One of the best motorists in F1 background all through the eighties of the twentieth century was Brazilian driver Nelson Piquet, who has won 3 earth winner titles, driving the Brephem and Williams. Piquet was a favored of audiences and a person of the persons that marked the period of turbo engines in Method 1.
He was born on 17th August 1952 in Rio de Janeiro as Nelson Souto Maior. He grew up in the cash of Brazil, Brasilia, for the reason that his father was a politician and minister of overall health in the Brazilian authorities. In his youth he showed excellent enthusiasm for the racing activity, but that did not come across an approval from his father. He spent a year at higher education in California, where by he completed vehicle mechanic training course. After returning to Brazil he started out to race in the Brazilian Karting Championship. On 1 Components 1 race held in Brazil in 1976, which was not pushed for profitable factors for the championship, Pike located his very first job in Formula just one. He washed the auto components in the Brabham crew. At that time nobody could consider that later he is heading to grew to become Method 1globe champion driving for that workforce.
In the championship he entered the in 1978. That calendar year, Pike has develop into a champion of British Formula 3, and he was rapidly found by Bernie Ecclestone who was the owner of Brabham workforce.
Before long, Nelson Pike has won to start with championship in 1981. Two years afterwards, he has gained his next title also driving for Brabham. That second title from year 1983 was substantial for the reality, that Pike turned the to start with driver who has won the title with a turbo engine. Turbo engines have marked the relaxation of the ten years.
In the late eighties Pike moved to the Williams staff, with which he has won championship in 1987. At the time, there was a wonderful rivalry amongst him and his team colleague, the English driver Nigel Mensell. The two of them, and the MekLaren drivers Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna, marked the next fifty percent of the eighties in F1 record.
He retired from the competition with no any major incidents, even if he has begun a lot more than 200 races. In 1992 on Indy 500 race at Indianapolis he had an accident in which he very seriously hurt his legs.
