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[eibyyz]

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...

[eab]

Thanks for sharing. The Piquet daughter in question though, is Julia, not Kelly.

[Emery0323]

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. 

[Tim Murray]

Title now edited.

[B Squared]

The photo that is mentioned in the article.

[eibyyz]

Thanks for sharing. The Piquet daughter in question though, is Julia, not Kelly.

 

EEK!  Thanks!

[Dave Ware]

http://www.racingjun.../06/piquet2.jpg

[kayemod]

http://www.racingjun.../06/piquet2.jpg

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.

[Dave Ware]

I regret that I don’t have a date for the photo. It came from an article on racingjunk.com, “Nelson Piquet, Forgotten Champion”, from 2015. I should have attributed the photo’s source in my post.
I was searching for a different photo that I saw back in the day, and I seem to recall that both of his lower legs sported that structural apparatus. Must have hurt like hell, as I suppose your similar injuries did.

Edited by Dave Ware, 03 October 2023 - 18:03.

[AJCee]

“Nelson Piquet, Forgotten Champion”

Wow, that’s quite a title for an article. Forgotten by whom?

Do they know of Jack Brabham over at racingjunk.com?

[john aston]

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 . 

[AJCee]

It is true that Nelson Piquet has a history of crass comments and actions, it’s more or less why I went off him. He may be persona non grata, but his achievements in racing cars simply can’t be ignored or forgotten.

Can’t say I disagree about the cosying up to despots.

[Henri Greuter]

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.