Shortly before he stepped out to talk to Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, Piquet was surprised to be told he wasn’t allowed to talk about the the championship, which had just been won by Sebastian Vettel.
“They said the championship was not decided in that moment,” explained Piquet. “You have to wait for maybe February to see if the car was not out of regulation.”
“The thing is too complicated. I said ‘Come on, everybody knows the guy won the championship, everybody knows Alonso lost the championship’. And the guy was screaming in my ear ‘don’t talk about the championship!’.”
“They don’t let you tell nothing,” he continued. “You cannot talk about the championship, you cannot talk about anything, you cannot swear, you cannot say nothing… and I said ‘shut up’ and ask what I want’.