Nelson Piquet
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| First start: | 1978 German Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1991 Australian Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| 1978 Ensign • 1978 McLaren • 1978–1985 Brabham • 1986–1987 Williams • 1988–1989 Lotus • 1990–1991 Benetton | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | World Champion ( 1981 , 1983 , 1987 ) | ||||||||
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| World Cup points : | 485.5 | ||||||||
| Podiums : | 60 | ||||||||
| Leadership laps : | 1,603 over 7,605.9 km | ||||||||
Nelson Fredo Piquet Sotto Maior (known as Nelson Piquet , after his mother's maiden name; born August 17, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian automobile racing driver . Between 1978 and 1991 he competed in 204 Formula 1 Grand Prix races and was world champion three times .
Piquet was best known as the first Formula 1 world champion, who had won the title with a turbo engine (1983 with BMW ), as well as his sometimes extremely extroverted manner, with which he often tried to expose his opponents in public. Piquet's son Nelson Angelo also started in Formula 1 in 2008 and 2009.
Career start
Nelson Piquet started a classic Formula 1 career. At the age of twelve he was already driving a kart in a regional series. Piquet was supported financially by his parents, who thought the sport was just a hobby. After initial weakness, he was third in the Brazilian championship in 1968. Nevertheless, he continued to devote himself attentively to school and graduated from high school in 1970. In 1971 he became Brazilian champion and in 1972 he received a contract in Formula Super Vee, where he was regularly able to assert himself among the top ten. In 1977 he drove in the Italian Formula 3 championship and won two races in the first year. In 1978 he started in British Formula 3 , which he finished as a champion. Piquet's Formula 1 career began that same year at Ensign and BS Fabrications .
The years at Brabham
In 1979 he became a teammate of Niki Lauda at Brabham , who called him a "coming world champion". After Lauda's resignation, Piquet became the new number 1 at Brabham and in the following years developed a close working relationship with the designer Gordon Murray . In 1980 he was runner-up behind the Australian Alan Jones . He and Piquet maintained an intense rivalry until Jones' resignation after they had touched in Montreal in 1980. In 1981 both collided again in Zolder, Belgium . In the last race in Las Vegas in a duel with Carlos Reutemann, Piquet became world champion for the first time, whereby he also benefited from the lack of stable orders in the Williams team and the resulting competition between Jones and Reutemann. From 1982 he drove with the new BMW turbo engine , in whose development he played a key role as a test driver. However, the entire course of the 1982 season was marked by the unreliability of the engine. Piquet initially won his home race in Rio de Janeiro ; he passed out on the winners podium due to the high stress. After a protest by Renault and Ferrari against water tanks attached to the cars, the victory was stripped of him. He also won the Canadian Grand Prix . In Detroit , Piquet experienced a low point when he was unable to qualify for the race due to problems with the engine. After Gilles Villeneuve's fatal accident in Zolder, Piquet was widely regarded as the best driver in Formula 1. In 1983 , the Brabham-BMW-Piquet combination led to the first world title with a turbo engine . In the last race in South Africa he overtook Alain Prost in the Renault , the pioneer in turbo technology, who had been leading by points for a long time .
During the winter tests in Kyalami , South Africa , Piquet and Brabham-BMW again showed promising performances and were therefore considered favorites for the 1984 Formula 1 World Championship ; Due to the new tank limitation of 220 liters, the 4-cylinder turbo engine from BMW was widely identified as the engine that would best meet the new requirements. However, Piquet failed in the Brabham BT53 with the title defense in view of the dominance of the McLaren team, which won 12 of 16 races; Piquet was able to achieve pole position nine times in the again fast Brabham (and thus caught up with Ronnie Peterson and Niki Lauda, who shared this record), but won only two races and again had to struggle with a failure series. Until the end of 1985 , the extremely popular Piquet within the team remained loyal to Brabham. At that time, he was seen by the media as a fixed star who - like Jim Clark for Lotus in the 1960s - would drive forever with Brabham. The 1985 season was also disappointing; The Brabham BT54 still had a performance advantage thanks to the BMW engine, but the chassis turned out to be less than competitive and the Pirelli- tire Brabhams also had a disadvantage compared to the Goodyear teams. Piquet only won the race at Le Castellet , this win was also the last for Brabham. Piquet achieved this victory despite suffering burns to his foot during the race from gas leakage.
