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). Mansell was the
reigning F1 champion when he moved over to CART, being the first
person to win the
CART title in his debut
season, making him the only person in history to hold both titles
simultaneously. 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 fourth
overall on the Formula One race winners list behind
Michael Schumacher,
Alain Prost, and
Ayrton
Senna. He was rated in the top 10 Formula One drivers of all
time by longtime Formula One commentator
Murray Walker. In 2008, American sports
television network
ESPN ranked him 24th on
their top drivers of all-time.
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 Ferrari F430
GT2 car at Silverstone
on 6 May 2007.
As of
2008, he is the most recent inductee to the International
Motorsports Hall of Fame
from a country other than the US, having been
inducted in 2005.
He is the current President of one of the UK's largest Youth Work
Charities,
UK Youth.
Career
Born in
Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire,
Mansell spent 11 years of his early life as a Special Constable for Devon and Cornwall
Constabulary. He had a fairly slow start to his racing
career, using his own money to help work his way up the ranks.
After considerable success in kart racing, he moved to the
Formula Ford series to the disapproval of his
father.
In
1976, Mansell won 6 of the 9 races he took part in, including his
debut event at Mallory
Park
. He entered 42 races the following year and
won 33 to become the 1977 British Formula Ford champion, despite
suffering a broken neck in a qualifying session at Brands Hatch
. Doctors told him he had been perilously
close to
quadriplegia, that he would be
confined for six months and would never drive again. Mansell
discharged himself from the hospital and returned to racing. Three
weeks before the accident he had resigned his job as an
aerospace engineer, having previously
sold most of his personal belongings to finance his foray into
Formula Ford.
Later that year he was given the chance to
race a Lola T570 Formula 3 car at Silverstone. He finished fourth and decided that he was
ready to move into the higher formula.
Mansell raced in
Formula Three from
1978 - 1979. Mansell's first season in
Formula Three started with a
pole position and a 2nd place finish. However,
the car was not competitive, as a commercial deal with
Unipart required his team to use
Triumph Dolomite engines that were
vastly inferior to the
Toyota engines used by
the leading teams. After three 7th place finishes and a fourth in
his last race, he parted from the team. The next season saw him
take a paid drive with Dave Price Racing. Following a first win in
the series at Silverstone in March, he went on to finish 8th in the
championship. His racing was consistent, but a collision with
Andrea de Cesaris resulted in a
huge cartwheeling crash which he was lucky to survive. Again he was
hospitalised, this time with broken
vertebrae. His driving was noticed by
Colin Chapman, owner of
Lotus, and shortly after his accident, hiding the
extent of his injury with painkillers, Mansell performed well
enough in a tryout with Lotus to become a test driver for the
Formula One team.
Formula One
1980-1984: Lotus
Mansell's skill as a
test driver,
including setting the fastest time around Silverstone in a Lotus
car at the time, impressed Chapman enough to give him a trio of
starts in
F1 in
1980, driving a development version
of the Lotus 81 used by the team, the Lotus 81B. In his Formula One
debut at the
1980 Austrian
Grand Prix, a fuel leak in the cockpit that developed shortly
before the start of the race left him with painful first and second
degree burns on his buttocks. Car failures forced him to retire
from that race and his second, however an accident at his third
event at Imola meant he failed to qualify. Team leader
Mario Andretti wrote his car off before the
final race of the season and Mansell had to give up his car for
Andretti to compete in. Andretti announced he was leaving to move
to Alfa-Romeo at the end of the season leaving Lotus with a vacant
race seat.
Despite Mansell being unpopular with one of the team's backers,
David Thieme, and much speculation in
the press that
Jean-Pierre Jarier
would fill the vacancy, Chapman announced at the start of the
season the seat would be filled by Mansell.
Mansell's four years as a full-time Lotus driver were a struggle,
as the cars were unreliable. Out of 59 race starts with the team,
he finished just 24 of them. He managed a best finish of third
place which he obtained five times during the four years including
in Lotus' fifth race of the
1981 season, and only the seventh of
Mansell's Formula One career. Team mate
Elio de Angelis took a surprise win at the
1982 Austrian Grand Prix,
and was frequently faster than his less experienced colleague
Mansell.
During the
1982 season, Mansell planned to race in the 24 Hours of Le
Mans
sportscar event in order to earn extra
money. At the time Mansell was paid £50,000 a year and was
offered £10,000 to take part in Le Mans. Chapman believed that by
entering the Le Mans race, Mansell was exposing himself to
unnecessary risk and paid him £10,000 to not take part in the race.
