Piquet and Salazar Have a Bit of Biffo
Submitted by Rich Fowler on June 2, 2009 – 8:19 AMOne Comment
Back in 1982 Nelson Piquet is driving for Brabham as the current world champ. Chilean racer Eliseo Salazar is a back marker who clearly should have gotten out of the way.
The result is a crash and bit of good old fashion biffo.
Quite frankly I would like to see more of it.
From memory, the Brabham team started to introduce a strategic pit-stop strategy in mid 1982, the first time that had happened in the modern era, which has obviously continued to this day.
That is why Piquet was trying to pass the lowly Salazar, who had completed 17 laps to Piquet’s 18 at the time of the incident. Piquet had stretched out to a good lead with a lighter fuel load from the start, pitted, and was lapping Salazar again.
This is the GP where Didier Pironi had that huge crash in the wet after qualifying the Ferrari on pole, and the pole grid slot was left vacant for the race in his absence.