Williams
In 1986 he suddenly switched from Brabham to Williams - Honda . Financial reasons also played a role, as Piquet freely admitted: “I got $ 1 million from Bernie Ecclestone and asked him for double that - still a lot less than Prost received. He offered me $ 1.6 million plus a thousand dollars per championship point and thought it would be enough to hold me on. I wasn't ready to argue about it, immediately went to Williams and said I was ready to sign. Frank Williams ' offer was $ 3.3 million plus ten thousand dollars per championship point. ”Originally hired by Frank Williams as the number one driver, he fought for two years with his team-mate Nigel Mansell , who is a Brit on the British Williams team held a strong position, as Piquet discovered after his arrival. In 1987, Piquet attacked Mansell off the track in various interviews; In addition to repeated personal attacks (Piquet was negative and derogatory about Mansell and his wife Roseanne), he mainly criticized his alleged lack of skills in testing and tuning the cars. In 1986 he won the opening race in Jacarepaguá, Brazil, and dedicated this victory to Frank Williams, who had recently had a serious accident. At the race in Hungary , Piquet managed a memorable overtaking maneuver when at the end of the home straight he overtook Ayrton Senna, who was driving the battle line , intercepting his oversteering car and maintaining the lead. At the end of the season he was third in the World Championship, but could have won the championship with a win in the last race. In a dramatic season finale in Adelaide , both Williams drivers and Prost still had the opportunity to win the title. Piquet finished second just behind Prost, who thereby won the 1986 title.
The following year, at the beginning of the season in Imola , Piquet had a serious accident in the Tamburello corner (in which Ayrton Senna was fatally injured in 1994 ). As a result, according to his own statement, his health was handicapped for months; he lost 80% of his depth perception and suffered from insomnia . He kept these problems from the team in order to keep his place. He did not take part in the Imola race on the advice of chief physician Sid Watkins . He nevertheless won the world championship in a year characterized by the dominance of cars with Honda engines, despite the fact that Mansell had 6 victories during the season, while Piquet himself only won three times. As in the previous year, he again won the races in Germany , Hungary and Italy . At the Monza race , Piquet also won thanks to the active suspension that was used on his car. Piquet had used this in contrast to the skeptical Mansell. Despite Mansell's victories, he secured his third World Championship with constant points, while Mansell missed crucial points through risky maneuvers, such as a collision with Ayrton Senna at the Spa-Francorchamps race , which forced them both to retire, and an accident while training at Suzuka International Racing Course . When asked about his victory over Mansell, Piquet smugly commented on the outcome of the World Championship : "This is the victory of luck over stupidity."
Lotus, Benetton and farewell to F1
In 1988 , after separating from Williams and engine supplier Honda, he moved to Lotus- Honda, where he again signed a well-paid two-year contract; this change meant relegation in his career, because the stagnant Lotus team failed him earlier successes and he was never again among the contenders for the world title. In 2013 he said in an interview: "The Lotus 100T was so lacking in torsional strength that it was not even worth trying to solve the problem." Piquet's reputation deteriorated and in the years that followed it was largely replaced by the British Press heavily criticized. The former world champion and TV commentator at the time, James Hunt , publicly suggested his resignation in a column in mid- 1989 . For the 1990 season , Piquet instead signed a performance-related contract with the Benetton team that gave him $ 100,000 per championship point; Piquet had a strong season and won the last two World Championship races in Suzuka and Adelaide ; at the end of the season he was third in the drivers' championship. In 1991 , the Benetton team moved from Goodyear to Pirelli and instead of Alessandro Nannini , who had died in the accident, hired Piquet's compatriot and friend Roberto Moreno . Piquet took his last victory in the race in Montreal, Canada . At the end of 1991, Benetton did not renew his contract after team boss Flavio Briatore signed the young talent Michael Schumacher .
Indianapolis and sports car racing
After his career in Formula 1, Piquet moved to the Champ Car World Series. There he had a serious accident in 1992 while training for the Indianapolis 500 and sustained considerable leg injuries. A planned renewed commitment by Benetton was so broken. In 1993 he competed in the Indianapolis 500. He started in 13th place, but an engine failure ended his race after only 38 laps.
