🇧🇷 Pedro Piquet

Pedro Piquet is a retired Brazilian single-seater driver who competed across five seasons from 2016 to 2020 in European junior formulae, amassing 108 starts with three wins and eight podiums. Son of three-time Formula One world champion Nelson Piquet and brother of Formula E champion Nelson Piquet Jr., he arrived in international racing on the back of two Brazilian Formula 3 national titles but found the step up to FIA-graded competition markedly more demanding. His strongest period came in GP3 Series in 2018, where he scored two wins and four podiums across 16 rounds to finish fifth in the final standings; he also won once in Formula 3 that year. His European Formula 3 campaigns in 2016 and 2017 yielded only a single podium across 48 starts, and his 2020 move to Formula 2 with Charouz Racing System produced no points finishes from 24 entries before he exited the series.[1]

Throughout his career, Piquet raced frequently against drivers who would go on to stronger professional achievements. He finished ahead of Mick Schumacher, an FIA Platinum-graded two-time champion, in 37 of their 49 shared races, and posted winning results against several drivers who reached higher single-seater categories, including Lando Norris, Yuki Tsunoda, and Liam Lawson on seven, eleven and ten occasions respectively across their overlaps. However, his head-to-head records against his most consistent rivals tell a different story. Nikita Mazepin, a much stronger-rated driver graded Platinum, finished ahead of Piquet 54 times to 25 behind across 79 races; Callum Ilott, similarly graded, beat him 68 times to 9. Against another Platinum-graded peer, Zhou Guanyu, Piquet managed only 21 finishes ahead to 46 behind in 67 meetings. His average finishing position of P11.3 across all classified starts places him within the competitive spread of strong club and semi-professional fields, though the progression of his record suggests he reached his ceiling in the GP3 and Formula 3 level rather than ascending further into the professional ranks.[2]