Post by: K Frame on July 31, 2007, 07:41:39 AM
Piquet, one of just three Brazilians to win the Formula One world championship, lost his license in June after receiving a slew of speeding and parking tickets. His wife, Viviane, also had her license taken away for bad driving and joined her husband in the mandatory driver awareness course.
"I think we have to pay for our mistakes," Piquet, 54, told local news agency G1. "It's not even just a speeding problem. I got tickets for all kinds of reasons, for things like parking where I shouldn't."
Piquet and his wife, whose 21-year-old son is an up-and-coming test car driver for the Renault Formula One team, will have to attend 30 hours of classes over eight days and pass an exam before regaining their licenses.
Piquet is one of the best-known race car drivers to come out of Brazil, having won the Formula One championship in 1981, 1983 and 1987.
Post by: Tallpine on July 31, 2007, 07:59:02 AM
I know they can "boot" your car, or even bust down your door at 3am and shoot you for unpaid parking tickets, but not take away your drivers license
Post by: K Frame on July 31, 2007, 08:17:27 AM
There's nothing in the article that says that the parking tickets had any bearing on his losing his license. They may have, they may not have.
Post by: Tallpine on July 31, 2007, 08:45:40 AM
Really, it's not so humiliating ... he knows how to drive fast - he just doesn't know how to drive slow
