Former world champion Emerson Fittipaldi says Renault boss Flavio Briatore
"likes the idea" of giving Brazilian rookie Nelson Piquet Jr his grand prix
debut this year.source: GMMWe reported last week that 60-year-old Fittipaldi, who
won two drivers' titles in the 70s, thinks the team's young test driver is
"ready" to arrive on the grid.
Fittipaldi, the Brazilian veteran, knows
countryman
Piquet Jr well after running the 21-year-old - who is the son of the
triple world champion of the same name - in his A1 GP team.
Piquet
senior, meanwhile - a close friend of Fittipaldi's - was a guest of the Renault
team at Indianapolis last weekend.
Reuters quoted Fittipaldi as saying
this week: "I talked to Flavio Briatore in Canada. I said 'Flavio, you want to
put Nelsinho in immediately'.
"He likes the idea but he said 'but I want
my cars to be stronger for Nelson to be a competitor'.
"If I were Flavio
I'd put him in this year," Fittipaldi added.
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