 Flavio Briatore (right) is Piquet's new team boss |
New Renault test driver Nelson Piquet Jr will make his debut for the Renault F1 team at Silverstone next week. Piquet, runner-up to Lewis Hamilton in the GP2 series, will tests at the Northamptonshire circuit with Renault's 2007 race driver Heikki Kovalainen.
Piquet, whose father Nelson won three F1 championips, said: "I am really looking forward to my first test.
"It will be a great chance to learn as much as I can and get to know everybody at the team."
The 21-year-old, who has also driven in the A1 GP series, added: "I like Silverstone very much and I have driven there a lot.
"So it's good that I don't have to worry about learning the track, I can just focus on driving a front-running car like the R26 for the first time.
"I am happy that I am getting three full days of testing because it will be more car time than any other F1 car I've driven."
Renault will also use former F1 driver Ricardo Zonta in their testing programme.
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