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[Gilles 27]

I can't believe how many are crying about poor little Piquet Junior and the pressure the little guy must be under. What a load of crap. Every Ferrari driver who ever sat in an F1 car would laugh hysterically if you told him about the pressure that Nelson's daddy's name must have put on him. Pressure? Try having an entire country calling for your head because you spun. Having that name opened doors for him that his talent never would have. Having that name has made his racing career easier, not harder. Perhaps he did crash the car to secure a seat and it worked...he has been in that seat for quite a while without any results and constantly WELL behind his team mate. He was given his shot and HE FAILED. He is not a victim, he is a bad F1 driver and as it turns out a waste of human tissue. He will spend the rest of his life regretting his decision to seek retribution by outing his team....and I have no doubt he will never sit in a running F1 car again...for good reason. He sucks.

[billindenver]

So, will he have to wear short pants now and be content with his tricycle?

Depends what that mysterious 50 year old man is in to....

Oh no you didn't. You did not mention AC/DC and Piquet Jr in the same post. Listen, you have stepped over the line on this one. I demand an apology to the people of the world for your complete disregard of all things right and proper. This is an outrage. I am taken aback. I am verklempt.

[EwanM]

I can't believe how many are crying about poor little Piquet Junior and the pressure the little guy must be under. What a load of crap. Every Ferrari driver who ever sat in an F1 car would laugh hysterically if you told him about the pressure that Nelson's daddy's name must have put on him. Pressure? Try having an entire country calling for your head because you spun. Having that name opened doors for him that his talent never would have. Having that name has made his racing career easier, not harder. Perhaps he did crash the car to secure a seat and it worked...he has been in that seat for quite a while without any results and constantly WELL behind his team mate. He was given his shot and HE FAILED. He is not a victim, he is a bad F1 driver and as it turns out a waste of human tissue. He will spend the rest of his life regretting his decision to seek retribution by outing his team....and I have no doubt he will never sit in a running F1 car again...for good reason. He sucks.

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[Jabberwocky]

exactly i think he broke some form of man code in doing this.... just for that reason alone he cannot be trusted again so will not drive ever again. Crashing on purpose isnt important to a new team, the code breaking is the clincher!

you could say the same about Button with his Williams issues

[myownalias]

I can't believe how many are crying about poor little Piquet Junior and the pressure the little guy must be under. What a load of crap. Every Ferrari driver who ever sat in an F1 car would laugh hysterically if you told him about the pressure that Nelson's daddy's name must have put on him. Pressure? Try having an entire country calling for your head because you spun. Having that name opened doors for him that his talent never would have. Having that name has made his racing career easier, not harder. Perhaps he did crash the car to secure a seat and it worked...he has been in that seat for quite a while without any results and constantly WELL behind his team mate. He was given his shot and HE FAILED. He is not a victim, he is a bad F1 driver and as it turns out a waste of human tissue. He will spend the rest of his life regretting his decision to seek retribution by outing his team....and I have no doubt he will never sit in a running F1 car again...for good reason. He sucks.

Renault was no place for a rookie; Flavio Briatore is not the right sort of manager/team boss to help and guide young talent. We'll never know now but if Piquet started out in another team, say last years Toro Rosso under the guidance of Gerhard Berger I believe he would have done much better. Your Ferrari analogy is nether here nor there, as Ferrari rarely put a rookie in their cars, they normally poach proven talent from other teams. Regardless of his F1 performances he had a proven track record in lower Formulas over the years so deserved his break into F1. Yes he could have driven better, being paired up with a double world champion didn't help especially with Briatore's blatant bias towards golden boy Alonso. Maybe he would have benefited from another couple of years in GP2 but finishing 2nd to current world champion Lewis Hamilton in the 2006 GP2 championship is hardly shabby. Which leads me to believe if he went to a team that would have nurtured him more, he would be a much better driver, Briatore consistently running his mouth about Piquet's performances didn't help the situation. I for one will not miss Flavio Briatore in F1... I hope he gets found guilty of race fixing so he'll have to give up his ownership of QPR because he'll then fail to meet the criteria of football club ownership according to FA regulations!

