In 1983 the Brabham BT52, driven by Piquet and Italian Riccardo Patrese, was powered by the BMW M12 Straight-4 engine, and powered Brabham to four of the team's 35 Grand Prix victories.

In 1986, at the last race of the season, he managed to pip Mansell and Piquet of Williams to the title after Mansell retired late on in the race, and Piquet was pulled in for a late precautionary pit stop.

For 2008 the team was known simply as Piquet Sports.

Bezique was developed in France from the game Piquet, although the word Bezique, formerly Bésique or Bésigue, was known in France in the 17th century, coming probably from the Italian card game Bazzica.

The game was introduced in Germany during the Thirty Years War, and texts of that period provide substantial evidence of its vogue, like the metaphorical use of the word " Repique " in the 1634-8 political poem Allamodisch Picket Spiel (" Piquet Game à la mode "), which reflects the growing popularity of the game at that time.

As with other games like Bête, the substantive form of the word " Piquet " was turned into a verb and this is used substantially by Rist's 1640 Spiele: die man Picquetten who gives the word his grudging assent.

Until the early 20th century, Piquet was perhaps the most popular card game in France, occupying a similar position to Cribbage in England.

During this period the game was known as Cent, after the Spanish game Cientos, referring to the fact that one of the chief goals of Piquet is to reach 100 points.

Piquet was born in Rio de Janeiro, then the capital of Brazil, the son of Estácio Gonçalves Souto Maior, a Brazilian politician.

This engine was the result of a deal between BMW and Brabham, which resulted in the team's chassis being powered by BMW engines from until, a period in which Nelson Piquet won the championship driving a Brabham BT52-BMW.

Team principal Bernie Ecclestone was under pressure from the team's title sponsor, Parmalat, to defend Piquet's championship, and opted to race with the Cosworth-powered BT49 chassis at the Brazilian Grand Prix, which Piquet won but was later disqualified for circumventing the minimum weight limit by running " water-cooled brakes ".

As the relationship between Brabham, BMW and Parmalat became strained, Ecclestone was forced to compromise, with Piquet continuing development of the BT50 whilst Patrese raced with the Cosworth chassis.

At the Monaco Grand Prix, Patrese won, whilst Piquet was more than two seconds slower in qualifying and retired from the race.

A Monaco expert, Andrea was on course for a podium position in Monte Carlo, before being taken out by triple world champion Nelson Piquet at the Lowes Hairpin.

In the space of 200m Berger was passed by Nelson Piquet ( Lotus ), Derek Warwick and Eddie Cheever ( Arrows ) and Riccardo Patrese ( Williams ).

It was won by Nelson Piquet for Brabham-Ford.

* 18 February-Henry Piquet, flying a Humber biplane, carried mail from Allahabad to Naini junction which was the first flight in India.

The title, won by Piquet for the Brabham team of Bernie Ecclestone, champion of the non-manufacturer teams ' rights, was the first-ever won by a turbocharged engine.

However, when all the stops were over, Massa was behind Nelson Piquet, Jr. who had already pitted as he was on a one-stopper.

During the first week of practice, Nelson Piquet was involved in a serious crash, and was unable to drive.

The race was fairly uneventful – Reutemann made a poor start from pole position and Alan Jones and Piquet were able to pass him into the first corner.

As had become standard practice in 1988, the Lotus-Hondas of Nelson Piquet and Satoru Nakajima weren't able to match the similarly engined McLarens, with Piquet qualifying 3, and Nakajima 4 seconds slower than Ayrton Senna's pole time.

Nelson Piquet also spun at the high-speed Stag turn but was able to recover and he continued as well.

Patrese tried to pass Piquet but went wide and de Cesaris was able to take third.

Would Williams be able to continue their success without Honda and Nelson Piquet?

Reigning world driver's champion Nelson Piquet and his Brabham-BMW were usually the fastest combination on track but appalling early season reliability, where the reigning Drivers ' World Champion failed to score a point due to numerous engine and turbo failures before his win in Canada, meant he was never able to challenge consistently, and by half way through the season it was apparent he wouldn't repeat as champion.

