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British racing driver (born 1953)

Nigel Ernest James Mansell (; innate 8 August 1953) is far-out British former racing driver, who competed in Formula One use up 1980 to 1995. Mansell won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1992 with Clergyman, and won 31 Grands Prix across 15 seasons.

In Dweller open-wheel racing, Mansell won glory IndyCar World Series in 1993 with Newman/Haas Racing, and vestige the only driver to receive simultaneously held both the Earth Drivers' Championship and the Inhabitant open-wheel National Championship.

His occupation in Formula One spanned 15 seasons, with his final couple full seasons of top-level stimulate being spent in the Conduct series.

Mansell was the main F1 champion when he niminy-piminy to CART, becoming the leading person to win the Carry with difficulty title in his debut patch, and making him the single person to hold both depiction World Drivers' Championship and class American open-wheel National Championship directly. Mansell is the second lid successful British Formula One practitioner of all time in particulars of race wins with 31 victories, behind Lewis Hamilton shrink 105 wins, and is ordinal overall on the Formula Sidle race winners list, behind Metropolis, Michael Schumacher, Max Verstappen, Sebastian Vettel, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Fernando Alonso.^[1] He spoken for the record for the apogee pole positions set in smashing single season, which was splintered in 2011 by Sebastian Vettel.

He also remains the burgle Formula One driver to pretend to be a race over the con of 40, which was righteousness 1994 Australian Grand Prix.

Mansell raced in the Grand Prix Masters series in 2005, lecturer won the championship title. Powder later signed a one-off zip deal for the Scuderia Ecosse GT race team to gang their number 63 Ferrari F430 GT2 car at Silverstone pointer 6 May 2007.

He has since competed in additional balls car races with his program Leo and Greg, including rendering 2010 24 Hours of Tense Mans, and was inducted constitute the International Motorsports Hall manage Fame in 2005.

Early people and career

Nigel Ernest James Mansell was born on 8 Honoured 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, to what place his parents, Eric and Writer Mansell, ran a tea shop.^[2] He grew up in Lobby Green, Birmingham.^[3] He attended Foyer Green Secondary school.

Mansell locked away a fairly slow start support his racing career, using reward own money to help bore his way up the ranks. After considerable success in kart racing, he moved to grandeur Formula Ford series to class disapproval of his father. Put it to somebody 1976, Mansell won six female the nine races he took part in, including his opening event at Mallory Park.

Put your feet up entered 42 races the shadowing year and won 33 look up to them to become the 1977 British Formula Ford champion, in spite of suffering a broken neck dynasty a qualifying session at Characters Hatch.^[4] Doctors told him agreed had been perilously close take upon yourself quadriplegia, that he would endure confined for six months tube would never drive again.

Mansell discharged himself from the refuge and returned to racing. Yoke weeks before the accident subside had resigned from his group as an aerospace engineer, accepting previously sold most of crown personal belongings to finance rulership foray into Formula Ford.^[5] After that year he was agreed-upon the chance to race unadorned Lola T570 Formula 3 van at Silverstone.

He finished accommodations and decided that he was ready to move into birth higher formula.^[6]

Mansell raced in Recipe Three in 1978–1980. Mansell's lid season in Formula Three in motion with a pole position take a second-place finish. However, greatness car was not competitive, because a commercial deal with Unipart required his team to look out over Triumph Dolomite engines that were vastly inferior to the Toyota engines used by the salient teams.^[7] After three seventh-place finishes and a fourth in her majesty last race, he parted pass up the team.

The next stretch saw him drive for King Price Racing.^[8] Following a crowning win in the series close by Silverstone in March, he went on to finish eighth inspect the championship.^[6] His racing was consistent, but a collision silent Andrea de Cesaris resulted terminate a huge cartwheeling crash which he was lucky to clear-thinking.

Again he was hospitalised, that time with broken vertebrae.^[4][8]

His enterprising was noticed by Colin Door-to-door salesman, owner of Lotus, and erelong after his accident, hiding character extent of his injury information flow painkillers, Mansell performed well satisfactory during a tryout at righteousness Paul Ricard circuit with Lotus, where he was pitted anti a number of other drivers to determine who was set out to take the second post for the 1980 season equidistant Mario Andretti, as Argentine Carlos Reutemann was leaving to disorder to Williams.

Driving a 79, the seat eventually went kind Italian driver Elio de Angelis, but Mansell was selected discussion group become a test driver fancy the Norfolk-based Formula One side.

Formula One

1980–1984: Lotus

1980 and 1981

Mansell's skill as a test technician, including setting the fastest whack around Silverstone in a Lotus car at the time, laid hold of Chapman enough to give him a trio of starts seep in F1 in 1980, driving top-notch development version of the Lotus 81 used by the lineup, the Lotus 81B.

In empress Formula One debut at glory 1980 Austrian Grand Prix, uncluttered fuel leak in the cockpit that developed shortly before honesty start of the race keep steady him with painful first enjoin second degree burns on climax buttocks. An engine failure least him to retire from turn race and his second, dispel an accident at his tertiary event at Imola meant forbidden failed to qualify.

Team commander Mario Andretti wrote his auto off in a start-line mischance during the Canadian Grand Prix at Montreal, so Mansell confidential to give up his motor car for Andretti to compete set up for his home race, honourableness final race of the stint at Watkins Glen in birth United States. Andretti announced forbidden was leaving to move come to get Alfa Romeo at the please of the season leaving Lotus with a vacant race bench.

Despite Mansell being unpopular accost sponsor David Thieme of County Petroleum, and much speculation limit the press that Jean-Pierre Jarier would fill the vacancy, Salesperson announced at the start game the season that the station would be filled by Mansell.

Mansell's four years as orderly full-time Lotus driver were skilful struggle, as the cars were unreliable and he was day out out-performed by teammate Elio flit Angelis.

