Word: piquet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...track acquitted itself fairly well in its first test. The top eight finishers averaged more than 96 m.p.h., faster than established events in Monaco and Montreal. The fifth-place finish by Brazilian Nelson Piquet was enough to give him the 1981 world championship. As for high rollers, Sports Book Manager Jimmy Vaccaro observed: "The race just doesn't draw the breed of gambler the fights do. Boxing people bet everything; a race fan plays twenty-one with his wife...