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Former racing champ Piquet loses driving license

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-07-31 08:41

SAO PAULO - Three-time Formula One champion Nelson Piquet began taking a
driving education course on Monday in Brazil after having his license
revoked for racking up too many traffic violations, local media reported.

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.

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