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Nigel Ernest James Mansell is a British former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1980 to 1995. Mansell won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1992 with Williams, and won 31 Grands Prix across 15 seasons. In American open-wheel racing, Mansell won the IndyCar World Series in 1993 with Newman/Haas Racing, and remains the only driver to have simultaneously held both the World…
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Born 8 August 1953 · Q10501
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“We have only got 20 cars on the grid. I am concerned because we want to attract more teams and more manufacturers to F1. Until there are at least 26 cars on the grid everyone should pay attention. It is a must that the teams and manufacturers are there year after year,”
“they are quite right to express their frustration”
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autohebdof1.com: 34 years ago, Nigel Mansell became F1 world champion
grandprix247: On this Day in Formula 1: Mansell crowned as Schumacher outsmarts McLaren, Hamilton dominates
autohebdof1.com: Nigel Mansell celebrates his 73st birthday, the Top 5 cars that made his career
AutoHebdo: Nigel Mansell celebra su cumpleaños número 73, los 5 mejores coches que hicieron su carrera
Yahoo! Sports: Nigel Mansell Says F1 Needs 26 Cars and V10s Again—And Calls Modern Overtaking “False”
Public attention spiked: 5,491 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.2× the usual 1,053, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Nigel Mansell interview: The doctor told me I had an hour to live” (The Daily Telegraph).
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The Daily Telegraph: Nigel Mansell interview: The doctor told me I had an hour to live
Public attention spiked: 3,326 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.2× the usual 1,053, with 0 article edits.
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ESPN: Nigel Mansell praises Lewis Hamilton and wants him to win an eighth world title
Yahoo! Sports: On this day: Ayrton Senna beats Nigel Mansell to victory by 0.01s
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Motor Trend: Drive Like Nigel Mansell with His 1992 Williams-Renault FW14B Formula 1 Car
Yahoo: Racing Legend Nigel Mansell Revs Up to Sell $4.35M Florida Mansion
“brilliant for Honda, brilliant for McLaren and brilliant for Jenson”
“needs to pay attention to what he”
“Red Bull are a winning team, they want to win and have the power of everybody else. Hopefully it will all be sorted out behind closed doors.”
Turn 17 of the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez was renamed in honour of Mansell, twice winner of the Mexican Grand Prix (1987 and 1992)
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Mansell stated that he was wrong to leave McLaren so soon and that in hindsight he should have continued with the team for the season and help improve the car
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Autoblog: Nigel Mansell's Ferrari F40 sells for $870k
Mansell appeared at Brands Hatch, scene of his first Grand Prix win, in October 1985, driving some demonstration laps in the BMW M3 GTR that Andy Priaulx drove to victory in the 2005 24 Hours Nürburgring, as part of the
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Purchased a yacht from Sunseeker, one of his longtime sponsors, which he named Red 5
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In the British Touring Car Championship, driving in a Ford Mondeo for three rounds
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Won the FIA Formula 1 Constructor Championship with Williams Racing (1994).
Awarded Best Driver ESPY Award (1994).
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After the CART season ended, Mansell returned to F1 and re-joined the Williams team
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The team's numbers were 0 and 2 as they had won the Drivers' and Constructors' titles in 1993 but could not run #1 as Alain Prost had retired
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Awarded Best Driver ESPY Award (1993).
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To drive for Newman/Haas, he again ran the red number 5 after Newman/Haas made a deal to acquire it from Penske (it had been Emerson Fittipaldi's race number since 1991)
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With Newman/Haas Racing, and remains the only driver to have simultaneously held both the World Drivers' Championship and the American open-wheel National Championship
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Won the FIA Formula 1 Constructor Championship with Williams Racing (1992).
Won the FIA Formula 1 World Championship with _Retired Motorsport (1992).
Won Segrave Trophy (1992).
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Awarded BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award (1992).
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The team had undergone some significant changes
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One of only four people to have won the award twice
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That Mansell still holds, as of 2025, are: the highest percentage of pole positions in a season (87
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With Williams, and won 31 Grands Prix across 15 seasons
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Williams had retained the number 5 car, allowing Mansell to race as "Red Five" once again
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For the first time in his career, Mansell was a team's first driver, having won more races in the previous two seasons than any other driver
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Won the FIA Formula 1 Constructor Championship with Williams Racing (1987).
Including an emotional and hugely popular victory at Silverstone for the British Grand Prix in which Mansell came back from 28 seconds behind in 30 laps to beat teammate Piquet, with his car running out of fuel on the sl
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Where it could draw on approximately 5% of the reported 1,000 bhp (746 kW; 1,014 PS) produced by the Honda turbo, but struggled with the 600 bhp (447 kW; 608 PS) Judd V8)
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Won the FIA Formula 1 Constructor Championship with Williams Racing (1986).
Awarded BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award (1986).
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And also played a part in one of the closest finishes in Formula One history, finishing second to Ayrton Senna in the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez by a mere 0
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Led to his being voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year
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And had also won at the new circuit in 1992)
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And was allocated car number 5, as at the time Formula One racing numbers were allocated by constructor and Williams received numbers 5 and 6
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Frank Williams hired Mansell to drive alongside Keke Rosberg as part of the Williams team, Mansell later saying "We have the greatest respect for each other
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Mansell finished in the championship top 10 for the first time, and took his first career pole position but still finished behind teammate de Angelis, who finished third, in the championship
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“The bottom dropped out of my world. Part of me died with him. I had lost a member of my family.”
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Driving a development version of the Lotus 81 used by the team, the Lotus 81B
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Mansell won six of the nine races he took part in, including his debut event at Mallory Park
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Mansell married his wife, Roseanne, on 19 April 1975, after having met as college students.
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Born 1953-08-08.
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