27.11.2009
Nelson Piquet Jr has been invited by Felipe Massa to join his charity go-kart event at Florianopolis, Brazil this weekend. This will be the first time that Piquet has raced against many of his former F1 rivals since the torrid Singapore race fix saga, that saw Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds leave Renault’s F1 team earlier this year.
The ‘International Challenge of the Stars’ kart race features drivers such as Michael Schumacher, Rubens Barrichello, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Tony Kanaan, Giancarlo Fisichella, Antonio Pizzonia and Christian Fittipaldi. It will mark Massa’s own return to competitive racing since his life-threatening injury during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix.
To make the event more interesting, we have some behind-the-scenes pictures from Rubens Barrichello starting with a frightened Tony Kanaan travelling on the mini-bus to the press briefing. We’ll update this page with more images from the event as we receive them.
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- Driver Tony Kanaan seems woried about meeting the press.
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- The press conference – from the perspective of Rubens Barichello.
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- Rubens and Felipe
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- Lucas Di Grassi’s kart
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- Nelson Piquet Jr out on track
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- Massa exits the pit garages
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- Schumacher out on track
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- Rubens all suited up, with Tony Kanaan ‘helping’ his race engineer.
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- Schumacher praying that he’ll be the quickest German
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- Schumacher reviews setup with his race engineer
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- Live timing – Piquet isn’t doing too bad..
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- Michael Schumacher’s kart
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- Rubens gets ready for a practice session
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- Massa’s kart
About Steve Davies
Steve is a media, venture, and technology advisor and a former Partner at KPMG Consulting, PriceWaterhouse Coopers and Managing Partner at EIM - his clients range from global web and media companies to small start-ups. He formed Drivers Republic (DR) in 2007, the UK's first digital automotive magazine, with a team of EVO and Autocar writers before creating SkiddMark, and also writes as a guest contributor on Unruly Media’s Meme Machine blog and for Econsultancy’s digital marketing blog.
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