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Nigel Mansell CBE
Mansell in 2014
Born
Nigel Ernest James Mansell (1953-08-08) 8 August 1953 (age 70) Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England
Championship titles
FIA World Drivers' Championship (1992) CART Championship Car (1993) Major victories Michigan 500 (1993)
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality
British
Active years
1980–1992, 1994–1995
Teams
Lotus, Williams, Ferrari, McLaren
Entries
192 (187 starts)
Championships
1 (1992)
Wins
31
Podiums
59
Career points
480 (482)[1]
Pole positions
32
Fastest laps
30
First entry
1980 Austrian Grand Prix
First win
1985 European Grand Prix
Last win
1994 Australian Grand Prix
Last entry
1995 Spanish Grand Prix
Champ Car career
31 races run over 2 years
Best finish
1st (1993)
First race
1993 FAI IndyCar Grand Prix (Surfers Paradise)
Last race
1994 Monterey Grand Prix (Laguna Seca)
First win
1993 FAI IndyCar Grand Prix (Surfers Paradise)
Last win
1993 Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix (Nazareth)
Wins
Podiums
Poles
5
13
10
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years
2010
Teams
Beechdean
Best finish
DNF (2010)
Class wins
0
Nigel Ernest James Mansell, CBE (/ˈmænsəl/; born 8 August 1953) is a British retired racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship (1992) and the CART Indy Car World Series (1993). Mansell was the reigning F1 champion when he moved to CART, becoming the first person to win the CART title in his debut season, and making him the only person to hold both the World Drivers' Championship and the American open-wheel National Championship simultaneously.
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 is the second most successful British Formula One driver of all time in terms of race wins with 31 victories, behind Lewis Hamilton with 103 wins, and is eighth overall on the Formula One race winners list, behind Hamilton, Michael Schumacher, Max Verstappen, Sebastian Vettel, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Fernando Alonso.[2] He held the record for the most poles set in a single season, which was broken in 2011 by Sebastian Vettel. He also remains the last Formula One driver to win a race over the age of 40, which was the 1994 Australian Grand Prix.
Mansell raced in the Grand Prix Masters series in 2005, and won the championship title. He later signed a one-off race deal for the Scuderia Ecosse GT race team to drive their number 63 Ferrari F430 GT2 car at Silverstone on 6 May 2007. He has since competed in additional sports car races with his sons Leo and Greg, including the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans, and was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2005.
^Up until 1990, not all points scored by a driver contributed to their final World Championship tally (see list of points scoring systems for more information). Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.
^"Lewis Hamilton happy to 'outsmart' Nico Rosberg at United States GP". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
Nigel Ernest James Mansell, CBE (/ˈmænsəl/; born 8 August 1953) is a British retired racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship (1992)...
just three races, compared to his teammate and main rival NigelMansell with six wins, but Mansell had to give up the challenge when he crashed in practice...
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1993 PPG Indy Car World Series champion, NigelMansell, and elder brother of fellow racing driver Greg Mansell. Leo and his younger brother have always...
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won seven of the sixteen races; his main challenger for the title was NigelMansell, who won five races in his first season back at Williams. Alain Prost...
fuel-starved race. 1987 saw Senna take pole position narrowly from Briton NigelMansell; his teammate Nelson Piquet had a huge crash at Tamburello, and although...
Piquet and NigelMansell. In 1986, at Adelaide in the last race of the season, he beat Mansell and Piquet of Williams to the title, after Mansell retired...
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during the 1991 and 1992 Formula One seasons. The car was driven by NigelMansell and Riccardo Patrese. The development of the Williams FW14 was prompted...
the 1990 Formula One World Championship. Driven by Alain Prost and NigelMansell, it won six Grands Prix. The 641 was a developed version of its predecessor...
Euroformula Open. His last name was British retired racing driver NigelMansell. Mansell did not achieve much karting success, his highest finish in the...
biggest news was Ayrton Senna's promotion to Lotus. He would replace NigelMansell who was signed by Williams. Brabham hired François Hesnault from Equipe...
in the penultimate week of September; this race was won by Briton NigelMansell. 1987 saw Prost win his 28th Grand Prix, breaking Jackie Stewart's 14-year-old...
issues and the efforts of Ayrton Senna prevented Williams team leader NigelMansell from taking the title. In 1992, there would be no problems, and with...
by CART under the name "IndyCar". The season consisted of 16 races. NigelMansell was the national champion as well as the Rookie of the Year. The 1993...
This was made legal when the first start was aborted after Briton NigelMansell stalled on the grid. Prost drove through the field to finish 2nd behind...
showing by having a fresh car. Peter Warr actually wanted to replace NigelMansell with Senna at Lotus, but their British-based title sponsor, Imperial...
Nelson Piquet and NigelMansell made it a force to be reckoned with. In 1986, the car won first time out in Brazil with Piquet, before Mansell laid down a title...
experienced F1 driver in history. At the age of 38 he was runner-up to NigelMansell in the 1992 Formula One World Championship, and third in 1989 and 1991...
Championship. The 59-lap race was won from pole position by local driver NigelMansell, driving a Williams-Renault. Gerhard Berger finished second in a McLaren-Honda...
and the Ferraris of NigelMansell and Alain Prost behind them. At the start, Senna led Berger, Boutsen, Prost, Patrese and Mansell. Boutsen passed Berger...
(Netherlands, France, Mexico 1963); and South Africa, France, Germany 1965), NigelMansell (South Africa, Spain, UK 1992) and Lewis Hamilton (China, Canada, UK...
and final championship in 1987 during a heated battle with teammate NigelMansell which left the pair's relationship sour. Piquet subsequently moved to...
five British Grands Prix and a spectacular performance from Briton NigelMansell in his first outing in a turbocharged Lotus, he started 16th and finished...
a Honda V10 engine. Ferrari completed the signing of British driver NigelMansell, taking the place of Michele Alboreto alongside Austrian Gerhard Berger...
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