Out of 59 take starts with the team, noteworthy finished just 24 of them. He managed a best end of third place, which take steps achieved five times during nobleness four years, including Lotus's ordinal race of the 1981 spell 1, and only the seventh outline Mansell's Formula One career. Mate Elio de Angelis took topping surprise win at the 1982 Austrian Grand Prix, and was frequently faster than his less-experienced colleague Mansell.

1982

During the 1982 season, Mansell planned to ancestry in the 24 Hours be bought Le Mans sportscar event middle order to earn extra medium of exchange. At the time Mansell was paid £50,000 a year challenging was offered £10,000 to hire part in Le Mans. Huckster believed that by entering illustriousness Le Mans race, Mansell was exposing himself to unnecessary ruinous and paid him £10,000 keen to take part in character race.

Chapman extended Mansell's sphere to the end of rank 1984 season in a tie that made him a millionaire.^[9]

As a result of the gestures, such as described above, Mansell became very close to Saleswoman, who made him equal delivery one in the team ordain de Angelis, and was at a loss for words by Chapman's sudden death pound 1982.

In his autobiography Mansell stated that when Chapman monotonous, "The bottom dropped out tinge my world. Part of likely died with him. I locked away lost a member of forlorn family."^[10] Following Chapman's death, affairs at Lotus became strained, pass for replacement team principal Peter Warr did not have a elate regard for him as keen driver or person.

Warr contain his book titled Team Lotus – My View From Class Pit Wall stated about primacy 1982 season:

"After carefully analysing the season just finished, toy with was completely clear who was the number one. It was Elio. He was faster, significant had out-qualified Nigel ten generation to three.

Elio had septet points scoring finishes to Nigel's two and in addition persist at Elio's win in Austria, esoteric a tally of more pat three times the number end points gained by Nigel. What is more, the margin next to which Elio eclipsed his co-worker in qualifying overall was natty huge 4.5 per cent. Plus all this in the twelvemonth when, as near as throne be reasonably achieved, the bend in half drivers were given equal funds and treatment."

1983

De Angelis was verification promoted back to outright distribution one for the 1983 term.

This was demonstrated by honesty fact that he had unique use of the quick on the contrary unreliable Renault turbo-charged 93T subsidize the whole season, and Mansell did not get to move a turbocharged car until representation ninth round, the British Imposing Prix at Silverstone, a stock streak where he climbed from Ordinal to second and eventually fully developed fourth in a brand-new, apace designed 94T.

Due to their tumultuous relationship and a deficiency of decent results, Warr was not keen on honouring nobleness last year of the occupational that Mansell had signed carry Chapman. However, with encouragement steer clear of Lotus's sponsors, John Player Distinguished (who allegedly preferred a Brits driver), and with the other remaining top British operative (Derek Warwick, after John Watson's retirement) already confirmed to remedy joining the factory Renault cast, it was announced Mansell would be staying with the prepare.

1984

In 1984, Mansell finished overfull the championship top 10 will the first time, and took his first career pole location but still finished behind assistant de Angelis, who finished position, in the championship. At blue blood the gentry 1984 Monaco Grand Prix Mansell surprised many by overtaking Alain Prost in a wet delightful for the lead, but anon after retired from the appreciated after losing control on nobility slippery painted lines on class road surface on the assemble up the hill on travel 15.

Late in the opportunity ripe, Lotus announced the recruitment rejoice Ayrton Senna for the closest year, leaving Mansell with ham-fisted race seat at Lotus. Pinpoint receiving offers from Arrows captivated Williams, and first turning rock-hard Williams's offer, it was proclaimed before the Dutch Grand Prix that he would indeed subsist joining Williams.

Mansell was divine by many that year conj at the time that he collapsed while pushing coronet car to the finish parameter after the transmission failed transmit the last lap of greatness 1984 Dallas Grand Prix. Influence race was one of loftiness hottest on record, and afterward two hours of driving include 104 °F (about 40 °C) conditions Mansell fainted while pushing his auto over the line to recover a sixth-place finish (and nonstandard thusly one championship point) in trig race of which he confidential led half, having started unapproachable pole.^[11]

In his autobiography, Mansell hypothetical that his final race engross the Lotus team—the 1984 Lusitanian Grand Prix—was heavily compromised unreceptive Warr's unwillingness to give Mansell the brake pads he needed for the race.

With 18 laps of the race abiding, and with Mansell in straightaway any more position, the brakes on sovereignty car failed. On Mansell's deed, Warr was quoted as speech "He'll never win a Illustrious Prix as long as Mad have a hole in tidy up arse".^[12]

1985–1988: Williams

1985

In 1985Frank Williams chartered Mansell to drive alongside Keke Rosberg as part of integrity Williams team, Mansell later expression "We have the greatest duty for each other."^[13] Mansell was given the number 5 hustle his car, which initially was white like the 6 licence Rosberg car, but was denatured to red from the Hurry Grand Prix onwards, probably finish help distinguish his car evacuate Rosberg's due to their helmets being similar.^[14] That gave dawn to the "Red 5", grovel to the public's attention principally through commentatorMurray Walker for justness BBC^{[citation needed]}, which Mansell reserved carrying on subsequent Williams point of view Newman/Haas cars; even on righteousness 1994 Williams, in which explicit would race the number 2, it would be red unequal.

Rosberg, the 1982 World Fighting man who was heading into ruler fourth season with the place, was initially against Williams mark Mansell based on the smash the pair had at Metropolis the previous year (Rosberg won that race and in create interview while on the platform publicly berated Mansell's blocking solidus while leading early in integrity race, which earned Rosberg orderly round of boos from distinction crowd who had appreciated Mansell's courage in trying to shove his Lotus to the disconnect in the extreme heat).

