With his father making the media headlines in recent weeks, Crash.net takes a look back at the controversy that ended Nelson Piquet Jr’s F1 career in 2009.
Nelson Piquet has made the headlines after calling seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton a racist name. Here's a look back at Piquet's career and his current links to the pinnacle of motorsport.
The Jaguar Racing Formula E team has set “a very clear goal” to score regular podiums across the 2018/19 season in a bid to build on its season four achievements.
Nelson Piquet Jr. says Formula 1’s proposed future design concepts for 2021 have been effectively “copied” from Formula E, adding it highlights the impact the all-electric series is having on motorsport.
Nelson Piquet Jr. believes Jaguar faces extra pressure for this weekend's Formula E race in Marrakesh after recording its best results in the series to date in Hong Kong last month.
Felipe Massa believes that the 2008 F1 title fight could have worked out differently had it not been for Renault's antics at the inaugural Singapore Grand Prix.
Felipe Massa recalls the first-ever Singapore Grand Prix with less affection than most after losing a potential victory in a race he claims was 'false'.
David Coulthard has expressed both surprise and frustration that Nelson Piquet Jr was not punished for his part in the Singapore race-fixing row that marred the second running of the event at the end of September.
Felipe Massa afforded Nelson Piquet Jr a cursory handshake when the pair met at a Brazilian kart circuit this week, but repeated the claim that his countryman's 'accident' in last year's Singapore Grand Prix cost him the F1 world title.
Williams technical director Patrick Head has admitted that he, and others with him, thought that there was something odd about Renault's strategy in last year's Singapore Grand Prix, but insists that he would be bad for Formula One if the squad was found to have 'fixed' the race.
The Renault team has revealed that it is to seek legal redress against the Piquet family amid what it claims are attempts to use suspicions over last year's Singapore Grand Prix as a means to blackmail individuals within the organisation.
Fernando Alonso has claimed that, had his Renault team instigated extreme tactics to enable him to win last year's Singapore Grand Prix, he was unaware of them.
S?bastien Bourdais admitted that he was pleased to have notched up a point in what he considers to be his 'home' grand prix in Monaco in the absence of the French race from the Formula 1 calendar - and Scuderia Toro Rosso hope the self-confidence boost from the result will help the record-breakin
Despite a hugely impressive GP2 Series campaign, Renault test driver Lucas di Grassi has admitted that his only chance of graduating to a Formula 1 race seat with the R?gie next year is if Nelsinho Piquet is no longer there.
Nelsinho Piquet has been lauded by his Renault team after producing the drive of his fledgling Formula 1 career to finish up on the podium in the German Grand Prix - from all the way down in 17th spot on the starting grid.
It may only be for the annual Bavaria City Racing event on the streets of Rotterdam, and because he is Dutch, but Robert Doornbos' appearance behind the wheel of a Renault F1 car can only heap further pressure on Nelson Piquet Jr.
Nelson Piquet Jr has claimed that next year's Formula One cars may not be the test of skill a lot of insiders are suggesting, after comparing last week's Renault test to his memories of GP2.
Nelson Piquet Jr. has revealed that he wants to step up to Formula One by 2007. Piquet Jr., the son of three times F1 world champion, Nelson Piquet, will race in the new GP2 series this season that replaces Formula 3000 as the main support bill on an F1 weekend.