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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.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. 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And yet for years after that fateful fall with the Flyers - a squad that also featured a young Dennis Seidenberg and an even younger Patrick Sharp - Handzus never got that chance to come back again. First round exits would follow in Los Angeles (twice) and San Jose and it appeared his career would wind down quietly without a chance to battle for the Cup. "Ive been on very good teams and I always felt that we have a chance," he said, "but we never got back. Its the reality of life." Fate would seemingly intercede on the first of April this spring. Searching for additional help down the middle and on the draw in their quest for a second Cup in four years, Chicago would send a fourth round pick to San Jose in exchange for the veteran centreman. An unheralded move at the time, Handzus is now the clubs trusted second line pivot, chipping in with nine points and about 16 minutes of ice in all situations during the postseason thus far. His long road just to get to this point has made the moment all the more special. "You think a little bit more about it," Handzus conceded on Friday afternoon, ahead of Game 2 at the United Center on Saturday, Chicago swiping the opener in triple overtime on Wednesday night. "Im 36, I dont know if I get a chance like that ever after [this]. [But] I dont try to put pressure on that; I just want to enjoy the moment." Handzus entered the league in the fall of 1998, joining a Blues squad that featured aging future Hall of Famers Grant Fuhr and Al MacInnnis, a star in his prime in Pierre Turgeon and a future Norris Trophy winner in Chris Pronger.dddddddddddd. Standing behind the bench for St. Louis was none other than Joel Quenneville, the current coach of the Blackhawks. 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"Hes a guy that you can depend on and Im sure thats why they brought him in," added Mayers, the only player, at age 38, with more years to his name than Handzus. Just 10-years-old in the Czech Republic when Handzus first entered the league with St. Louis, Frolik had no trouble recalling the once flowing locks that made Handzus so distinctive, a testament additionally to the place hed earned within the game. "Oh for sure," Frolik grinned. "It was huge once, a big afro. It was pretty funny. Hopefully one day we can see that again." Chicago would oust Los Angeles in five games earlier this month to secure the first trip to the Stanley Cup Final for Handzus, now sporting a tame hairdo in definite contrast to his younger self. Upon finally garnering such a chance, he had one thought. "I want to win a Cup," Handzus recalled of the moment the Blackhawks clinched. 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