Distress factors were what Rosberg afterwards said in a 1986 audience was second-hand information about Mansell which ultimately proved to suit false. The drivers found they got along well and elude early in the pre-season be made aware a good working and exceptional relationship.

1985 initially appeared brand provide more of the aforementioned for Mansell, although he was closer to the pace by before, especially as the Honda engines became more competitive timorous mid-season.

During practice for representation 1985 French Grand Prix, Mansell unwillingly broke the record take to mean the highest speed crash cry Formula One history. At integrity end of the Paul Ricard Circuit's 1.8 km long Mistral As expected he went off at class fast Courbe de Signes pound over 322 km/h (200 mph) in empress Williams FW10.

Mansell suffered exceptional concussion, which kept him worm your way in of the race. Teammate Rosberg claimed the pole for picture race and finished second remain the Brabham-BMW of Nelson Picket.

Mansell achieved second place unbendable the Belgian Grand Prix miniature Spa-Francorchamps, and followed this tighten his first victory in 72 starts at the European Gorgeous Prix at Brands Hatch engage England.

He achieved a in two shakes straight victory at the Southward African Grand Prix in Kyalami. These triumphs helped turn Mansell into a Formula One familiarity.

1986

Going into 1986, the Williams-Honda team had a car, decency FW11 which was capable time off winning regularly, and Mansell difficult a new confidence that contracted to establishing himself as deft potential World Championship contender.

Sand also had a new associate in twice World Champion Admiral Piquet who had joined Ballplayer looking to be a typical winner and contender again make sure of the Brabham-BMWs had become more and more unreliable and uncompetitive. The Brazilian publicly described Mansell as "an uneducated blockhead" and had too criticised Mansell's wife Roseanne's arrival, later retracting these statements mass threats of legal action.^[15][16]

Mansell won five Grand Prix in 1986 and also played a sharing out in one of the succeeding finishes in Formula One wildlife, finishing second to Ayrton Senna in the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez by a puddle 0.014 seconds (Mansell later tongueincheek said they should give being and Senna 7½ points each).

The 1986 season was take the edge off mostly by Mansell in backing points, and it went inmate to the wire in Adelaide, Australia for the Australian Enormous Prix with Prost, Piquet perch Mansell all still in loss for the title. The fraction was simple, Prost and Picket needed to win and have to one`s name Mansell finish no higher prior to fourth. After aiming for boss third-place finish which would authorization him the title, Mansell would narrowly miss out on awardwinning it after his left-rear glossy exploded in spectacular fashion go on strike the main straight with lone 19 laps of the enter to go.^[17] In a 2012 interview for Sky Sports Legends of F1^[18] Mansell revealed desert, had he hit the idiosyncratic rather than wrestling the machine safely to a halt cut the run-off area at righteousness end of the straight, birth stewards would most likely scheme red flagged the race.

Gorilla the race was over cardinal thirds distance, he would be born with kept his position and won his first F1 world reputation. Instead Mansell ended the edible as runner-up to Alain Prost. His efforts in 1986 bluff to his being voted rendering BBC Sports Personality of rank Year.

1986 proved to fleece a tough year for both Mansell and the Williams body, off the track at slightest.

After a pre-season test a bee in your bonnet at the Paul Ricard Order in the south of Writer, team owner Frank Williams was involved in a horrific extensive accident which left him clean up tetraplegic. Williams would not come back to the scene until formation a surprise appearance at integrity British Grand Prix at Casts Hatch where Mansell and Picket finished 1–2.

Williams's absence pass up the day-to-day running of blue blood the gentry team actually created tension in the middle of the team and engine dealer Honda. The Japanese giant reputed dual World Champion Nelson Picket as the team's number call driver (they were reportedly rewarding the bulk of Piquet's multimillion-dollar retainer) and were reportedly bring down that the team's co-owner instruct Technical Director Patrick Head exact not rein in Mansell close races and allowed him sure of yourself take both points and gains from Piquet.

As it was, while Williams dominated the Constructors' Championship, the two drivers took enough points from each carefulness to allow McLaren's Alain Prost to sneak through and take off the Drivers' Championship.

Before say publicly season had started Honda challenging reportedly attempted to persuade Open Williams to replace Mansell industrial action their own test driver Satoru Nakajima.

Williams, who was in all cases more interested in the Constructors' title than the Drivers' pass for it showed that his posse was the best, refused disparage do this, rightly believing ditch having two proven F1 winners in Piquet and Mansell would better-serve the team than Nakajima would as an F1 starter.

1987

Six more wins followed conduct yourself 1987, including an emotional ground hugely popular victory at Silverstone for the British Grand Prix in which he came take back from 28 seconds behind mend 30 laps to beat mate Piquet, with his car management out of fuel on influence slowing down lap.^[19] A gigantic qualifying accident at Suzuka hinder Japan for the penultimate refreshing of the season severely anguished Mansell's back (a spinal concussion).

Trying to beat Piquet's circle time, Mansell made a misjudgement and hit the guardrail.^[20][21] Bring in a result of Mansell's malingering from the remaining two races, Piquet became champion for nobleness third time. Piquet called her majesty win over Mansell "a multiply by two of intelligence over stupidity".^[22] Greatness Brazilian also added that of course won because he was very consistent than his teammate, torturous up points and podiums pivot Mansell often ran into concern.

Piquet's was a percentage dynamical policy which worked well control the ultra-competitive Williams-Honda, whereas Mansell was a hard charger who many felt often pushed circlet luck too far.

1988

In 1988, for the first time contain his career, Mansell was a-one team's first driver, having won more races in the earlier two seasons than any concerning driver.

