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Brazil, the country that produced Formula One champions Ayrton Senna, Nelson Piquet and Emerson Fittipaldi, could be without a driver on the grid next season. Joe Carter Blue Jays Jersey .Brazilian Felipe Massa is leaving F1 at the end of the season after 15 years on the circuit, which peaked in 2008 when he missed out on the drivers championship by a point. His last race is Sunday in Brazil, where he recalls watching Senna and Piquet in his younger years and dreaming of emulating them.Massa is leaving and Felipe Nasr of Sauber is at risk of not getting a contract next season. Nasr is depending on his main sponsor, Banco do Brasil, to find him a ride. Last season he scored 27 points, but in the 2016 season he hasnt earned a point.There are no other Brazilian drivers in Europe being considered for a place on the grid next year.Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg, the favorite to claim the season title on Sunday, says Brazil needs to be in the mix.Your country deserves to have a good driver in a competitive car, Rosberg said this week.Since 1972, Fittipaldi, Piquet and Senna have marked their names as F1 season champions eight times.But in the last decade Brazilian drivers have struggled to even to win a race. The last home triumph was in 2008 at Interlagos, but it was bittersweet.Massa took first place in his Ferrari, but lost the season title to British driver Lewis Hamilton in a McLaren.It will be very upsetting to see no Brazilian drivers in Formula One, said Massa, whose best results this season are two fifth places. We Brazilians have a lot of history in this sport. It is a tough moment. We dont have a driver that is about to break through.The last Brazilian to win an F1 race was Rubens Barrichello, who won at the Italian Grand Prix in September 2009.Since then, Brazilians havent had much to celebrate. And even local executives of the sport believe the current trend wont end quickly.We do have Brazilian talent that could be in Formula One, but these days you need a ton of money that they dont have now, Waldner Bernardo, an official at Brazils motorsport confederation, told The Associated Press. We have at least six drivers in Europe that could be on the Formula One grid now, but they are not wealthy enough to be.One of the drivers Bernardo has faith in is 18-year-old Formula 3 driver Pedro Piquet, son of the three-time world champion Nelson.His talent and youth, Bernardo says, are signs that the Brazilian void in Formula 1 could be short-lived.Gerson Campos, who hosts a popular motorsport TV program, disagrees.None of these Brazilians abroad showed they have enough talent. If they were football strikers, they would be good to play here, but theyre far from the Barcelona level, he said. If one of those drivers goes to Formula 1, he will stay for one or two years. We have a serious problem in fostering talents that can attract big money now. And that combination is essential today.The absence of a competitive Brazilian driver has hurt the ratings for TV Globo, the countrys main broadcaster.Last year Globo shifted the United States and Mexico races to its cable channel. This year it did the same, reflecting F1s sinking popularity in the country. Teoscar Hernandez Jersey .ca looks back at the stories and moments that made the year memorable. Ken Giles Jersey .C. -- Calgarys Kevin Koe did it the hard way again. http://www.bluejaysonline.com/blue-jays-devon-travis-jersey/ .Y. -- Knicks coach Mike Woodson said Wednesday that J. Misbah-ul-Haq, the Pakistan captain, has said that his team went on making mistakes that led them to miss out on a chance to remain unbeaten against the visitors. They had whitewashed them in the ODIs and T20Is and won the first two Tests, before being upset in the third Test in Sharjah.Pakistan put up only 281 in their first innings. Four players made half-centuries but none of them got past 74 and scored a hundred. In the second innings, they lost four of their top five batsmen before the deficit of 56 could be erased.Then, having recovered with the help of Azhar Alis 91, Pakistan lost their last five wickets for 33 runs and could only set a target of 153. West Indies won the match with five wickets and more than two sessions to spare.It was disappointing that we didnt win, Misbah said. Overall, we didnt play up to our standards. Our batting was bad, and so was our fielding.West Indies played with discipline and we went on making mistakes and lost it. Its a setback losing a Test match in your own conditions, where you are so good, and to a team ranked lower than us. No matter how good the opposition plays, you really need to come back strongly after that.After the fourth days play, Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur had felt his team was fatigued and that was why they werent as good as they could have been. Misbah, though, put the loss down to complacency.We have one thing in mind - to treat every game as equally important, he said. When you are the No. 1 or No. 2 team, you have to play every match at a certain standard to keep that reputation.When you have a longish series, sometimes, you [tend to] relax and I think this is exactly what happened with us. We probably didnt respect the opposition, which is why we were troubled in early matches and made a lot of mitakes in this third Test.However, going into the next two series [in New Zealand and Australia] we know how tough things will be. We also know that we are capable [of winning], and when we play at our full potential we can win matches anywhere in the world. We have lost some momentum with this loss, but we have to regain it and work very hard for it.OOne of the opportunities Pakistan had to take control in Sharjah was when the chase began. Justin Smoak Blue Jays Jersey. Despite the smallish target, West Indies appeared nervous. Opener Leon Johnson began his innings by edging twice to the slip cordon in two overs. Both were put down. Misbah said such sloppiness was the result of a lack of specialists.As far as the slip cordon is concerned, unfortunately, we have to make some changes to it. Only Younis Khan and Asad Shafiq are regulars. Azhar was hit on the hand so he couldnt field in the slips, Misbah said. We are trying to train specialist slip fielders. Only when you have specialist fielders will you see improvement. So we are focusing on that. Misbah didnt appreciate the flak his team received on social media. At times, we read on Twitter that a slip catch is a sitter. Only someone who has not played cricket can say that. Slip catches are never easy, even the best slip fielders drop catches.The other issue Pakistan have is the balance of their XI. They are keen to have an allrounder at No. 7, which was why they had drafted Mohammad Nawaz into the squad. But the left-arm spinner bowled only 15 overs in Sharjah, and didnt impress with the bat, even though he was involved in a 41-run stand for the sixth wicket with Azhar.Its Nawazs first series so he needs time, Misbah said We need someone at No. 7 who can bat and bowl, and he has the potential to fill that role for us like Jason Holder does for West Indies. He works very hard, he just needs some time.It was learnt that a day before the third Test, Pakistan were set to go in without their frontline left-arm spinner Zulfiqar Babar. But the team management changed its mind before the toss. Zulfiqar was used for 24 overs in the match, but only three of them came in the second innings. When asked why he was under-bowled, Misbah took aim at the surface in Sharjah.Take the answer from the groundsman who made the pitch. If the ball doesnt turn even on the fifth day, then how will you bowl spinners? ' ' '