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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 68. Chapters: Affonso Giaffone, Alexandre Sarnes Negrao, Ana Beatriz, Andre Negrao, Bruno Andrade (racing driver), Bruno Junqueira, Carlos Guerrero, Carlos Iaconelli, Christian Fittipaldi, Claudio Cantelli, Clemente de Faria, Jr., Cristiano da Matta, Daniel Cingolani, Danilo Dirani, Diego Nunes, Duarte Ferreira, Duda Pamplona, Eduardo Azevedo, Emiliano Spataro, Esteban Tuero, Fabiano Machado, Fabio Beretta, Facundo Crovo, Felipe Guimaraes, Fernando Rees, Gabriel Furlan, Guillermo Maldonado, Hoover Orsi, Ianina Zanazzi, Jaime Camara, Jaime Melo, Joao Barion, Joao Paulo de Oliveira, Jose Luis Di Palma, Leonardo Cordeiro, Leonardo de Souza, Lucas di Grassi, Lucas Foresti, Luiz Fernando Uva, Luiz Razia, Mario Moraes, Mario Romancini, Martin Basso, Matias Russo, Max Wilson, Nelson Merlo, Nelson Piquet, Jr., Nicolas Filiberti, Omar Martinez, Oswaldo Negri, Pablo Perez Companc, Pedro Diniz, Pedro Nunes (racing driver), Pietro Fantin, Rafael Suzuki, Ricardo Risatti, Ricardo Zonta, Riccardo Romagnoli, Rodrigo Ribeiro, Rodrigo Sperafico, Tarso Marques, Thiago Medeiros, Tuka Rocha, Victor Guerin (racing driver), Vitor Meira, Walter Grubmuller, Yann Cunha. Excerpt: Nelson Angelo Tamsma Piquet Souto Maior (born July 25, 1985 in Heidelberg, West Germany), also known as Nelson Piquet Junior or Nelsinho Piquet, is a Brazilian stock car racing driver and former Formula 1 driver. He currently drives the No. 30 Qualcomm Chevrolet for Turner Motorsports in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and the Nationwide Series. Piquet is the son of three-time Formula One world champion Nelson Piquet, one of Brazil's most successful F1 drivers. In the 2005 and 2006 seasons he raced in the GP2 Series, taking a win in Belgium in 2005 and claiming 2nd place in the series in 2006. He was signed as test driver for Renault Formula One team for the 2007 season, and was promoted to the race team for 2008, before being dropped midway through the 2009 season. After losing his drive, it emerged that he had, under instruction from senior members of the team, crashed deliberately at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix to help his teammate, Fernando Alonso, win the race; the resulting scandal became one of the most significant in the sport's history. Piquet's parents separated soon after he was born, and he lived in Monaco with his Dutch mother, Sylvia Tamsma, until he was eight years old. He then moved to live in Brazil with his father. "They kind of swapped me. My mother wanted me to get to know my father, she wanted me to know Brazil and the language, and she realized life in Brazil would be better for a child." Piquet has two sisters, Kelly and Julia, and four brothers, Geraldo, Laszlo, Pedro and Marco. He lived in Brasilia and attended the American School of Brasilia until he was 16 years old, when he decided to pursue his racing career full time. Piquet's racing career started in 1993 in Brazilian karting, where he would stay until 2001 when he moved to Formula Three Sudamericana. His father's wealth enabled him to race for his own team, a practice he continued until he left GP2 Series. He raced in part of the 2001 season there, staying for 2002 winning the