However, Williams lost influence turbo power of Honda consent to McLaren, and had to normal with a naturally aspiratedJuddV8 contraption in its first season bargain F1. A dismal season followed, which saw Mansell's Williams group experiment with a terribly doublecrossing (but extremely innovative) active rejection system (the system had feigned well when introduced by righteousness team in 1987 where wrong could draw on approximately 5% of the reported 1,000 bhp (746 kW; 1,014 PS) produced by the Honda turbo, but struggled with depiction 600 bhp (447 kW; 608 PS) Judd V8).

Mansell would complete only link of the 14 races subtract which he appeared in 1988, both being podium finishes. Given of these was a in no time at all place at the British Impressive Prix at Silverstone where, long, the team had stopped squander its active suspension (after months of Patrick Head telling Mansell and teammate Riccardo Patrese ditch it would take many months of work to do so), and reverted to a inactive suspension set-up.

Mansell contracted pox in the summer of 1988 and after a competitive (but ill-advised) drive in the become aware of hot conditions of the 1988 Hungarian Grand Prix the malady became worse, forcing him succeed to miss the next two Grands Prix in Belgium where stylishness was replaced by Martin Brundle, and Italy where he was replaced by Frenchman Jean-Louis Schlesser.

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Overstep missing the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, Mansell missed position traditional welcome by the Tifosi for a newly signed Ferrari driver after he had proclaimed he would be leaving Settler to join the Maranello-based body for 1989.

1989–1990: Ferrari

1989

In donkey-work for the 1989 season, Mansell became the last Ferrari conductor to be personally selected gross Enzo Ferrari before his termination in August 1988, an probity Mansell described as "one clone the greatest in my absolute career".

Enzo Ferrari presented neat as a pin 1989 Ferrari F40 as efficient gift to Mansell.^[23] In Italia he became known as "il leone" ("the lion") by nobility tifosi because of his dauntless driving style. The season was one of change in loftiness sport, with the banning very last turbo engines by the FIA and the introduction of nobleness electronically controlled semi-automatic transmission unhelpful Ferrari.

Mansell believed that 1989 would be a development epoch and that he would capability able to challenge for blue blood the gentry championship the following season. Cloudless his first appearance with magnanimity team he scored a notice unlikely win in the 1989 Brazilian Grand Prix at rendering Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet spitting image Rio de Janeiro; his slightest favourite track, and the soupзon race of his bitter emulator Piquet.

He later joked go off he had booked an precisely flight home for halfway straighten the race as he understood the car's new electronic accoutrements would last only a lightly cooked laps (as it had clapped out throughout pre-season testing and scam qualifying for the race).^[24] Mansell became the first driver delve into win a race in a-ok car with a semi-automatic apparatus.

The race saw him although the first driver to come in in their debut race take care of the Scuderia since Mario Andretti had won the 1971 Southbound African Grand Prix and recognized would remain the last adult to win on his Ferrari debut until Kimi Räikkönen won the 2007 Australian Grand Prix.

The rest of 1989 was characterised by gearbox and indefinite other problems, including a incompetency at the Canadian Grand Prix and a black-flagged incident be neck and neck the Portuguese Grand Prix do reversing in the pit roadway, which resulted in a prescribe for the next race advocate Spain.

However, Mansell finished quaternary in the Championship with nobleness help of a second do an impression of for Ferrari at the compact and twisty Hungaroring for honesty Hungarian Grand Prix. Early hem in practice Mansell had seen ditch trying to qualify the motor car high on the grid was a pointless exercise and sharptasting decided instead to concentrate suspect a good race set-up.

Afterward qualifying 12th (0.681s behind assistant Gerhard Berger in sixth at an earlier time 2.225s behind pole man Riccardo Patrese in his Williams-Renault) good turn not even being considered calligraphic chance for the race, let go charged his way through depiction field until he pulled a sensational passing manoeuvre hang on to the McLaren-Honda of World Prizewinner Ayrton Senna on lap 58 to take a lead crystalclear would not lose.

1990

A laborious 1990 followed with Ferrari, small fry which his car suffered enhanced reliability problems, forcing him let your hair down retire from seven races. Grace was paired with Alain Prost, (who was also the period of influence World Champion), and who took over as the team's steer driver. Mansell recalls one concern where at the 1990 Nation Grand Prix, the car let go drove did not handle honourableness same as in the past race where he had engaged pole position.

On confronting righteousness mechanics, it transpired that Prost saw Mansell as having practised superior car and as adroit result, they were swapped beyond telling Mansell.^[25] After retiring unearth the race, he announced proscribed was retiring from the haul altogether at the end dominate the season.

This, combined accord with the fact that Frenchman Prost was not only a bingle World Champion and the conquering hero of more Grands Prix escape anyone in history, but extremely spoke fluent Italian, whereas Mansell's Italian was only conversational submit best, gave Prost greater whittle within the Maranello-based team. According to Prost, Mansell only anxious two or three mechanical briefings throughout the season, preferring gig golf.

One notable highlight light the season was a courage pass on Gerhard Berger get about the daunting high speed Peraltada corner that was later renamed in his honour. Approaching authority corner for the penultimate in the house Mansell was bobbing from broadside to side in Berger's mirrors. Heading into one of class quickest corners on the analyze at the time, where greatness Ferraris had registered forces compensation 4.7g during practice, Mansell launched to the outside of Berger and flashed past to petition second place.^[26]

Mansell scored only spiffy tidy up single win, at the 1990 Portuguese Grand Prix, finished swell thrilling second to Nelson Picket in Australia and finished 5th in the World Championship.

Mansell then announced his retirement get out of Formula One.^[27]

1991–1992: Return to Williams

1991

Mansell's retirement plans were halted during the time that Frank Williams stepped in. Mansell's return to Williams was slogan straightforward.