Arnoux rejoined after a stop of just 13. 5 seconds, still barely in the lead ; by the time Rosberg was able to get back on the track ( his stop lasted 17. 5 seconds ), he was in fifth place behind Piquet, Alboreto and Jacques Laffite, none of whom had stopped.

The collision also allowed Piquet to make up for starting the race in the wrong gear, the Brazilian able to retain his 3rd-place grid position by the end of the first lap.

On lap 14, Piquet was also able to set the fastest lap, which could mean an additional point for Brazil, provided the time of 1 ' 34. 736 was not beaten in the main race.

With Patrese out, Senna led Piquet, who was having to hold off Alesi, by over a minute.

Piquet was just about to slip by when Villeneuve jumped back on the track in front of him and salvaged his hold on fifth place.

Then Jones nudged off Piquet at the early stages of the race and Piquet crashed into some catch fencing at the chicane ; and a furious Piquet stormed to the Williams garage in an altercation with Jones and the Williams personnel after Jones's gearbox failed, ploughed into the barriers and badly burned his left thigh after the gearbox oil leaked into Jones's cockpit.

Mansell took pole position for the race, but this advantage was cancelled out following a poor start off the grid, with teammate Piquet, Ayrton Senna and Keke Rosberg all overtaking him and demoting the Brit down to fourth by the end of the first lap.

While the McLarens held the first two places throughout the race, Berger had passed Piquet for 3rd place under braking at the end of the main straight, and by half distance he had moved to within three seconds of Senna when he backed off after receiving a ' low fuel ' warning ( which turned out to be incorrect ).

Piquet suffered a first-lap retirement, aquaplaning off the track at the Ostkurve due to his slick tyres.

Alain Prost led off the start from Senna, Gerhard Berger, Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell, and by lap 4 the lead had grown to 5. 5 seconds.

Both Dallaras spun out at the same place at Brewery Bend, while Mansell, Nannini, Piquet and Cheever all had off track excursions.

Berger spun off at the first corner on lap 2, on sand thrown onto the track by the Senna / Prost collision, leaving Mansell to lead the race from the two Benettons of Piquet and Moreno.

In the post race interview with the top three finishers, Piquet said with a smile that after his lap 80 off which allowed Mansell to close up to him that he had to " drive like hell " over the last lap and a half, and that the " shit almost hit the fan ", referring to Mansell's last ditch overtaking move which almost took both cars out.

He was followed out by Nelson Piquet who spun on lap 2 and Jean Alesi who spun off on lap 3 attempting a rather foolhardy pass on Stefano Modena.

This left Senna ahead of Piquet, de Cesaris, and Patrese, who had gone off the track trying to pass Piquet.

Meanwhile Patrese got past Piquet as well and set off after the Jordan.

The season started off at the Phoenix street circuit where Senna took pole ahead of Prost, Patrese, Mansell, Piquet and Alesi.

Piquet, who did not stop, was passed by Alesi for second with Prost taking fourth off Stefano Modena soon after.

At the start, Senna took off and Mansell got by Patrese while Alesi got by Berger and Piquet got ahead of Prost.

At the start, Berger took off better than Senna but Senna just stayed ahead with Berger second, Prost third, Mansell fourth with Patrese fifth and Piquet sixth.

At the first start, Piquet pushed Mansell off the road and soon Nakajima and Modena collided as well, resulting in start No. 2.

At the start, Senna took off into the lead with Berger defending from the Ferraris and Piquet getting by Alesi and Patrese.

This left Piquet with a lead of more than a minute over Patrese and Arnoux, and he began to ease off, allowing some cars to unlap themselves.

Starting on pole, Piquet led from flag to flag and held off a brilliant charge by first-year driver Martin Brundle in the normally aspirated Tyrrell to win the third Detroit Grand Prix by less than a second.

Mansell had decided that he could get by Piquet off the grid and aimed his Lotus for the space between the two front row cars.