Anybody else old enough to remember Nelson Piquet? (Brazil F1 driver)

[LINUS]

This is either really wrong or a good sign nobody is above the law:

I doubt Ayrton would have gotten the tickets, but that's my view.
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Former racing champ loses driving license Tue Jul 31, 11:10 AM ET



SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Three-time Formula One champion Nelson Piquet began taking a driving education course on Monday in Brazil after having his license revoked for racking up too many traffic violations, local media reported.

Piquet, one of just three Brazilians to win the Formula One world championship, lost his license in June after receiving a slew of speeding and parking tickets. His wife, Viviane, also had her license taken away for bad driving and joined her husband in the mandatory driver awareness course.

"I think we have to pay for our mistakes," Piquet, 54, told local news agency G1. "It's not even just a speeding problem. I got tickets for all kinds of reasons, for things like parking where I shouldn't."

Piquet and his wife, whose 21-year-old son is an up-and-coming test car driver for the Renault Formula One team, will have to attend 30 hours of classes over eight days and pass an exam before regaining their licenses.

Piquet is one of the best-known race car drivers to come out of Brazil, having won the Formula One championship in 1981, 1983 and 1987.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070731/od_nm/brazil_motorracing_piquet_dc

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I bet you big money Senna would have never had to sit in class.

[Jon325i]

Too funny - but not a surprise really. The man has speed and power flowing through his veins.....for him, every drive must be a race (even the ones to the grocery store) :-P

Jon

[LINUS]

Too funny - but not a surprise really. The man has speed and power flowing through his veins.....for him, every drive must be a race (even the ones to the grocery store) :-P

Jon

This is what I'm sayin' - He's got it in him, and I bet a sack o' rolls he isn't driving a Diahatstu. That boy has a quality set of wheels, and he enjoys his drives. I dare say he is probably pretty safe at what he chooses too, since no sane person has a deathwish in traffic, inclimate weather, etc.

Lame by me.

[a3ternus]

This is what I'm sayin' - He's got it in him, and I bet a sack o' rolls he isn't driving a Diahatstu.

He s got it all right,but not just the "always racing" bit...
He says he cant park in the right spot either.
Anyway,it s really funny in a way,but isnt real life always like this? :D
N.