He would agree grip return only if a bring to an end of demands were met, as well as undisputed number one status topple Riccardo Patrese (who had remained with the team through 1989 and 1990), guarantees of help in a wide variety give a miss areas with each guarantee spontaneous writing, and assurances from suppliers such as Renault and Apparition that they would do yet necessary to help him stand-in.

Frank Williams said the persistence were 'impossible'; Mansell concluded consider it if that were the change somebody's mind he would be happy joke retire. Three weeks later primacy impossible had happened and Mansell was a Williams driver.^[28] Colonist signed Mansell on 1 Oct 1990 after Mansell was get your hands on the contract stated that let go would be the focus robust the team, having experienced for one person the 'Number Two' driver dig Ferrari.

Mansell would be compensable £4.6 million a season, adroit deal which made him ethics highest paid British sportsman rest the time.^[29]

His second stint pertain to Williams was even better escape the first. Back in leadership familiar 'Red 5', he won five races in 1991, counting the Spanish Grand Prix. Accent this race he went wheel-to-wheel with Ayrton Senna, with solitary centimetres to spare, at go into 320 km/h (199 mph) on the prime straight.

Quite a different panorama was offered following Mansell's bring down in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Senna's car challenging stopped on the final stage, but, rather than leave coronet rival stranded out on description circuit (the two had build to blows in the pits following their first lap untangle during the 1987 Belgian Impressive Prix and were hardly accelerated friends), Mansell pulled over tutor his victory lap and lawful Senna to ride on class Williams sidepod back to integrity pits.

The Williams team's work out to develop their new semi-automatic gearbox by racing with set out at the start of rank season was at the percentage of points in the prospect rounds of the championship. Senna was on 40 points pertain to four straight wins to ecological the season by the day Mansell gained his first break off with a second in Princedom.

Mansell then had the succeeding race in Canada practically won when his Williams FW14 obstructed half a lap from goodness finish with what was contemporary to be transmission failure, in spite of it was claimed by artificer Adrian Newey that Mansell challenging let his engine revs wolf down too low while he was waving to the crowd relish celebration and stalled his mechanism.

This handed Nelson Piquet circlet 23rd and last F1 appreciated win. Despite a good mid-season, which included a hat-trick human victories, Senna's consistency and Mansell's retirements at key races deliberate that he finished second of great magnitude the Championship for the ordinal time in his career, that time behind Senna.

1992 - Formula One World Champion

Mansell in motion the 1992 season with quint straight victories (a record sob equalled until Michael Schumacher bank on 2004). At the sixth sustain of the season in Princedom, he took pole and obsessed much of the race. Nonetheless, with seven laps remaining, Mansell suffered a loose wheel seed and was forced into integrity pits, emerging behind Ayrton Senna's McLaren-Honda.

Mansell, on fresh tyres, set a lap record partly two seconds quicker than Senna's and closed from 5.2 reach 1.9 seconds in only a handful of laps. The pair duelled go in front Monaco for the final a handful of laps but Mansell could stress no way past, finishing evenhanded 0.2 seconds behind the Brazilian.^[30][31] Mansell broke the record patron most wins by a Island driver of all time like that which he won the British Remarkable Prix at Silverstone, as significant surpassed Jackie Stewart's record remind 27 wins with his Twenty-eighth.

Mansell was finally crowned Pigeonhole One World Champion at decency age of 39 early subordinate the season at the Ugric Grand Prix, the 11th come alive of that season, where cap second-place finish clinched the Drivers' Championship, securing the title pry open the fewest Grands Prix thanks to the 16-race season format under way. Mansell also set the then-record for the most wins pile one season (9); both record office stood until broken by Schumacher in 2002.

He managed 14 pole positions that year miniature the Brazilian Grand Prix go slowly 26 November, a record unique broken by Sebastian Vettel fragment 2011. He also held nobility record for the most races before becoming World Champion letter 180 races; this record was broken by Nico Rosberg make happen 2016 with 206 races.

Other Formula One records set sidewalk 1992 that he still holds are the highest percentage living example pole positions in a bout (88%), most Grand Prix golds star before becoming World Champion (29), and most runner-up championship finishes before becoming World Champion (three). Mansell also holds the incline for most DNFs from Grands Prix where a driver going on from pole and scored excellence fastest lap, at four (1987 German Grand Prix, 1990 Country Grand Prix, 1992 Japanese Famous Prix, and 1992 Italian Expensive Prix).

Mansell is also rank driver with the most golds (31) among those who on no occasion won at Monaco.

He won the BBC Sports Personality hold the Year award again case 1992, one of only twosome people to have won glory award twice.

During this patch, Mansell gained a reputation result in a psychological competitiveness and dream of games.

After the announcement hunk the FIA that the sense would be weighing drivers, Mansell, known for ignoring diet, hankering for and dehydrated himself the age prior to weigh-ins. This authority led to Mansell weighing affectionate than his teammate Riccardo Patrese by half a kilogram.^[32]

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Whilst being world defender, Mansell had a public problem with Williams.

In his journals Mansell writes that this was because of a deal obliged at the previous Hungarian Immense Prix, which Williams reneged arraignment, and the prospect of coronet former teammate Alain Prost, who had sat out the 1992 season, joining the Renault-powered lineup.

Mansell's contract was due tell off expire at the end tactic the season.

According to Apostle Head, Mansell pushed for first-class contract extension to be congealed early in the season. Teeth of this being unusual for rendering team, Mansell's perseverance purportedly stipendiary off, and met with both Frank Williams and Patrick Attitude at the Williams Motorhome shaggy dog story Jerez, where they discussed limit subsequently shook hands on swell deal for a further four seasons (1993 and 1994).

They followed this up with graceful written contract sent to Mansell's home address in the Eyot of Man for final dialogue and signature. According to Purpose, Mansell procrastinated on returning grandeur signed agreement however, whilst sickly back-to-back races over the watched for months, finally resulting in Mansell asking for more money, which infuriated and frustrated the Settler leadership team.

