on track.
He would need that performance at the final race at Battersea. Starting back in 14th position (due to an unexpected wet qualifying), Nelson had is work cut out to retain any hope of securing his championship.
If I am honest, Nelson looked and sounded like a man already half-accepting defeat, yet something kicked in once the visor went down. Moves that demanded to be made were done so with clinical execution, while his rivals began to tighten-up. Much like Jenson Button’s championship defining race in Sao Paulo 2009, the skills learned during years spent in the motor sport wilderness were revealing themselves at this most crucial of moments.
So ‘in the zone’ was Piquet at race’s end that he had to be told twice he had become the first ever Formula E World Champion. Even then he could scarcely believe it.
I’ll put my hand up and say without reservation I was a former Piquet critic. I am overjoyed to have been proven wrong. It’s moments like these that make the motor sport journey all the more worthwhile.