[EwanM]

I suppose Grosjean could be in for a better time.

[myownalias]

I suppose Grosjean could be in for a better time.

Maybe so now that Briatore has gone, it's not like Romain Grosjean has really done any better than Piquet Jr with his highest finish of 15th!

[EwanM]

I suppose Grosjean could be in for a better time.

Maybe so now that Briatore has gone, it's not like Romain Grosjean has really done any better than Piquet Jr with his highest finish of 15th!

Yup, I suppose the company has invested alot of time and money into him. He's done not too bad and his qualifying hasn't been to horrific.
I'd probably say it was fair to judge him into next year. Mind you, I have to agree in some respects.


I thought that Alguersuari was the most impressive of all the drivers dropped in at the deep end.

Mind you, Tonio Luizzi blew all of that with his Monza performance.

[myownalias]

I'm not criticising the new drivers dropped into the hot seat mid-season but dropping Piquet hasn't improved Renault's results... and of course depending on how the FIA race-fixing hearing goes, Grosjean may not get another chance next year if Renault decide to call it day and leave F1 as a manufacturer team.

Antonio Luizzi did a sterling job after nearly two years out of F1... and Alguersuari has done well considering the car he was dropped into, but is he any better than Bordias?

[darwin dali]

So, will he have to wear short pants now and be content with his tricycle?

Depends what that mysterious 50 year old man is in to....

Oh no you didn't. You did not mention AC/DC and Piquet Jr in the same post. Listen, you have stepped over the line on this one. I demand an apology to the people of the world for your complete disregard of all things right and proper. This is an outrage. I am taken aback. I am verklempt.

Life sucks - deal with it

[Big Azza]

I can't believe how many are crying about poor little Piquet Junior and the pressure the little guy must be under. What a load of crap. Every Ferrari driver who ever sat in an F1 car would laugh hysterically if you told him about the pressure that Nelson's daddy's name must have put on him. Pressure? Try having an entire country calling for your head because you spun. Having that name opened doors for him that his talent never would have. Having that name has made his racing career easier, not harder. Perhaps he did crash the car to secure a seat and it worked...he has been in that seat for quite a while without any results and constantly WELL behind his team mate. He was given his shot and HE FAILED. He is not a victim, he is a bad F1 driver and as it turns out a waste of human tissue. He will spend the rest of his life regretting his decision to seek retribution by outing his team....and I have no doubt he will never sit in a running F1 car again...for good reason. He sucks.

He was a bloody good driver, and don't you forget that. He has been successful in all his life up until now, when he was employed by scum. Hence he was therefore not a waste of tissue, and continues not to be a waste of human tissue.

Do you call Sebastien Bourdais a waste of human tissue? Or Jensen Button? Or better still, Alain Prost? Ayrton Senna? Michael Schumacher? The latter 3 have definitely put other people's lives at risk to try and win championships. Some of their shunts were even worse than Piquet. Safety was not as major as it is today. Even worse still - those drivers decided themselves that they were going to endanger other driver's lives. Piquet was FORCED into this.

Big difference. If Piquet is scum, what are Senna, Prost and Schumacher?

I now realise that his daddy dearest wasn't the one who heaped the pressure onto him, and if anyone was blackmailing anyone it was Renault blackmailing Nelsinho. Poor guy. And for him to cop this much slack is bloody ridiculous. All of the sayings on this forum are fuelled by nothing but emotion.

Take a step back, seperate yourself from your emotions and realise exactly what you are saying about Nelsinho.

[Rivelution]

He was a bloody good driver, and don't you forget that. He has been successful in all his life up until now, when he was employed by scum. Hence he was therefore not a waste of tissue, and continues not to be a waste of human tissue.