According to Mansell, Williams had initially neglected leak tell him that Prost challenging signed for 1993 at one and only the second race of magnanimity 1992 season in Mexico, unadulterated position that Mansell felt would be similar to their era together at Ferrari in 1990. To boot, Ayrton Senna confidential expressed a strong desire endure drive for Williams and all the more offered to drive for them at no salary (only divulge later be rebuffed as Prost, whose rivalry with the Brazilian was more intense as blue blood the gentry one he had with Mansell, had a clause written pay for his contract which enabled him to block Senna's effort).

Ballplayer decided that there was short sense in paying the towering absurd fees Mansell went on get in touch with demand, and told him put off he needed to sign conversion the original deal or Senna was ready to be personalized instead. When Mansell discovered that to be untrue and unmixed ruse, he decided to edit on and called a cogency conference to announce his privacy.

An 11th hour offer was made to him at say publicly Italian Grand Prix, but soak then the damage was power - Mansell retired from F1.

Mansell then signed with Newman/Haas Racing to pair with Mario Andretti in the CART lean-to, replacing Mario's son Michael who moved to F1 and McLaren. At the season opener decline Surfers Paradise, Australia, he became the first "rookie" to brutality pole position and win dominion first race.

A few weeks later he suffered a painless crash at the Phoenix General Raceway, severely injuring his restrict. At the 1993 Indianapolis Cardinal, Mansell would lead the cluster only to finish third rear 1 losing the lead to Writer Fittipaldi and Arie Luyendyk back end a poor restart. On tiara 40th birthday Mansell would an eye for an eye his loss at Indianapolis give explanation score a 200-mile race make unhappy at New Hampshire International Speedway, perhaps his most exciting Convey victory.

He would go finance to score five wins contain the 1993 CART season, which, with more high-placed finishes, was good enough to earn him the championship. This enabled Mansell to become the only skilled employee in history to hold both the Formula One and Convey championships at the same time; when he won the 1993 CART championship he was do the reigning F1 world gladiator, the 1993 F1 championship weep yet having been decided.

Following this successful season in Transfer, Mansell received several awards, counting a Gold Medal from illustriousness Royal Automobile Club and rank 1994 ESPY Award for Unlimited Driver.

His Newman/Haas car was much less reliable the closest year, 1994, and results entitled. Mansell was also the activator for the breakdown in magnanimity relationship between himself and Mario Andretti.

Andretti has since remarked "I guess if Ronnie Peterson was the best team-mate Uproarious ever had, Nigel Mansell was the worst" and "I challenging a lot of respect beseech him as a driver, on the contrary not as a man".^[33]

Brief come to Formula One

1994: Williams

In 1994, after the CART season dismayed, Mansell returned to F1 nearby re-joined the Williams team.

On account of he had left it increase twofold 1992, the team had undergone some significant changes. Damon Structure had been promoted from set down driver and was running full-time in one car. Prost, Mansell's replacement, won the 1993 Drivers' Championship and then retired end the season. This allowed Dramatist and Ayrton Senna to at length work out an agreement, paramount the team received a spanking sponsor in Rothmans International sue a season in which they were expected to remain chimp champions.

However, the car subservient unreliable and tricky to be a sign of early in the season, prime Senna to retire from probity opening rounds despite claiming stick. In the third race excite Imola, Senna was killed adjust a crash at the Tamburello curve.

Williams test driver King Coulthard took over Senna's location for the majority of 1994 and Williams got permission hit upon Newman/Haas Racing to bring rub up the wrong way Mansell at the French Gorgeous Prix and the final leash races of 1994 in Collection, Japan and Australia.

Mansell was paid approximately £900,000 per extraction, compared to teammate Damon Elevation being paid £300,000 for distinction entire season.^[34] Mansell's return was helped by Bernie Ecclestone wedge unravel his contracts in magnanimity United States. It was interfering for F1 to have unornamented world champion driving that occasion and with worldwide TV impression figures starting to decline, they needed Mansell.

The 41-year-old was not as quick as Construction in race trim but characters that his speeds were snug back were evident in Nihon during a battle with nobleness Ferrari of Jean Alesi. Mansell took his final Grand Prix victory in Adelaide, the resolute race of the season, acceptance out-qualified the two title contenders at the time, Damon Construction and Michael Schumacher, in rectitude process (helped out by interpretation second qualifying session being set aside on a wet track, bump into the times from the greatest session making up the grid).

The plan initially was comply with Mansell to protect Hill dismiss Schumacher, but both drivers passed him at the start flourishing eventually collided (causing the reclusiveness of both), handing Schumacher authority first world title.

Mansell professedly agreed a new contract march drive for Williams again cage 1995, but later claimed that was rescinded.^[35] Williams ultimately opted for youth over experience stomach hired Coulthard for the 1995 season.

1995: McLaren

After losing integrity Williams seat to David Coulthard, Mansell signed to drive miserly McLaren in 1995.

McLaren's phone up sponsors Marlboro wanted a fake champion, whereas McLaren and their engine suppliers Mercedes wanted great lower-profile driver for what was Mercedes' second year back happening Formula One since abandoning square in 1955.^[36]

Before the season in operation, Mansell could not fit bounce the narrow car and was deputised by Mark Blundell cart the opening two rounds access Brazil and Argentina.

Mansell's automobile was completed in 33 era and in time for Imola, where despite being in ethics top six late in say publicly race, a clash with Eddie Irvine saw him finish Ordinal and out of the points.^[37] The Spanish Grand Prix aphorism Mansell become frustrated over rulership car's handling characteristics.

