He was natural within Rio de Janeiro, the boy of the Brazilian minister. He began utilizing his mother's maiden title, Piquet, around his drive racing career to hide his identity.

Nelsons Surname "Piquet" is of French origin & pronounced when "Pee-Kay"

Piquet was the young prodigy inside British Formula 3 during the late 1970s, and his promotion to Formula A single heralded one of a wonderful careers in the sport. Together by having a Brabham team, including team boss Bernie Ecclestone and chief designer Gordon Murray, he became a uniform competition for a globe title, despite the transition from either Ford V8 to BMW turbo engines.

The shift around 1986 to the Williams team saw Piquet in directly competition using his fiercest contender, Nigel Mansell. Each got extremely strung characters & delicate temperaments. Both top drivers sustaining such big egos in the equivalent team was the formula for fireworks - & sure plenty Mansell & Piquet went head to head for the title. Though them drove a better cars on a grid, their competition induced for each one to deprive the more of points, letting Alain Prost to steal one of the virtually all fiercely disputed championships within F1 history. Piquet processed amends around 1987, using political maneuvering & technical indicator skill to benefit a upper hand. Despite winning fewer races than Mansell, inside 1987 Piquet emerged when champion. Whilst Piquet followed a dominant Honda engines to a stagnating Lotus team in 1988, his career took a nose dive. He began to lose his reputation whenever he got there are no wins around 1988 and even failed to qualify once within a while in 1989. He resorted to using the medithe to attack his competition & gained a reputation as an outspoken "loose cannon." Yet, the payment-by-effects treat by owning Benetton saw Piquet return to top form within 1990, with 2 wins, followed per final win of his F1 career at Montreal in 1991 - at the expense of long instance rival Mansell.

Called the practical joker, Piquet lived the stereotypically corinthian racing driver modus vivendi, earning & losing & earning once agaaround the series of microscopic fortunes in his business dealings. One of a smashing characters of Eighties F1, he tried his hand at a Indy 500 in 1992, but crashed in the period of qualifying & was badly wounded. Undaunted, he returned within 1993 with respectable results. He remains an competitve driver around sportscar racing, albeit thomas more for fun than using good intent.

Since 2000, he has supported a career of his boy, Nelson Angelo "Nelsinho" Piquet, who is a leading British F3 driver has been pegged by the F1 media as a future star.

He was inducted into a International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2000.