F1/Drivers/Nelson Piquet
Nelson Piquet, portrait

NELSON PIQUET

Brazilian·Born August 17, 1952·1978-1991 · 14 seasons · 8 constructors
205
RACE STARTS
1978-1991 · 14 seasons
23
WINS
60 podiums · 24 poles
485.5
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
3
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
83
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
8
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
11.2%
STARTS WON
23 of 205

01/Season by season

17 lines over 14 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1991Benetton161st13026.5626.5
1990Benetton161st24044343
1989Team Lotus154th00012812
1988Team Lotus163rd03022622
1987Williams161st311476173
1986Williams161st410269369
1985Brabham161st12121821
1984Brabham161st24929529
1983Brabham151st38159159
1982Brabham141st121201120
1981Brabham151st37450150
1980Brabham141st36254254
1979 · rounds 1-13Brabham-Alfa Romeo134th0003163
1979 · rounds 14-15Brabham-Ford20000
1978 · rounds 11-11Ensign100000
1978 · rounds 12-14McLaren39th0000
1978 · rounds 16-16Brabham111th0000
Career8 constructors2051st236024485.53 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Piquet has 17 lines over 14 seasons: 2 seasons were split between constructors and the round range of each spell is printed beside the year. Across the archive that is 3,422 season-constructor lines against 3,129 driver-seasons, so folding on the season alone would silently merge 293 of them and credit a driver with a full year at a car driven for a fortnight. Champ and Champ pts belong to the SEASON, not to the spell, and are printed once on a season’s first line; a dash in those two columns on a continuation line means the figure is above it, not that it is missing. Race pts is the sum of Grand Prix points and does not have to equal Champ pts: 139 of 3,129 driver-seasons differ, 68 of them from 1950 to 1990, when only a driver’s best results counted toward the title, and 71 from 2021 on, when sprint points began landing in the standings while this archive holds the Grand Prix result alone. Best is the best CLASSIFIED finish, read from position_text.


02/Race log, 1982

14 races
10 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 23South African Grand PrixBrabham2R3Spun off0
2MAR 21Brazilian Grand PrixBrabham7D63Disqualified0
3APR 4United States Grand Prix WestBrabham6R25Spun off0
5MAY 9Belgian Grand PrixBrabham8567+3 Laps2
6MAY 23Monaco Grand PrixBrabham13R49Turbo0
8JUN 13Canadian Grand PrixBrabham4170Finished9
9JUL 3Dutch Grand PrixBrabham3272Finished6
10JUL 18British Grand PrixBrabham3R9Fuel system0
11JUL 25French Grand PrixBrabham6R23Engine0
12AUG 8German Grand PrixBrabham4R18Collision0
13AUG 15Austrian Grand PrixBrabham1R31Electrical0
14AUG 29Swiss Grand PrixBrabham6479+1 Lap3
15SEP 12Italian Grand PrixBrabham2R7Engine0
16SEP 25Caesars Palace Grand PrixBrabham12R26Spark plugs0

The log is ordered by round, which is the calendar. Pos prints position_text, the source’s own classification, so R is retired, W is withdrew and D is disqualified rather than a finishing place: 10 of 14 rows in 1982 are one of those. Grid 0 means the car started from the pit lane or took no recorded grid slot and prints as PIT. No fastest-lap column is drawn: the source has no lap timing before 2004, so 1982 has none to show and an empty column would read as missing data. A Grand Prix name links to that race’s full classification. Sprints are not in this archive at all, so no sprint appears in the log and no sprint point is in Pts.

The portrait is the lead image of this driver’s Wikipedia article, shown only where that image was measured to hold a face at portrait scale: 374 of 881 drivers have one, 78 lead with a photograph of a car and 385 have no free image at all. Picture from Wikipedia by Agência Brasília, CC BY 2.0. File description