The divorce that ended a once perfect motorsport marriage

Sometimes even the most perfectly drawn-up partnerships turn out to be complete failures. Before reaching the two-season milestone, Jaguar has parted ways with Nelson Piquet Jr. It's a case of what could have been, for both parties

Alex Kalinauckas Apr 3, 2019, 12:29 PM

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After just one and half seasons, the relationship between Nelson Piquet Jr and the Jaguar ABB FIA Formula E team is over.

It all seemed so promising ahead of the 2017/18 season when Piquet had made a high-profile move to Jaguar, which was coming off its disastrous first campaign in the electric championship.

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Author Alex Kalinauckas

Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.

A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.