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Nelson Piquet Jr., has been warned that he needs to improve and quickly or his future in Formula One is in doubt.

The young Brazilian driver has had a bad start to the 2008 season, especially the last two races where in Turkey, he only managed to qualify in seventeenth position.

Steve Nielsen, the Sporting Director at Renault said “Well, it is obviously his first season in F1.  We saw last year with Heikki, he had a difficult start to the season and then he was able to turn around and I think Nelson has to do the same.”

“Nelson had a good race in Barcelona, unfortunately he made a mistake, but the Friday, (and) Saturday in qualifying, certainly, he did an excellent job and then made a mistake in the race.  So I think rather than say he’s had a disastrous start to the season, it’s a bit of a curate’s egg - there are good bits and bad bits.  But he needs to start having more good bits than the bad bits, and he needs to start and he needs to start doing that as soon as he can because F1 is a business, it’s a very cut throat business, and if people don’t deliver they go the obvious way.”

Mr Nielsen added “But I’m sure Nelson can turn it around.  We have seen in testing and in Barcelona he has got the speed, he just needs to concentrate and focus and make sure he turns it into results.”