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Earlier christmas for Piquet Jr.
Hot from the oven... Piquet Sr. has bought half of the brazilian franchise and will share it with Fittipaldi.
Now Piquet Jr. has surely the drive. The other driver might be Tony Kanaan, who could bring more sponsors and politically would make more sense. That is bad news for drivers who would hope this series will be not as political **** like F1. Oliveira, who kicked Piquet's ass in silverstone test driving only one morning might not have a chance. |
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Indeed bad news on the politics side of things, but really Piquet JR is a fantastic driver anyway and deserves a place in A1 GP. IMO. Yes Piquet wasnt the fastest at the A1 test but hes shown what he can do on the International scene in GP2.
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This championship is sure going to have a classy line up of drivers .
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Piquet Jr is much better driver than Oliveira. Remember that Nelsinho easily won British F3, and Joao Paolo completely lost German F3.
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He has won races for that never known team called SRT, who now doesn't run anymore. He was 3rd in the champiosnhip in 2002 when he had to retire from team kolles after the team's truck caught fire. Not even british star Jamie Green could ever be in top 10 in the same car later in that year. The year after he won alomst everyrace for JB motorsport. |
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Oliveira had no previous experience in Silverstone, drove the track for the 1st time. He also has little experience with more powerful cars. Piquet was driving in his backyard, drove the first day almost complete and used 2 new sets of tires to set a 49.08. Oliveira drove the morning after on an old set of tires from piquet and then had 10 laps in a new set, recording 48.81, almost 3 tenths on piquet jr. laptime. It's true that laptimes are not always important, but let's think about it. |
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Anyway, the times on day 2 were generally quicker than on day 1 and the best time from Brazil was 48.439. Who do you think set that? Circuit knowledge is not really a factor, because Silverstone National must be one of the simplest tracks in the world to learn. |
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It's a team effort - Brazil can put whichever Brazilians they wish in the car.
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