{"id":4330,"date":"2010-04-12T06:48:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4330"},"modified":"2010-04-12T06:40:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:40:24","slug":"piquet-tips-former-teammate-alonso-for-2010-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/piquet-tips-former-teammate-alonso-for-2010-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Piquet tips former teammate Alonso for 2010 title"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Asked to nominate his favourite to win the 2010 world championship, Nelson Piquet said he would bet money on Fernando Alonso.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of last year&#8217;s &#8216;crashgate&#8217; scandal, the former Renault driver is now building a stock car career in America.<\/p>\n<p>He has also raced stock cars in Brazil, and later this year will return to a European track when he drives a Ferrari 430 in the Open GT race at Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>In between stints in a Brazilian stock car last weekend, the 24-year-old Brazilian told Globo: &#8220;I cannot say that I will never return to formula one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Piquet said he rates Alonso for the 2010 title after spending the 28 races of his entire F1 career as the Spaniard&#8217;s teammate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was such a good driver that, to try to get to his level, I had to push myself in ways I did not know even existed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked to nominate his favourite to win the 2010 world championship, Nelson Piquet said he would bet money on Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,149,5261,5340,285],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4331,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions\/4331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}