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Nelson Piquet Souto Maior (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈnɛwsõ piˈke], born 17 August 1952) is a Brazilian retired racing driver and businessman who won the World Drivers' Championship three times in the years 1981, 1983 and 1987.
- 8th (1996)
- 1996, 1997
- Team Bigazzi SRLTeam BMW Motorsport
Mar 25, 2023 · Three-time Formula One champion Nelson Piquet was ordered to pay a fine of nearly $1 million (five million reais) in moral damages for racist and homophobic comments aimed at Mercedes driver...
After winning twice in 1990 and once the next year he left Formula One racing at the age of 40, though he wasn't yet finished with motorsport. An attempt to qualify for the 1992 Indianapolis 500 ended in the worst accident of his career, leaving him with badly crushed lower limbs.
Nelson Piquet was one of Formula 1’s biggest stars of the 1980s, going head to head with fellow legends Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Ayrton Senna – and enjoying his fair share of...
Jun 29, 2022 · CNN — Former F1 driver Nelson Piquet has apologized for his racial slur aimed at Lewis Hamilton and said his comments had no racist intent. Piquet used a Brazilian Portuguese racial slur to...
Jul 12, 2023 · Nelson Piquet’s greatest achievements extend beyond his impressive Formula One career. In addition to his three F1 World Championships, Piquet triumphed in iconic races such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Daytona 500, and the Race of Champions.
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Feb 21, 2021 · It would be easy to be fooled by Nelson Piquet’s famously irreverent manner that he wasn’t serious about the business of driving Formula 1 cars. But beneath the jokey exterior lurked one incredibly fast racing driver.
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