The Rebel Champion: Nelson Piquet and the Art of Provocation

Nelson Piquet didn't play by anyone's rules-on or off the track. One of Formula One's most brilliant yet controversial champions, Piquet's career spanned a golden, dangerous era of turbocharged rivalry, political mind games, and mechanical genius. With three world titles and a string of unforgettable victories, he was a master of strategy behind the wheel-and verbal grenades outside it. From his early days wrenching on karts in Bras璱ia to his title-clinching brilliance in Vegas and Monza, Piquet stood apart: cerebral, sardonic, and fearlessly provocative.

In The Rebel Champion, readers are taken deep inside the garage, the paddock, and the psyche of a driver who helped redefine what it meant to be fast-not just with a steering wheel, but with a scalpel-sharp mind. This is not just a racing biography-it's a portrait of a sporting icon who made enemies, made headlines, and made history. Love him or loathe him, Nelson Piquet refused to be ignored-and this book shows why he still matters.