After that he only competed in a few sports car races. In 1996 he started alongside Johnny Cecotto and Danny Sullivan in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a McLaren F1 GTR and finished eighth. In December of the same year he won the McLaren F1 GTR together with Johnny Cecotto and Steve Soper at the Mil Milhas Brasileiras . In 2006 he won the 50th edition of the Mil Milhas Brasileiras in an Aston Martin DBR9 together with his son Nelson Piquet junior , Christophe Bouchut and Hélio Castroneves .
In total, Piquet achieved 23 Grand Prix victories and won the world championship in 1981, 1983 and 1987. He drove 204 Formula 1 races, making him one of the few drivers who contested more than 200 Grand Prix. Throughout his career, Piquet was an outspoken specialist in high-speed tracks such as Monza , Zeltweg and Hockenheimring , which he once called his favorite track. On the other hand, unlike his compatriot Senna, he had a marked aversion to narrow street circuits like Monaco and Detroit .
Private, miscellaneous
Piquet is 1.74 m tall. He is married for the second time; his first marriage was to Maria Clara (divorced since 1986), now he is married to Viviane. He has six children. His sons Nelson and Pedro are also racing drivers. His daughter Kelly is currently in a relationship with the Russian Formula 1 driver Daniil Kwjat .
Piquet is known for his open-hearted and sometimes provocative manner. Over the years he had an intense rivalry with several other successful drivers, such as Alan Jones, Nigel Mansell and Ayrton Senna. He expressed himself negatively in a personal way about both Mansell and Senna. Senna therefore brought a defamation suit against Piquet in 1986. According to his own statement in an interview with F1 Racing magazine in June 2008, his verbal attacks against Mansell were not intended personally, but to intensify the rivalry and split the Williams team. After James Hunt suggested he resign in a column in the British Times in mid-1989, speculating that Piquet was now only driving because of the high fee, Piquet made a rude comment about Hunt. Years later, however, Piquet indirectly confirmed Hunt's statements and admitted in an interview that after his accident in Imola in 1987 he mainly drove for the money because he never fully recovered from his accident. At the 1982 German Grand Prix , Piquet made headlines when he physically attacked Eliseo Salazar after a collision , which was seen live on television.
Piquet is considered one of the best Formula 1 drivers; In a survey of 217 former F1 drivers initiated by the magazine Autosport, he came in 13th in 2009.
In July 2007, Piquet and his wife Viviane had their driving licenses revoked after repeated violations of traffic regulations. In November 2013, Piquet had to undergo heart surgery.
Two racetracks in Brazil are named after Piquet.
statistics
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Statistics in the automobile / Formula 1 world championship
These statistics include all participations of the driver in the Formula 1 World Championship , which until 1980 was known as the Automobile World Championship.
Grand Prix victories
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| season | team | chassis | engine | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Round |
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| 1978 | Team Tissot Ensign | Ensign N177 | Ford Cosworth 3.0 V8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| BS Fabrications | McLaren M23 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Parmalat Racing Team | Brabham BT46 | Alfa Romeo 3.0 B12 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1979 | Brabham BT46 / BT48 / BT49 | 15th | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 16. | ||
| 1980 | Brabham BT49 | Ford Cosworth 3.0 V8 | 14th | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 54 | 2. | |
| 1981 | Brabham BT49C | 15th | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4th | 1 | 50 | 1. | ||
| 1982 | Brabham BT49D | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11. | ||
| Brabham BT50 | BMW 1.5 L4 Turbo | 12 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 20th | |||
| 1983 | Fila Sport | Brabham BT52 / BT52B | 15th | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4th | 59 | 1. | |
| 1984 | MRD International | Brabham BT53 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 29 | 5. | |
| 1985 | Motor Racing Developments | Brabham BT54 | 16 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 21st | 8th. | |
