Nelson Piquet Jr has warned formula one’s backmarker teams to not bother offering him a debut drive for the 2008 season.
The Brazilian test driver, linked with a possible move to a racing cockpit next year with Renault or Williams, revealed that he is only interested in joining a team that is capable of scoring regular points.
“I want to race for a top team,” the 22-year-old told f1today.nl, explaining that he had not worked his entire career to finish last in F1.
“From the outset I want to have the opportunity to collect points.
“Some people think it is important to gain experience with a small team. I see it differently.
“You only have to look at (Lewis) Hamilton; on his first attempt with McLaren he was right up there.”
Piquet finished second to Hamilton in the feeder series GP2 last year, thereafter agreeing to emulate Fernando Alonso and Heikki Kovalainen by sitting out a single season as Renault test driver.
