Nelson Piquet during his career in Formula 1, which developed mainly over the eighties, confronted several generations of pilots: at the beginning he had as teammate Niki Lauda, from whom he was able to learn a lot about mass to the point of the car; Subsequently, he managed to emerge in the comparison with pilots who had animated the previous decade, such as Carlos Reutemann. In the central part of his career he rival Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mansell, while at the end of his career he found himself having the debutant team Michael Schumacher as his teammate.
He had a balanced driving style: not coldly calculating such as Lauda or Prost, but neither excessive and impetuous as Mansell. Versatile pilot, he won with very different cars and engines, from the engine wing-cars aspirated to the turbo cars with which he was the first to become world champion in 1981; He has shown great adaptation capacity on new circuits, winning the first editions of the great prizes carried out on the circuits of Imola and Hungaroring, but had a negative relationship with the Montecarlo circuit where he would have desired but he obtained only three placements.
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