Editing Riccardo Patrese (section)

===Brabham===
[[Image:Patrese at 1982 Dutch Grand Prix.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Patrese at the [[1982 Dutch Grand Prix]]]]
In [[1982 Formula One season|1982]] Patrese moved to [[Brabham]] and gained his maiden win at that year's [[1982 Monaco Grand Prix|Monaco Grand Prix]] in rather sensational circumstances. Patrese took the lead when [[Alain Prost]] crashed out, only to spin in dampening conditions on the next lap. This left him third behind [[Didier Pironi]] and [[Andrea de Cesaris]], who both stopped on the final lap – Pironi with an electrical fault and de Cesaris out of fuel. Later that season he also led the [[1982 Austrian Grand Prix|Austrian Grand Prix]] but retired due to an engine failure.<ref name=taylor /> Patrese finished the season tenth, just ahead of his teammate [[Nelson Piquet]]. [[1983 Formula One season|1983]] proved to be a more difficult season. Patrese crashed out late in the race while leading at San Marino - to the cheers of the ''[[tifosi]]'', as his shunt meant that he handed the race win to [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] driver [[Patrick Tambay]].<ref name=taylor /> He also took pole on home ground at the [[1983 Italian Grand Prix|Italian Grand Prix]], before his engine blew up in the early stages of the race: in a 2010 interview he said he suspected that his engine had been left in its qualifying trim, rendering it extremely powerful but fragile, as he had not been offered a new contract for the following year, and had been reluctant to sacrifice his chances of winning his home Grand Prix for teammate [[Nelson Piquet]], who was fighting for the World Championship.<ref name=taylor /> Despite scoring a second win at the [[1983 South African Grand Prix|South African Grand Prix]], Patrese only finished ninth while Piquet claimed his second Drivers' Championship title. It would be seven years before he made another visit to the top step of the [[podium]].