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, 1988

16 races
7 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1APR 3Brazilian Grand PrixTeam Lotus5360Finished4
2MAY 1San Marino Grand PrixTeam Lotus3359+1 Lap4
3MAY 15Monaco Grand PrixTeam Lotus11R1Collision0
4MAY 29Mexican Grand PrixTeam Lotus4R58Engine0
5JUN 12Canadian Grand PrixTeam Lotus6468+1 Lap3
6JUN 19Detroit Grand PrixTeam Lotus8R26Spun off0
7JUL 3French Grand PrixTeam Lotus7579+1 Lap2
8JUL 10British Grand PrixTeam Lotus7565Finished2
9JUL 24German Grand PrixTeam Lotus5R1Spun off0
10AUG 7Hungarian Grand PrixTeam Lotus13873+3 Laps0
11AUG 28Belgian Grand PrixTeam Lotus9443Finished3
12SEP 11Italian Grand PrixTeam Lotus7R11Clutch0
13SEP 25Portuguese Grand PrixTeam Lotus8R34Clutch0
14OCT 2Spanish Grand PrixTeam Lotus9872Finished0
15OCT 30Japanese Grand PrixTeam Lotus5R34Driver unwell0
16NOV 13Australian Grand PrixTeam Lotus5382Finished4

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: 7 of 16 rows in 1988 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 1988 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