Nelson Piquet is a Brazilian racing driver born August 17, 1952, in Rio de Janeiro, who won three Formula One World Drivers Championships, in 1981 and 1983 with Brabham and in 1987 with Williams, taking 23 Grand Prix victories, 60 podium finishes and 24 pole positions across a fourteen season career from 1978 to 1991. Before Formula One he dominated Formula Three racing, and after his Grand Prix career he competed at the Indianapolis 500 in 1992 and 1993 and at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1996 and 1997, later founding the GPS vehicle tracking company Autotrac in 1992.
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Career HighlightPiquet won three Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, in 1981, 1983 and 1987. 1 Classification
Competition Category FAQs
Why did Nelson Piquet race under the name Piquet?
He first used his mother's maiden name to hide his karting from a father who did not approve.
Piquet started kart racing at the age of 14, but his father did not approve of his racing career. To hide his identity he used his mother's maiden name Piquet, which is of French origin, misspelt as Piket.
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Nelson Piquet Souto Maior (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈnɛwsõ piˈke], born 17 August 1952) is a Brazilian former racing driver and businessman, who competed in Formula One from 1978 to 1991.
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Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Piquet Early life section, opening sentence (birth clause)
Piquet was born 17 August 1952, in Rio de Janeiro, then the capital of Brazil
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Piquet Early life section, opening sentence (birth year)
Piquet was born 17 August 1952, in Rio de Janeiro, then the capital of Brazil
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Piquet lead, opening sentence (nationality clause)
is a Brazilian former racing driver and businessman, who competed in Formula One from 1978 to 1991.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Piquet lead, career-achievement sentence
Piquet won three Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in 1981, 1983, and 1987, and won 23 Grands Prix across 14 seasons.
Competed In: Indianapolis 500, Lead
After retiring from Formula One, Piquet tried his hand at the Indianapolis 500 for two years.
Plays: Motor Racing, lead paragraph, plays
Nelson Piquet Souto Maior (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈnɛwsõ piˈke], born 17 August 1952) is a Brazilian former racing driver and businessman, who competed in Formula One from 1978 to 1991.
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