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 Nigel Mansell - out to show the world
Mansell was dominant in the next race at Estoril, but a mistake in changing a wheel and eventual disqualification pretty much ended Nigel's chance of grabbing the 1991 title from Senna.
Nigel won the pole, set the race's fastest lap and built a huge lead from the start when he lost his braking and discovered what he thought was a puncture on the 70th of 78 laps.
Mansell was helped out of the car and on the way to the paddock, he stopped by the McLaren pit and raised hell with Ron Dennis, claiming Senna had knocked him off course.
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 Mr Boy | Nigel Mansell Bio
Mansell started from pole, he was running high enough to clinch the title when he suffered a puncture at about 180 mph.
Nigel set out to win the championship from the start, beating Ayrton Senna's record of four wins at the start of a season by winning the first five races.
Nigel is undoubtedly one of the greater drivers in the history of Formula 1.
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 Funo!: Biography of Nigel Mansell
Nigel Mansell was born on 8th of August 1953 in Upton-on-Severn.
In 1980, when Nigel Mansell had signed a test-driver contract with Lotus, he was hoping to get the vacant second seat alongside Mario Andretti, who was competing his last season with Lotus, but Chapman gave that cockpit to Elio de Angelis and Mansell had still to wait for his chance.
Chapman and Nigel Mansell became very close friends and the quite, but very hard working Mansell had a very good relation to the team, something, which is unfortunately not very normal in today’s Formula 1.
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 F1A&G - Nigel Mansell
Nigel Mansell salvaged his F1 career by mortgaging his home, illustrating the determination that on the track earned him the sobriquet “Il Leone” from the Tifosi and the enduring allegiance of British Formula One fans.
Mansell's early years with Lotus and Williams were a learning period in which this hot-tempered Brit mastered the craft of F1 racing the traditional way — with mistakes — as in his slide into the Armco at a rain-filled 1984 Monaco while leading in the JPS Lotus.
Mansell's aggressive overtaking moves earned him the affectionate titles "IL Leone" (The Lion) from the Ferrari Tifosi, who embraced him as one of their own, and "Red 5," for the number worn on his Canon-Williams-Renault during the 1992 championship season.
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 The Official Formula 1 Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Mansell sneaked out of hospital (telling the nurses he was going to the toilet) and raced on.
For Mansell (who never physically attacked Piquet as he had Ayrton Senna after they collided at Spa), the highlight of 1987 was his scintillating late race charge to beat his least favourite Brazilian at Silverstone.
Mansell was simply unstoppable, setting lap records 11 times in the final moments as he reeled in the other Williams.
www.formula1.com /archive/halloffame/driver/43.html   (1125 words)

  
 The Nigel Mansell Pages
Nigel Mansell was originally brought into Formula One by the legendary Colin Chapman of Team Lotus and had a career marked by close misses, tragic accidents and equipment failure, and to date the most dominant single season ever by an F1 World Champion.
Mansell's early years with Lotus and Williams were a learning period in which this hot-tempered Brit mastered the craft of F1 racing the traditional way -- with mistakes -- as in his slide into the Armco at a rain-filled 1984 Monaco while leading in the JPS Lotus.
Mansell's aggressive overtaking moves earned him the affectionate titles "Il Leone" from the Ferrari Tifosi, who embraced him as one of their own, and "Red 5," for the number worn on his Canon-Williams-Renault during the 1992 championship season.
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 Nigel Mansell
Nigel Mansell, der Mann, der für alles in seinem Leben kämpfen musste, warf zum ersten und einzigen Mal das Handtuch.
Nigel Ernest Mansell is the hero of the middle-class.
Nigel Mansell, the man, who had to fight for everything in life, for the first and only time threw the towel.
www.research-racing.de /nigel.mansell.htm   (972 words)

  
 Nigel Mansell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mansell was paid approximately £900,000 per race, compared to Williams' lead driver at the time, Damon Hill being paid £300,000 for the entire season.
Mansell won the season opener at Qatar in April 2006 from pole position.
Mansell was awarded the title of BBC Sports Personality of the Year in both 1986 and 1992.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nigel_Mansell   (3861 words)

  
 Mansell, Nigel
Mansell was disappointed when the 1980 seat alongside Mario Andretti went to the late Elio de Angelis, but he was given an opportunity in a third Lotus in the Austrian Grand Prix.
Mansell was given a full-time drive the following year, becoming close friends with Chapman before the latter's death in December 1982.
Mansell set a record 14 pole positions in the season and won nine races, clinching the title in Hungary, only the 11th of the 16 races.
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 CNN.com - Mansell secures 'Masters' success - Nov 13, 2005
Mansell, 52, led the 30-lap race from start to finish and held off the challenge of Brazil's Emerson Fittipaldi to win by less than half-a-second.
Mansell, who won the F1 world championship in 1992 and won at Kyalami in 1985 and 1992, never looked like relinquishing the lead although Fittipaldi pushed him hard, particularly on the last lap.
Mansell had been the quickest driver in qualifying on both Friday and Saturday despite suffering from a stomach bug.
www.cnn.com /2005/SPORT/11/13/msport.mansell   (466 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > Features > News Feature > Nigel Mansell profile
Nigel carved himself into the hearts of millions of Britons, who had stayed up through the night to watch the championship showdown between Nigel, Nelson Piquet and Alain Prost.
Nigel was out of the race, his left rear tyre had disintegrated at close to 200mph.
And yet, despite his moods, Nigel is universally respected for a remarkable talent which only became truly obvious when the confidence gained from winning races pushed him into a new league.
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 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Nigel Mansell
Mansell would stand on the gas and wring every ounce of speed from a car, racing wheel-to-wheel with the fiercest rival and exhibiting the tenacity that prompted the selective Italian fans, 'the tifosi', to bestow upon him the sobriquet Il Leone (The Lion) during his days with Ferrari.
Mansell came up the hard way in racing, investing all his own money as he attempted to climb the greasy pole from the lower ranks.
A curious ragbag of contradictory emotions, Nigel Mansell was a determined driver whose character shortcomings sometimes obscured his achievements.
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 BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | Mansell criticises farce at US GP
Nigel Mansell says Formula One bosses should have reached a compromise to prevent the farce that led to just six cars starting the US Grand Prix.
Mansell told the Daily Mail Michelin had showed "integrity" in refusing to race their tyres and said the teams "could not be blamed" for withdrawing.
Mansell, who raced in America after retiring from F1, said he was "disgusted and deeply saddened" to see the sport in such a state of disarray.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/4113818.stm   (375 words)

