Nelson Piquet, for many considered a "bon vivant", always tried to find the good things of life beside motorsport. Known the difficulty of share the life of a F1 World Champion with a life of a single person, his relation with reporters and press wasn't pacific, he earned sometimes the "lemon trophy". However, this prize have a strange story because it was a french journalist that "hounored" Piquet with it, nothing strange here, but if we say that he never talked to Nelson and that we was the public relations of Goodyear, remenber that this prize was given in 83, season that Piquet used Michelin tyres and beat Alain Prost in his Renault, do I need to say more...

From his frequent hobbys, the major are tennis, influenced by his father, and the X-treme sports like water ski and snow ski. He have other interests like Vasco da Gama (soccer team of Rio de Janeiro) and "Salgueiro", his preferd samba school in Rio Carnival.

Nelson's affaire relations, where Princess St�phanie is included (speculation ???), became famous in that time, as a result he have today 7 children's of 4 different women, that's why so many people gave him the title of "playboy".

Nowadays, Piquet's reality is very much different, living in Brasilia with his wife Vivianne Le�o and the son Nelsinho since his F1 retirement, and forbiden to practice his X-treme sports due to the sever damages in his legs in consequence of his accident in the 500 Indianapolis practice, his atentions turn now to his father task, to the driver carreer of Nelsinho, to Autotrac, a satelite entreprise that Piquet brought to Brazil in 1992 and to the Independent Motorsport League (LIA) to face the burocratic and sick Brazilian Motorsport Confederation (CBA).

The sea is other of Piquet passions and favourite place to relax. Since 1989, that the "Sailer Piquet" built a yate called "Pilar Rossi", it was inside of it that he lived some years when he was still a F1 driver. Today sails in the Cear� waters, in the Brazilian Northeast.

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