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NASCAR: Piquet to test ASSCAR truck by Virgil Ellipse
6th Oct 2009
Half-Nelson Piquet is set to test a Toyota Tundra ASSCAR truck next Monday, as the former Yellow* grand prix driver looks outside Formula One for opportunities to fuck up other people's careers.

Many people had felt aggrieved that Piquet waltzed away unpunished from the race-fixing scandal in which he played a central role but if the only drive now open to the ex-F1 racer is hauling a Toyota truck around a succession of anonymous ovals, then perhaps justice will, in some small way, have been served.


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KEY TO SERIES NAMES (hovering over the abbreviations in the table above also shows the full series name)
F1Formula 1
The world's most prominent, most expensive and frequently most tedious single-seater series.
F3Formula 3
The top national single-seater motor-racing series. Or the bottom international one.
GP2GP2
The former Formula 2, now twice-renamed and god alone knows why.
NASCARNASCAR
Umbrella term for a number of bafflingly popular Stateside stock car series.