Hadn't seen this:
https://www.nbcsport...at-indianapolis
I didn't want to post this in Racing Comments, since the event in question was in 1992...
Posted 02 October 2023 - 14:58
Hadn't seen this:
https://www.nbcsport...at-indianapolis
I didn't want to post this in Racing Comments, since the event in question was in 1992...
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Posted 03 October 2023 - 01:33
Thanks for sharing. The Piquet daughter in question though, is Julia, not Kelly.
Posted 03 October 2023 - 08:56
Interesting article, Piquet's brief adventure in Indycar is often overlooked now.
Thanks for sharing. The Piquet daughter in question though, is Julia, not Kelly.
Yes - I was not familiar with Piquet's various offspring.
https://www.sportske...nd-kelly-piquet
Julia lists her current job as business development for DNS racing and is Daniel Suarez's fiancee:
https://www.linkedin...in/julia-piquet
Kelly Piquet is a model and is currently Max Verstappen's girlfriend:
https://en.wikipedia...ki/Kelly_Piquet
Apparently, Piquet had his daughters educated in the US.
Posted 03 October 2023 - 09:35
Posted 03 October 2023 - 13:08
Thanks for sharing. The Piquet daughter in question though, is Julia, not Kelly.
EEK! Thanks!
Posted 03 October 2023 - 16:41
Interesting photo, have you got a date for it? From the crash and reports I read at the time I was expecting worse, and Nelson's right leg doesn't look damaged at all. My post was prompted by my morbid interest in shattered legs, having suffered comparable injuries myself about 40 years ago, and despite gloomy forecasts at the time, I made quite a good recovery, much as Nelson seems to have done.
Posted 03 October 2023 - 18:02
Edited by Dave Ware, 03 October 2023 - 18:03.
Posted 03 October 2023 - 20:10
Posted 04 October 2023 - 06:13
He is forgotten by many as he has been cancelled , for making some idiotic comments about Lewis Hamilton . Crass and racist , yes , but a life ban (I think ? ) from the F1 paddock ? I'd ban Ecclestone for cosying up to Putin and other ghastly characters as he pimped the sport to the highest bidder but Piquet deserved a hefty slap on the wrists in comparison .
Posted 04 October 2023 - 06:51
Posted 04 October 2023 - 07:11
Interesting article, Piquet's brief adventure in Indycar is often overlooked now.
SNIP
Overlooked because of reasons.
it was a miracle that he was back at Indy one year later but that was secondary of not of even less importance to the media due to the arrival of Nigel Mansell in CART that season and those first races of Nigel before Indy made enough headlines in themselves. And his arrival at Indy was then delayed due to recovering from the injuries after his crash at Phoenix. yet more headlines.
Add to all of that the PR coup of AJ Foyt who still practiced on Pole day in the early morning sessions but minutes before qualifying was to start all of a sudden announced his retirement as and Indycar driver and did a last lap of honour....
There are years at Indy that the headlines about Pole Day are not because of who won the pole and how. 1993 was one of those years.
Anyway little wonder that Nelson's come-back went lost in the sea of other headlines.
And the team he drove for (Menard) did not make that much of an impression that year like the year before due to the track being reconfigurated in the corners and other slight modifications to the rules about the cars that were not helping the Buick V6 powered kind of cars like Menard used and Nelson drove.
And with being the second retirement of the race did not generete too much of an impact either.
let's leave it at this point because there is more to tell about Piquet at Indy of which he and others would happy if that will remain forgotten and ignored.
His un-Saint-like status nowadays is nothing new for him.
Edit: Agree with some sentiments about him being a fantastic driver and fair at the track between start and finish. He has earned my respect with what he did between starting lights green and finish flag fallen. EndEdit
Edited by Henri Greuter, 04 October 2023 - 07:16.