Nigel Mansell
Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE (born 8 August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire) is a British racing driver from England who won both the Formula One World Championship (1992) and CART World Series (1993). He is the only person in history to hold both titles simultaneously, and was the first person to win the CART title in his debut season. During the early nineties, Mansell was commonly known, by the British media especially, as Our Nige.
His career in Formula One spanned 15 seasons, with his final two full seasons of top-level racing being spent in the CART series. Mansell remains the most successful British Formula One driver of all-time in terms of race wins with 31 victories, and is fifth overall on the Formula One race winners list behind Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher, Alain Prost, and Ayrton Senna. He was rated in the top 10 Formula One drivers of all time by Murray Walker, who was a Formula One commentator for 50 years.[1] In 2008, American sports television network ESPN ranked him 24th on their top drivers of all-time.[2]
Mansell raced in the GP Masters series and signed a one-off race deal for the Scuderia Ecosse GT race team to drive their number 63 Ferrari430 GT2 car at Silverstone on 6 May 2007.
Nigel Mansell Media
Mansell at the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix
Mansell during practice for the 1985 European Grand Prix
Mansell driving a Williams FW12 at the 1988 Canadian Grand Prix
Nigel Mansell during his time with Scuderia Ferrari
Mansell driving for Ferrari at the 1989 Belgian Grand Prix.
Mansell gives Ayrton Senna a lift after winning the 1991 British Grand Prix.
Mansell in the CART series in 1993
Mansell competing in the 1994 Indianapolis 500
A McLaren MP4/10B, Mansell's last Grand Prix car
References
- ↑ Murray Walker's F1 Greats Video
- ↑ "Kinser, Mansell, Garlits, Lauda, and Muldowney set high standards". ESPN. Retrieved 2008-05-19.