Do you call Sebastien Bourdais a waste of human tissue? Or Jensen Button? Or better still, Alain Prost? Ayrton Senna? Michael Schumacher? The latter 3 have definitely put other people's lives at risk to try and win championships. Some of their shunts were even worse than Piquet. Safety was not as major as it is today. Even worse still - those drivers decided themselves that they were going to endanger other driver's lives. Piquet was FORCED into this.

Big difference. If Piquet is scum, what are Senna, Prost and Schumacher?

I now realise that his daddy dearest wasn't the one who heaped the pressure onto him, and if anyone was blackmailing anyone it was Renault blackmailing Nelsinho. Poor guy. And for him to cop this much slack is bloody ridiculous. All of the sayings on this forum are fuelled by nothing but emotion.

Take a step back, seperate yourself from your emotions and realise exactly what you are saying about Nelsinho.

[billindenver]

He was a bloody good driver, and don't you forget that. He has been successful in all his life up until now, when he was employed by scum. Hence he was therefore not a waste of tissue, and continues not to be a waste of human tissue.

Do you call Sebastien Bourdais a waste of human tissue? Or Jensen Button? Or better still, Alain Prost? Ayrton Senna? Michael Schumacher? The latter 3 have definitely put other people's lives at risk to try and win championships. Some of their shunts were even worse than Piquet. Safety was not as major as it is today. Even worse still - those drivers decided themselves that they were going to endanger other driver's lives. Piquet was FORCED into this.

Big difference. If Piquet is scum, what are Senna, Prost and Schumacher?

I now realise that his daddy dearest wasn't the one who heaped the pressure onto him, and if anyone was blackmailing anyone it was Renault blackmailing Nelsinho. Poor guy. And for him to cop this much slack is bloody ridiculous. All of the sayings on this forum are fuelled by nothing but emotion.

Take a step back, seperate yourself from your emotions and realise exactly what you are saying about Nelsinho.

[Denthúl]

I can't believe how many are crying about poor little Piquet Junior and the pressure the little guy must be under. What a load of crap. Every Ferrari driver who ever sat in an F1 car would laugh hysterically if you told him about the pressure that Nelson's daddy's name must have put on him. Pressure? Try having an entire country calling for your head because you spun. Having that name opened doors for him that his talent never would have. Having that name has made his racing career easier, not harder. Perhaps he did crash the car to secure a seat and it worked...he has been in that seat for quite a while without any results and constantly WELL behind his team mate. He was given his shot and HE FAILED. He is not a victim, he is a bad F1 driver and as it turns out a waste of human tissue. He will spend the rest of his life regretting his decision to seek retribution by outing his team....and I have no doubt he will never sit in a running F1 car again...for good reason. He sucks.

He was a bloody good driver, and don't you forget that. He has been successful in all his life up until now, when he was employed by scum. Hence he was therefore not a waste of tissue, and continues not to be a waste of human tissue.

Do you call Sebastien Bourdais a waste of human tissue? Or Jensen Button? Or better still, Alain Prost? Ayrton Senna? Michael Schumacher? The latter 3 have definitely put other people's lives at risk to try and win championships. Some of their shunts were even worse than Piquet. Safety was not as major as it is today. Even worse still - those drivers decided themselves that they were going to endanger other driver's lives. Piquet was FORCED into this.

Big difference. If Piquet is scum, what are Senna, Prost and Schumacher?

I now realise that his daddy dearest wasn't the one who heaped the pressure onto him, and if anyone was blackmailing anyone it was Renault blackmailing Nelsinho. Poor guy. And for him to cop this much slack is bloody ridiculous. All of the sayings on this forum are fuelled by nothing but emotion.

Take a step back, seperate yourself from your emotions and realise exactly what you are saying about Nelsinho.

Hello, Nelson. How are you and Nelsinho today? Are the legal battles going well? Are you excited about today's hearing? Gonna get Flav, right?

[pilotfriend]

While I have always had respect for Piquet senior, I am sorry to say that his son is a spoilt little boy living in his father's shadow. Frankly, anyone who crashes deliberately should be banned from all racing events for some time.