Nelson Piquet Driving Ban

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Sorry, not sure if this is relevant or interesting, but the story amused me when I heard about it on the way home this evening. An Ex F1 star banned from driving for a catalogue of speeding & other driving offences. ;D

Three-time Formula One champion Nelson Piquet began taking a driving education course in Brazil after having his license revoked for racking up too many traffic violations, local media reported.


Piquet, one of just three Brazilians to win the Formula One world championship, lost his license in June after receiving a slew of speeding and parking tickets.

His wife, Viviane, also had her license taken away for bad driving and joined her husband in the mandatory driver awareness course.

"I think we have to pay for our mistakes," Piquet, 54, told local news agency G1.

"It's not even just a speeding problem. I got tickets for all kinds of reasons, for things like parking where I shouldn't."

Piquet and his wife, whose 21-year-old son is an up-and-coming test car driver for the Renault Formula One team, will have to attend 30 hours of classes over eight days and pass an exam before regaining their licenses.

Piquet is one of the best-known race car drivers to come out of Brazil, having won the Formula One championship in 1981, 1983 and 1987.

[donsking]

Kind of a mirror for his racing career, he didn't really care what rules he broke on the track, he seemed to think he was above all that boring 'regulation' nonsense.

[schumi]

It does seem to be a regular thing with racing drivers, but when you consider the speeds they do on the track, doing 30 on the road must seem like snail's pace. I believe Eddie Irvine and Jenson Button have had a few run-ins with the law too, but it wouldn't surprise me if there were a lot more.

[Genghis]

donsking said:

Kind of a mirror for his racing career, he didn't really care what rules he broke on the track, he seemed to think he was above all that boring 'regulation' nonsense.

There was always something slightly unpleasant about Piquet.

Didn't he call Mansell's wife fat and ugly - a bit unneccessary.

And threw his toys out of the pram when Williams allowed Mansell to race him, instead of everyone bowing and kowtowing to the great god Piquet.

His 1987 championship win was one of the luckiest of all-time - Mansell pissed all over him that season, only to be hit by freak occurences such as lose wheel nuts, etc.

All the best
Rob

[donsking]

As far as I remember, Piquet liked to think of himself as something of a practical joker and all round funny guy, but most of the others thought he was a berk.

Mansell didn't have a good word to say about him, and the word on the street was that Piquet was one of the toughest and most demanding when it came contract negotiations, with riders that made pop stars look like pussy cats.

He was also petulant and arrogant, and he certainly seemed to have a far higher opinion of his talents than nearly anyone else.

He also was involved in one of the funnier post prang incidents when he decided to kangaroo box another driver (Eliseo Salazar I believe) for allegedly putting him off, in the process making himself look like a total idiot.

As you can probably tell, I was never his biggest fan!

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Hamilton had a prang at low speed in a traffic jam earlier this year i think.

[Genghis]

donsking said:

He also was involved in one of the funnier post prang incidents when he decided to kangaroo box another driver (Eliseo Salazar I believe) for allegedly putting him off, in the process making himself look like a total idiot.

Donsking,

I remember that one - classic!

This is a boring thread though, as everyone agrees that Piquet was an egomanical berk - is anyone going to disagree??

All the best
Rob

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OK....I will...

Piquet was definitely my first favourite in F1.....but I was probably too young to pay any attention to his ego issues!

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He was also petulant and arrogant, and he certainly seemed to have a far higher opinion of his talents than nearly anyone else.

He also was involved in one of the funnier post prang incidents when he decided to kangaroo box another driver (Eliseo Salazar I believe) for allegedly putting him off, in the process making himself look like a total idiot.

As you can probably tell, I was never his biggest fan![/quote]



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