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Tuesday, 19 January 2010 03:00 |
 Piquet  Nelson Piquet will return to competitive action this weekend (22-24 January) as he takes part in the 1000 km de Interlagos in Brazil, and will follow that up the next weekend (29-31 January) with the Free State 500, a brand new stock car event in South Africa.
First up Nelson will tackle the 2010 edition of the 1000 km de Interlagos, the headline event in the GP Cidade de São Paulo celebrations commemorating the city. The race, which will take place on 24 January, is set to take in 233 laps of the 4.309km track, and take around 8 hours of endurance racing in prototype cars.
Nelson will compete in a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X in the ‘Old Boys’ team, together with Leandro de Almeida and Eduardo de Souza Ramos.
 After the conclusion of the race, the 24-year-old Brazilian will be hot footing it across to South Africa for the inaugural Free State 500 at the Phakisa Freeway near Welkom.
The event will see NASCAR type American stock cars racing in South Africa for the first time on the country’s only banked oval track.
Free Practice will take place on Friday 29 January, with qualifying on Saturday and the 207 lap 500 km race on Sunday.
Nelson Piquet:
“It’s going to be a really great couple of weeks, I can’t wait to start racing again. Both weekends will be very different but both will be a test of endurance and will be really competitive. The event is South Africa will give me some good experience of oval racing in a NASCAR type car ahead of my programme this year in the USA. It would be great to start the year with a couple of wins!”
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