Comments on: Piquet and Salazar Have a Bit of Biffo http://www.motorsportretro.com/2009/06/piquet-and-salazar-have-a-little-punch-up/ Classic motorsport, cars, motorcycles and gear Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:33:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Speed54 http://www.motorsportretro.com/2009/06/piquet-and-salazar-have-a-little-punch-up/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Speed54 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:02:38 +0000 http://174.36.196.139/~motorspo/?p=680#comment-75 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. 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.

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