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GP2: Name change for Piquet GP by Virgil Ellipse
1st Dec 2009
GP2 squad Piquet GP has changed its name to Rapax Team ahead of the new season, in an attempt to distance itself from Half-Nelson Piquet, the mendacious, duplicitous blackguard who once disgraced its cars.

Or possibly just because they've found a new title sponsor.

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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.