Nelsinho Piquet has admitted he has closed the door on formula one.<\/p>\n
The Brazilian’s grand prix career ended in shame after one and a half seasons two years ago, after being ousted by Flavio Briatore and then triggering the ‘crashgate’ scandal.<\/p>\n
Piquet, now 25, admitted to O Estado de S.Paulo that there were some early efforts to stay in F1 after that.<\/p>\n
“I talked to the guy who bought Toyota,” said Piquet, referring to Serbian Zoran Stefanovic who attempted to set up a team with some of the assets of the departed Toyota.<\/p>\n
“Bernie was helping me too.\u00a0 I talked to him (Stefanovic) until the new year, I thought he was serious.<\/p>\n
“It was after that I said, ‘Ok, I’m realistic, enough’.\u00a0 My dream was not to be just a part of F1, for the glamour — I wanted to do it right and be champion.<\/p>\n
“It didn’t happen,” added Piquet.<\/p>\n
As for returning to F1 one day, he explained: “That’s very complicated, even for such a guy as Michael Schumacher.\u00a0 So it’s not so easy to think about it.<\/p>\n
“Do I want to get back out there and face the same garbage and politics?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 F1 is spectacular to watch on TV, but now I’m only thinking about NASCAR.”<\/p>\n
As for his then teammate Fernando Alonso’s involvement in the crashgate scandal, Piquet concluded: “No.\u00a0 What happened was not his fault.”<\/p>\n
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