Nelsinho Piquet

Spanish GP - Renault - Preview The Renault team prepares for the fourth round of the championship: the Spanish Grand Prix…
 

Renault concluded its four-day test at the Circuit de Catalunya today as heavy rain showers hit the Spanish circuit. As a result the team

Nelsinho Piquet is cautious about how much Renault can improve thanks to the new updates to be introduced this week, although the the Brazilian admitted the car is already better.
Renault, who have endured a difficult start to the season, are pinning their hopes for the year on all the improvements they will introduce in this […]

Q. How are the new updates working?
Nelsinho Piquet: We are starting to put them slowly. Obviously we have four days of testing so we are going to test things step by step every day. But obviously it`s not a case of putting them on the car and making them work straight away. You need to […]

After a difficult start to his Formula One career, Nelson Piquet says he must emulate Heikki Kovalainen and now begin his rise up the grid.Kovalainen, the Finnish rookie who switched to McLaren for 2008, was slammed by Renault boss Flavio Briatore following a dire debut in Australia last year.Piquet had a similarly grim Melbourne opener […]

Force India team owner Vijay Mallya defended Adrian Sutil on Sunday, after a third consecutive poor weekend for the German driver.While his veteran team-mate Giancarlo Fisichella drew praise on Sunday, Sutil got caught up in the first lap chaos and finished the race dead last and two laps down.Following two previous difficult weekends, where the […]

Brazilian rookie Nelson Piquet drew strong support from his Renault Formula One team in Bahrain on Sunday despite having finished only one of his three races to date and scored no points.
“I think he has had a damn good start,” engineering head Pat Symonds told reporters at Sakhir. “It`s been rocky, but that only goes […]

Flavio Briatore said in Bahrain that he expects Nelson Piquet to begin shining for Renault at this Grand Prix event.Following a dire debut for Piquet in Australia, and a better showing in Malaysia, the team boss said Sakhir should be the place where the 22-year-old rookie is able to demonstrate his true talents.“For a young […]

Following the turmoil inside the McLaren team in 2007, Fernando Alonso`s current team-mate says he is getting along well with the temperamental double world champion. Brazilian rookie Nelson Piquet, the son of the eponymous triple world champion, told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo that Alonso is a