26:01 +0000

RG will have a short career. GP2 only has 5-7 decent drivers in it, and Grosjean has not shown he is clearly leading this group. He’s no Hulkenberg. Piquet’s claim to fame has been being second best to Hamilton in that series. That’s simply not a stellar credential in GP2.

He’s not as good as Kovalainen. KOV always has some kind of set up trouble, graining, whatever, on Sundays, but he qualifies just as well as Hamilton. Rosberg is a similar story. But those guys are fast — and would be winners if they knew how to manage a car.

Grosjean’s best chance is that Flav can’t find anyone to fill the first chair except for some journeyman when Alonso bounces. He might get to race Sutil or Luizzi, who may match his volume of mistakes.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:05:36 +0000

I dont think they will end up with anywhere to go though.