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Originally Posted by wnut
in December 1985 Al Unser Jr. was apparently offered the Brabham drive alongside Piquet for 1986 by Bernie. Al said he was already signed to a contract and committed to Indycar for 1986.
December 1992 Unser spent 5 days at Estoril testing alongside Hill and Patrese and was apparently the fastest of the trio. When he approached Williams about a contract he was told, " We were just interested to see how you performed, and there is no contract available."
Would have been interesting to see Unser alongside Prost in 1993.
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According to one or two ex team personnel who were there at the time, Little Al was in reality nowhere near the regulars on pace. The stories put out were just PR.