Top 10 F1 overtakes of all-time

#5 - Nelson Piquet on Ayrton Senna (Hungary 1986)

The first GP behind the Iron Curtain also gave us one of Formula 1’s best ever overtakes. Budapest's Hungaroring is a mainstay on the calendar these days, but in 1986, the Hungarian Grand Prix was a brand new race.

Ayrton Senna, in his Lotus, led the race from pole position since the start, but Nelson Piquet passed him in the early stages. Senna took the position back from his fellow Brazilian in the pit-stop phase but Piquet would once again close the gap in his superior Williams. By Lap 53 of 76, Piquet was once again on Senna’s gearbox going onto the pit-straight.

The Hungaroring is a notoriously tricky circuit to overtake on and Senna was a hard man to pass, so the move had to be clinical. Senna positioned his black and gold Lotus in the middle of the road to make it as wide and, as difficult, to pass as possible. However, Piquet defied the odds to lunge his Williams down the inside, on the dirty and dusty line, with a full opposite lock on his steering to masterfully take the lead.

A move that you simply wouldn't see nowadays because of the way the cars are designed, it was a spectacular sight and one of the defining images of Formula 1 in the 1980s.