| 1986 | Canon Williams Honda | Williams FW11 | Honda 1.5 V6 Turbo | 16 | 4th | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7th | 69 | 3. |
| 1987 | Williams FW11B | 15th | 3 | 7th | 1 | 4th | 4th | 76 (73) | 1. | ||
| 1988 | Camel Team Lotus Honda | Lotus 100T | 16 | - | - | 3 | - | - | 22nd | 6th | |
| 1989 | Camel Team Lotus | Lotus 101 | Judd 3.5 V8 | 15th | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | 8th. |
| 1990 | Benetton Formula | Benetton B189B / B190 | Ford 3.5 V8 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 44 (43) | 3. |
| 1991 | Camel Benetton Ford | Benetton B190B / B191 | 16 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 26.5 | 6th | |
| total | 204 | 23 | 20th | 17th | 24 | 23 | 485.5 | ||||
Single results
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| colour | abbreviation | meaning |
| gold | - | victory |
| silver | - | 2nd place |
| bronze | - | 3rd place |
| green | - | Placement in the points |
| blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
| violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
| NC | not classified | |
| red | DNQ | did not qualify |
| DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
| black | DSQ | disqualified |
| White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
| WD | withdrawn | |
| Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
| TD | Friday test driver | |
| without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
| INJ | injured or sick | |
| EX | excluded | |
| DNA | did not arrive | |
| C. | Race canceled | |
| no participation in the World Cup | ||
| other | P / bold | Pole position |
| SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
| * | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
Le Mans results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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McLaren F1 GTR |
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BMW Schnitzer Motorsport
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McLaren F1 GTR |
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failure | accident |
literature
- Mike Doodson, Nelson Piquet . Hazleton Publishing, 1991, ISBN 978-0-905138-81-7 (English)
- Nigel Roebuck: Stars of Formula 1 Serag AG, Pfäffikon 1986, ISBN 3-908007-15-1 (Chapter Nelson Piquet)
Web links
- Motorsport archive statistics for Nelson Piquet
Individual evidence
- ^ Nigel Roebuck: Stars of Formula 1 Serag AG, Pfäffikon 1986, p. 115
- ^ Nigel Roebuck: Stars of Formula 1 Serag AG, Pfäffikon 1986, p. 116
- ↑ Christopher Hilton: 1982 . Haynes Publishing, Sparkford 2007, p. 52.
- ↑ f1network.net
- ^ Autosprint: "All days of the" six days "of South Africa". March 6, 1984, p. 16
- ^ Nigel Roebuck: Stars of Formula 1 Serag AG, Pfäffikon 1986, p. 111
- ^ Nigel Roebuck: Stars of Formula 1 Serag AG, Pfäffikon 1986, p. 117
- ^ Nigel Roebuck: Stars of Formula 1 Serag AG, Pfäffikon 1986, p. 117
- ^ Nigel Roebuck: Stars of Formula 1 Serag AG, Pfäffikon 1986, p. 115
- ↑ a b c d Motorsportmagazine, December 2013, pp. 68–81
- ↑ Malcolm Folley: Senna versus Prost Century, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84605-540-9 , pp. 140ff
- ↑ Christopher Hilton: Nigel Mansell. The fighter and his triumph (1992) ISBN 978-3-908007-49-4 , p. 120
- ^ Piquet and Mansell on their rivalry. f1fanatic.co.uk, January 26, 2013, accessed June 15, 2015 .
- ↑ Christopher Hilton: Nigel Mansell. The fighter and his triumph (1992) ISBN 978-3-908007-49-4 , p. 187
- ↑ Mansell vs. Piquet. YouTube, September 20, 1987, accessed May 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ ADAC Special: Grand Prix 1989 . Hamburg 1989, ISSN 0937-0137 , p. 108
- ^ Nigel Roebuck: Stars of Formula 1 Serag AG, Pfäffikon 1986, p. 115
- ↑ Christopher Hilton: Nigel Mansell. The fighter and his triumph (1992) ISBN 978-3-908007-49-4 , p. 178
- ↑ Malcolm Folley: Senna versus Prost Century, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84605-540-9 , p. 141
- ^ Roger Benoit: Blick Zürich, 1989
- ^ ADAC Special: Grand Prix 1989 . Hamburg 1989, ISSN 0937-0137 , p. 100
- ^ Piquet and Mansell on their rivalry. f1fanatic.co.uk, January 26, 2013, accessed June 15, 2015 .
- ^ Autosport: Autosport F1's Greatest Drivers - Nelson Piquet Sr.
- ↑ BBC News : Ex-F1 champ takes driving lessons
- ↑ Autosport: Triple Formula 1 champion Nelson Piquet undergoes heart surgery
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Piquet, Nelson |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Piquet Souto-Maior, Nelson Fredo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian Formula 1 racing driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rio de Janeiro |