Piquet Jr to look to Indycar for second chance?

What Nelson Jr does happens every weekend in motorsports.

In 2004 Dale Jr admitted to intentionally spinning his car out at Bristol to get a caution and got a $10k slap on the wrist. In 2002 Rubens Barrichello nearly stopped on the final straight in Austria so that Shumacher could get the win. Rubens got screwed again this year at the Spanish Grand Prix. This year Bobby Labonte sat on the track at Infieon to bring out a caution that probably cast Robby Gordon that race.

Team orders happen, a lot

Did Nelson screw up, big big time. But sports, and most everything, is about money. Look, Vick did a far far far worse thing, and presto, He's with the perfect team for him.Personally I hope they fail miserabley, and if Piquet came to the IRL, I wouldn't root for him either, but he is talented enough and has enough money to race here, for better or worse. Beggers(IRL) can't be choosers.

He's not that bad! Ok, admittedly he's never been one of my favourite drivers, and especially not now (though full marks for getting rid of Flav), but he does still have a better record than a lot of drivers in the series, and I don't just mean Duno!

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Originally Posted by garyshell

Let's see you sit in the car and tell Flavio no you aren't going to take one for the team. It's easy being the Monday morning quarterback, isn't it. And don't get me started on the Pete Rose thing, I live in Cincinnati. We are pissed that there are a bunch of steroid jockeys in the hall of fame and Pete is standing on the outside. It is one of the worst cases of hypocrisy I have ever seen.

Gary

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c'mon gary. that isn't fair. it isn't as simple as taking one for the team. it starts with a lack of integrity, on all of the people who are involved. two of them are ruined in the sport forever and the other is trying to get a drive somewhere. this generation of drivers, athletes, entertainers and people who get paid to sport for a living are hopelessly lost anyways. we just have to accept that. i think he's right. you have to draw a line somewhere. compromising the integrity of the sport has to be the most heinous thing you can do to a sport. if i thought for a second that stuff like this wasn't isolated, i'd quite watching it. i watch for the fight, the competiton and the drama. not to see guys win because of a "lucky" caution. if i wanted that, i'd watch nascar.

Sitting in the car, if your manager and team boss, especially Flavio Briatore, tells you to crash on purpose, the first thing that comes to your mind is to do what your told. You don't have time to go through the pro's and con's of doing it.

On top of that, if he doesn't do it, then he can never prove that he was asked to do it by Flavio. And if he doesn't do it, Flavio, who is your manager probably for a long time, buries you so far in F3 or F2000 and makes your life a living hell.

I don't like that he did it either, but in the heat of the moment, he probably didn't think he had much choice.

If he could put together a budget to add a car to Panther Racing or AGR, I wouldn't be pissed.

I don't like what Nelson did at Singapore, I think it's a terrible mark on his character. But the reality is that, at a minimum, he would be better than a third of the current IRL grid, and in a good car could easily compete for top 10s. So if it's him instead of one of the not-to-be-named backmarkers, I think I'd take him. Sato will also be a nice addition with DF if that comes to pass.

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Originally Posted by Chamoo

Sitting in the car, if your manager and team boss, especially Flavio Briatore, tells you to crash on purpose, the first thing that comes to your mind is to do what your told. You don't have time to go through the pro's and con's of doing it.

On top of that, if he doesn't do it, then he can never prove that he was asked to do it by Flavio. And if he doesn't do it, Flavio, who is your manager probably for a long time, buries you so far in F3 or F2000 and makes your life a living hell.

I don't like that he did it either, but in the heat of the moment, he probably didn't think he had much choice.

If he could put together a budget to add a car to Panther Racing or AGR, I wouldn't be pissed.

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There's the issue of ethics and the issue of intelligence. I don't think Nelson exhibited either in his decision to basically crash to keep his job, and actually putting himself in harms way. It was a desperate move, supposedly due to an immense pressure he felt to get his contract renewed for another season. To me though, that doesn't even make a lot of sense, because if they had such little respect for him that getting a renewal was based on fixing a race, than why should he expect to get top equipment the following season. It should have been clear that at best he would get a renewal then be the #2 driver always until his contract ran out.

If I were a team owner, I'd aknowledge that what Renault did was wrong and he was right to have come forward; however, the fact that he didn't come forward until after he was fired leads me to believe he's the kind of guy that holds a grudge. I don't think I want him working for me.

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Originally Posted by garyshell

Let's see you sit in the car and tell Flavio no you aren't going to take one for the team. It's easy being the Monday morning quarterback, isn't it. And don't get me started on the Pete Rose thing, I live in Cincinnati. We are pissed that there are a bunch of steroid jockeys in the hall of fame and Pete is standing on the outside. It is one of the worst cases of hypocrisy I have ever seen.

Gary

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Read the transcripts....Nelson put the crash idea to Pat Symonds and "Witness X".

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Originally Posted by MDS

So if he buys a ride at a second teir team, ::: cough :::: AGR, and adds a full-time car to the grid I don't so much care how its paid for. Every little thing helps.

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AGR

LOL!

Michael Andretti will call Jr to spin/crash to bring out a caution at Sonoma again and let Golden Boy Marco get a win!