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Another Piquet junior steps closer to F1

Yet another driver with a famous surname is moving up the racing ladder towards Formula 1. In 2014, Max Verstappen used the European F3 team owned by Dutchman Frits van Amersfoort as his springboard into formula one this year. In its German F4 outfit, van Amersfoort has this year been running Mick Schumacher, the teenage son of the F1 legend Michael. And now Pedro Piquet, the son of Brazilian triple world champion Nelson and brother of former Renault driver Nelson jr, has been signed up by van Amersfoort. Piquet is the reigning back-to-back Brazilian F3 champion, who will now take on the category's premier European series, which many now regard as a solid feeder series to F1. 'It's nice...
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