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GPBlog's Top 50 drivers in 50 days - #14 - Nelson Piquet
Hello and welcome back to GPBlog’s countdown to the Australian Grand Prix. We’re only two weeks away now from the start of the 2020 season, so let’s continue with our countdown! Yesterday we looked at Mika Hakkinen, and today we’ll be going back a decade or so and looking at triple champ Nelson Piquet. After a terrific year in British Formula 3, Piquet made the step to F1 for the 1978 German Grand Prix with Ensign. He then raced three times in a private McLaren before finishing the season with Brabham. He signed permanently with Brabham in 1979 and often qualified well, but was let down by reliability and several crashes. When Niki Lauda left with two races to go,...
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