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British racing driver (born 1953)

Nigel Ernest James Mansell (; born 8 August 1953) 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 Drivers' Championship and the American open-wheel National Championship.

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 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. Mansell is the second most successful Brit

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Nigel Mansell won the world championship in 1992 following three near-misses in the previous six seasons. Despite the success he fell out with team owner Frank Williams and immediately departed F1 for IndyCar racing, where he won the title at his first attempt the following year.

Mansell’s gritty debut for Lotus in 1980 typified what was to follow: He pressed on in agony, sitting in petrol until his engine blew. But a top-three qualifying slot at Monaco the next year underlined his potential.

It was potential that took time to be realised. Lotus team owner Colin Chapman believed in Mansell, and his sudden death in December 1982 stunned the driver. Mansell remained at Lotus despite an increasingly hostile relationship with new team chef Peter Warr, who was eager to bring Ayrton Senna in to replace Mansell. This eventually happened at the end of 1984.

It had been a promising but ultimately frustrating season for Mansell. He might have won in Monaco had his bil not snapped out

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Nigel Mansell

Born

8 August 1953 (1953-08-08) (age 71)
Upton-on-Severn, England, UK

Nationality

Nigel Ernest James Mansell (born August 8, 1953 in Baughton, Upton-on-Severn, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom) is a former Formula One racing driver from the United Kingdom.

Mansell is the only person ever to have held a F1 and CART title simultaneously, as well as the only driver have driven solely for Team Lotus, Williams, Ferrari and McLaren, the fyra most successful teams in Formula One.

Racing career[]

F1 Career[]

After a successful period in kart racing and a brief career as an aerospace engineer, Nigel won the British Formula Ford Championship in 1977. In 1979, Nigel and his wife, Rosanna sold their house to finance his move into Formula 3.

Lotus: 1980–1984[]

Colin Chapman, his F3 manager, gave Nigel a path into F1 via his successful Lotus racing time, and in 1980 Nigel made his F1 debut in the Austrian GP driving for Lotus. It was a debut Nigel wo