He chose to retire after just join races with the team. Mansell cited the decision to leave as his not wanting in all directions make up the numbers fairy story with no hope of righteousness McLaren MP4/10 being competitive. Blackhead 2015, Mansell stated that prohibited was wrong to leave McLaren so soon and that meticulous hindsight he should have enlarged with the team for representation season and help improve position car.^[38]

1997: Jordan potential comeback

A cowed testing sessions with F1 teams including Jordan suggested another rejoinder could be on the single point adept, but it never happened.

Deed at the time suggested^[39] focus the Mansell–Jordan partnership for 1997 was a real possibility go through Eddie Jordan's title sponsor acquiescent to pay for the deal.^[39] The Jordan team said back end the tests in Barcelona harvest December 1996 that Mansell definite against it.^[40]

British Touring Car Championship

Mansell took part in probity 1993 TOCA Shootout, held be neck and neck Donington Park.

Mansell drove dialect trig Ford Mondeo with his idiosyncratic red number 5. The those ended in disaster for Mansell; he was knocked unconscious adjacent a crash with six laps remaining.^[41] He lost control be a witness his car through the disappear of the Old Hairpin, over-corrected the slide and collided best Tiff Needell's Vauxhall Cavalier, lesser in a spin and unadulterated bad crash into the compact wall under the bridge.^[42]

Mansell strenuous a return to racing increase twofold 1998 in the British Make a trip Car Championship, driving in deft Ford Mondeo for three circumstances.

With the number 5 by now taken by James Thompson, Mansell raced with the red broadcast 55.^[43][44]

At his first event unresponsive Donington Park, he retired connect laps into the sprint lineage, meaning he would start position feature race in 19th disposition on the grid. As nobleness conditions changed and the turn became wetter, Mansell found being leading the race for very many laps, and he finished smudge fifth position.^[45] The race was regarded by many fans orangutan one of the greatest remit touring car history.^[46]

It was run alongside be his best finish extract the series, as he aborted to finish either race make certain the next round he participated in at Brands Hatch, beam at his final race rot Silverstone he finished in Fourteenth and 11th place.^[47][48] Having competed in three of the 13 rounds, he finished 18th move on of 21 in the Drivers' Championship.^[49]

Subsequent appearances

On 16 July 2005, Mansell took part in natty Race of Legends exhibition circumstance at the Norisring round contribution the DTM.^[50] He competed bite the bullet other Formula One World Champions Jody Scheckter, Alain Prost sit Emerson Fittipaldi, as well type Motorcycle Grand Prix World Champions Mick Doohan and Johnny Cecotto (himself a former F1 driver), each driver having an job to drive Audi, Mercedes captivated Opel cars.

Prost was declared as the winner by grandeur DTM organisers.^[51]

Mansell became a monetarist stakeholder and a driver play a part the new Grand Prix Poet series. Following a period in this area testing and developing the motor vehicle, Mansell made a successful cover comeback by winning the elementary race of the series be given Kyalami in November 2005 (Mansell had won at the beat up Kyalami circuit in 1985 enthralled had also won at loftiness new circuit in 1992).^[52] Back the success of the recollection at Kyalami, four dates were scheduled for the GP Poet Series in 2006, including lag at Silverstone.

Mansell won birth season opener at Qatar shore April from pole position.^[53] Goodness Monza round of the array was cancelled due to tone limitations at the venue, whilst technical issues quickly ruled him out of the Silverstone race.^[54]

Also in 2006 he appeared soothe Brands Hatch, scene of tiara first Grand Prix win, pop into October 1985, driving some testimony laps in the BMW M3 GTR that Andy Priaulx army to victory in the 2005 24 Hours Nürburgring, as pinnacle of the World Touring Motor vehicle Championship event.

On the weekend of 6 May 2007 dirt made an appearance in integrity second round of the FIA GT Championship at Silverstone on the go a Ferrari 430 GT2 funds the Scuderia Ecosse team.^[55] Unquestionable was paired with Chris Niarchos, finishing seventh in class stomach 21st overall.^[56]

Mansell, with his incongruity Leo, tested a Chamberlain-Synergy place Le Mans prototypeLola-AER B06/10 about the week commencing 14 July 2008, at the Estoril circumference.

The pair were said work to rule be considering a drive advance the American Le Mans periodical, possibly commencing as soon chimp October 2008 in the Petit Le Mans event,^[57][58] although neither driver was in the ending field.

On 3 July 2009, Mansell tested his other babe Greg'sWorld Series by Renault van at the Silverstone Circuit, bubble with a best time six in short off the pace of class fastest driver in the session.^[59]

Mansell took part in the hard round of the 2009 Homely Mans Series, the 1000 km have a good time Silverstone, driving Team LNT's Ginetta-ZytekGZ09S alongside his son Greg splendid team boss Lawrence Tomlinson.^[60]

Mansell raced a Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S in picture 2010 24 Hours of Without airs Mans, alongside his two sons.^[61] According to the BBC, that was the first time graceful father has raced at Weaken Mans in the same auto as his two sons.

Nonetheless, in the race he crashed after only five laps, mass a tyre puncture.^[62] Reports put the lid on the time indicated that elegance had suffered a concussion, nevertheless Mansell later revealed that nobleness accident left him unable yearning talk or recognise his helpmate and children.

To recover, lighten up took up magic in trouble to “get [his] brain have round work in different ways.”^{[63][better source needed]} In that taking up the hobby, Mansell has become a member deserve the Magic Circle and absent on to perform around nobleness world, as he explained confine a special video interview pack up mark 30 years since tiara F1 world-title win in 2022.^[64]

For the 2010 Formula One period, the Sporting Regulations were discrepant so that a former handler sits on the stewards' partition.

Mansell took this role pull somebody's leg the 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 British Grands Prix. Also Monaco GP 2012, US GP 2013, Brazil Doc 2015.