  
 Shell Oils Grand Prix of Europe - 1985 - Grand Prix Racing - the whole story
No-one was happier than Nigel Mansell when it was announcd that the Grand Prix of Europe of 1985 would be staged at Brands Hatch.
When Mansell and Rosberg lined up on the grid they were on the second row with just Senna and Piquet ahead of them.
For the remaining 66 laps Nigel didn't put a foot wrong and the 120,000 strong crowd stood as one to salute the Briton's determination.
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 Nigel Mansell - 1993 "Indianapolis 500" qualifications
Seeing it brought back all kinds of memories of the first of Nigel Mansell's two appearances in the "Indianapolis 500." On the placard with information about Mansell and the Newman - Haas K Mart Havoline Lola - Ford he almost won the 1993 "500" with I discovered something new.
The car Nigel drove in the 1993 "500" is the same one Al Unser tried to qualify the next year at Indianapolis immediately before he decided to retire as a driver.
Nigel Mansell brought so much attention to the Speedway from the media that it was unlike anything I'd seen before.
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 Nigel Mansell News - Dunkeswell, East Devon, Blackdown Hills   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Nigel Mansell retired with 31 victories in F1, the third highest number at that time, behind Prost and Senna.
Nigel Mansell meets stiff opposition for new race track plans in East Devon.
Nigel Mansell offers resignation to BMW due to spat with BMW competitor's father.
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 Nigel Mansell quiz -- free game
Nigel won more races than anyone else during the 1987 Formula One season.
Nigel only finished in the points twice in 1988, once for second place at Silverstone.
For 1993 Nigel moved to the CART World Series and became the first man to win the F1 championship and CART series in consecutive years.
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 Nigel Mansell - Linksheaven F1 Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
I was one of the original Mansell Mania brigade in the early ninties.
Nigel Mansell is apparently being linked up with ITV as Murray Walker's replacement for 2002.
Nigel would be too high profile, and if he was a good comentator he would have done it already.
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 Texaco/Havoline 42 Racing Nascar History Information
Speed came naturally to Nigel Mansell, the British-born son of an aerospace engineer.
Nigel’s breakthrough as a Formula One racer came in 1985, when he led the season with five wins and missed the overall title by two points.
The early 1990s were a banner time for Nigel, as he picked up five wins and a second-place finish for the title in 1991, and a year later broke the record for most wins in a season with nine -- six of them, start to finish.
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 Nigel Mansell Returns to Grand Prix Racing || Racing Bulls - Unofficial Red Bull Racing News and Views
Nigel will be re-united with many of his past adversaries for the inaugural race which takes place at the legendary Kyalami circuit on November 13th — ‘The Altech Grand Prix Masters of South Africa.
Nigel Mansell is one of the greatest drivers of the time.
For some reason Mansell has always had to prove himself to a small minority of britains, their a sad bunch really they couldn't seem to accept the way nigel got the crowd wild with exitment.
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 F1 Rejects - The 'Hang Up the Keys' Award
Mansell finally fits into the 1995 McLaren (left), only to realise what a damn stupid idea the whole charade was (right).
When Mansell finally made his McLaren debut at Imola, he qualified a dismal 10th while team-mate Mika Hakkinen was 5th, and in the race he finished out of points, a lap down.
Peter Windsor suggests that Mansell only delivers if his ego is nurtured, and the point is, no team in any category of motorsport will be willing to take on a 40+ whiner any more.
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 BBC NEWS | UK | England | Devon | Mansell go-kart ambition blocked (via CobWeb/3.1 vn1.cs.wustl.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Mr Mansell is due to consider appealing or whether to develop revised plans.
Mr Mansell has said he was very sympathetic to residents, assuring them noise would be muffled by a metal fence, and noise limits would be monitored to ensure environment limits were observed.
Mr Mansell was unavailable for comment, but a spokesman said he would now consider whether to lodge an appeal against the decision or to bring in smaller scale plans.
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 Full Throttle » Blog Archive » Nigel Mansell Hot, Hot, HOT!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Britain’s Nigel Mansell took 1st place Saturday at the Losail International Raceway in Qatar at what many have described as the hottest race in living memory.
Mansell, who started from pole, led the incident packed race from the beginning and recorded his second consecutive victory following his win at the inaugural round in South Africa.
Nigel did what any driver would do and today he got away with it.
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 A winning formula for Mansell: On Sunday, Nigel Mansell is expected to win the French Grand Prix. Should the credit go ...
A winning formula for Mansell: On Sunday, Nigel Mansell is expected to win the French Grand Prix.
Nigel Mansell, the British motor racing driver, made history this year by winning the first five Grand Prix of the 1992 Formula One season.
Few motor racing experts doubt that Mansell is driving better than ever for the Williams team.
www.newscientist.com /article/mg13518284.500.html   (319 words)

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