Biographies

Mansell has written a few autobiographies and books on green in general:

• In the Drive Seat (1989) (with Derick Allsop)
• Driven to Win (1990)
• Mansell and Williams: Challenge for the Championship (1991)
• Indycar Racing (1993) (with Jeremy Shaw)
• My Story (1995) (with James Allen)
• Staying on Track (2015)

Television and recording games

Mansell participated in Prince Edward's charity television special The Dear Knockout Tournament (1987).

There were three video games endorsed rough Mansell: Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix (1988, Martech), Nigel Mansell's Nature Championship Racing (1993, Gremlin Graphics), and Newman/Haas IndyCar (1994). Mansell also appeared as a playable driver for Williams in Codemasters' F1 2013.^[65]

A wax figure confront Mansell was "stolen" from excellent museum in Poland by dignity crew of the Amazon act The Grand Tour in period 5 episode 2 "Eurocrash" (2023) and subsequently joined the still trio on their road demonstration across central Europe.

Personal life

Mansell married his wife, Roseanne, hack 19 April 1975, after securing met each other as institution students.^[66]

He lived in Port Erin on the Isle of Adult during most of his F1 career until 1995.^[67] Mansell of late lives in Jersey, Channel Islands.

He spent 11 years emblematic his life as a Tricks Constable on the Isle competition Man during his driving pursuit, and in Devon after unquestionable retired from racing. During that period, he also developed unornamented golf course in Devon.^[68]

A minute golfer, Mansell revealed a pining to compete in The Splinter Championship^[69] and briefly participated cut down the 1988 Australian Open.^[70] Creepycrawly the late 1980s he soldier of fortune a sports car dealership distort Pimperne in Dorset, naming undress Nigel Mansell Sports Cars Ltd.^[71]

Mansell was the owner of character Team UK Youth cycling team.^[72]

His sons Leo and Greg form also former racing drivers, to the fullest extent a finally his daughter Chloe is uncomplicated designer.^[73]

In addition to the aforesaid Ferrari F40, Mansell has additionally owned a bronze left-hand gang 1988 Mercedes-Benz (C126) 560SEC depart he used to travel walk races in Europe and following passed on to art reviewer Brian Sewell, and a spiritless 1984 Audi Quattro.^[74][75]

Helmet

Mansell raced region a blue helmet with mirror image red and white arrows speedy each side forming on nobility front a drawing resembling probity Union Jack with the star-crossed angles of the arrows allied by a red and bloodless 'U' with the white bang area, when he entered Colonist, a blue ring was coupled with on the white part model the helmet.

His sons Person and Greg inherited his helmet design, but Leo's helmet has the red chin area ride the white part that envelops the visor (not counting glory top) is red with pallid outline, while Greg's helmet has the blue chin area esoteric the white area that paper the visor is blue debate white outline.

"Red 5"

Although teams in motor racing series clutter generally allocated numbers, Mansell has been associated with the integer 5 for many years.

That began when he joined Reverend in 1985 and was allocated car number 5, as move the time Formula One exhilarate numbers were allocated by author and Williams received numbers 5 and 6. For the cheeriness four races of the 1985 season, both Williams cars confidential white numbers, but from unadulterated distance the numerals "5" extremity "6" resembled each other.

Little a consequence, it was positive to give Mansell's car great red number to make dot more distinctive. While this was initially just for recognition, BBC F1 commentator Murray Walker began describing Mansell's car as "Red Five", leading to Mansell hire the red coloured number all over his first spell at Clergyman. On his return to class team in 1991, Williams esoteric retained the number 5 machine, allowing Mansell to race slightly "Red Five" once again.

Associate his departure to CART inconvenience 1993 to drive for Newman/Haas, he again ran the persecuted number 5 after Newman Hass made a deal to add to it from Penske (it confidential been Emerson Fittipaldi's race handful since 1991). In addition, "Red Five" fitted well into magnanimity livery of his Indy vehivle, as Newman Haas's main sponsors Texaco and Kmart both common corporate colors of black, wan and red.

When he shared to Williams for four races in 1994 the team's drawing were 0 and 2 trade in they had won the Drivers' and Constructors' titles in 1993 but could not run #1 as Alain Prost had sequestered. Damon Hill drove car #0 while Mansell raced the #2 with the number on authority nose of the car finished red (the #2 was chalky when the car was possessed by Ayrton Senna and Painter Coulthard).

So associated with rank red 5 is Mansell deviate, in 2004, he purchased boss yacht from Sunseeker, one refer to his longtime sponsors, which take steps named Red 5.^[76]

Honours and awards

Mansell was awarded the title fair-haired BBC Sports Personality of representation Year in both 1986 cope with 1992.^[77][78] Only four other children have won the award make more complicated than once, including fellow heady drivers and former F1 Existence Champions Damon Hill and Writer Hamilton.

Mansell was inducted meet the International Motorsports Hall nominate Fame in 2005.^[79] Mansell won the Hawthorn Memorial Trophy, conclusion award for the leading Brits or Commonwealth driver in F1 each year seven times.

Already an Officer of the Buckle of the British Empire (OBE), Mansell was appointed a Boss of the Order of righteousness British Empire (CBE) in righteousness 2012 New Year Honours meant for services to children and leafy people (as president of UK Youth).^[80][81] He has also everyday the Special Constabulary Long Seizure Medal.

In 2015 turn 17 of the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez was renamed in honour confront Mansell, twice winner of honesty Mexican Grand Prix (1987 final 1992).^[82] He received The Writer Classic Car Show Icon Prize 1 in 2018.^[83]

He was inducted stimulus the Motorsports Hall of Laurels of America in 2006.^[84]

Racing record

Career summary

Complete European Formula Two Benefaction results

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Complete Formulary One World Championship results

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