Chapman extended Mansell's contract to the end of the
1984 season in a deal that made him
a millionaire.
As a result of the gestures such as the above, Mansell became very
close to Chapman and was devastated by his sudden death in 1982. In
his autobiography Mansell stated that when Chapman died, "the
bottom dropped out of my world. Part of me died with him. I had
lost a member of my family". Following Chapman's death
relationships at Lotus became strained, as replacement team manager
Peter Warr did not have a high regard for
him as a driver. Warr was not keen on honoring the last year of the
contract that Mansell had signed with Chapman. However, with
encouragement from Lotus' sponsors, John Player Special, it was
announced Mansell would be staying with the team.
In
1984, Mansell finished in
the championship top 10 for the first time, and took his first
career pole. At the
1984 Monaco
Grand Prix Mansell surprised many by overtaking
Alain Prost in a wet race for the lead, but soon
after retired from the race after getting off line and losing
control on the slippery painted lines on the road surface. Mid-way
through the season, the team's new managers signed
Ayrton Senna for the following year, leaving
Mansell with no race seat at Lotus. After receiving offers from
Arrows and Williams, and firstly turning down
Williams' offer, Mansell eventually signed for
them.
Mansell was remembered by many this year when he collapsed while
pushing his car to the finish line after the transmission failed on
the last lap of the
1984 Dallas
Grand Prix. The 1984 Grand Prix was the hottest on record, and
after 2 hours of driving in 104°F (about 40°C) conditions Mansell
fainted whilst pushing his car over the line to salvage a sixth
place finish (and thus 1 championship point) in a race he had
started from pole and led half of.
Mansell's final race with the Lotus team was heavily compromised
due to Warr's unwillingness to give Mansell the brake pads he
desired for the race. With 18 laps of the race remaining, and with
Mansell in second position, the brakes on his car failed. On
Mansell's departure, Warr was infamously quoted "He'll never win a
Grand Prix as long as I have a hole in my arse".
1985-1988: Williams
In
1985 Frank Williams snapped Mansell up to drive
alongside
Keke Rosberg as part of the
Williams team, Mansell later saying "Keke
was probably one of the best team-mates I've had in my career".
Mansell was given the now famous "Red 5" number on his car, which
he carried on subsequent Williams and
Newman/Haas cars and which was brought to
the public's attention mainly through
commentator Murray Walker and his enthusiastic commentary
for the
BBC.
1985 initially appeared to provide more of the same for Mansell,
although he was closer to the pace than before, especially as the
Honda engines became more
competitive by mid-season.
Mansell
achieved second place at the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps
, and followed this with his first victory in 72
starts at the European Grand
Prix at Brands
Hatch in England. He achieved a second straight victory at
the South African Grand
Prix in Kyalami
. These triumphs helped turn Mansell into a
Formula One star.
Going into 1986, the Williams-Honda team had a car capable of
winning on a regular basis and Mansell had established himself as a
potential World Championship contender. He also had a new team-mate
in
Nelson Piquet. The Brazilian
publicly described Mansell as "an
uneducated blockhead" and had also criticised his
wife, Roseanne. Unperturbed by Piquet's mind games, Mansell went on
to record five Grand Prix wins in 1986 and also played part in one
of the closest finishes in Formula One Grand Prix history,
finishing second to
Ayrton Senna in the
Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez by a mere 0.014 seconds.
The 1986 Formula One
World Championship went right down-to-the-wire in Adelaide
, Australia for the 1986 Australian Grand Prix with
Prost, Piquet and Mansell all still in contention for the
title. After aiming for a third place finish which would
guarantee him the title, Mansell would narrowly miss out on winning
it after his left-rear
tyre exploded in
spectacular fashion on the main straight with only 19 laps of the
race to go. Mansell ended the season as
runner-up to Alain Prost. His efforts in 1986 led
to him being voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
Six more
wins followed in 1987,
including an emotional and hugely popular victory at Silverstone in which he came back from 20 seconds behind in 20
laps to beat team-mate Piquet, with his car running out of fuel on
the slowing down lap. However, at the
Italian Grand Prix he missed a gear
and let Piquet, who was using an
active suspension car, through to win. A
heavy qualifying accident at Suzuka in Japan for the penultimate
race of the 1987 season severely injured Mansell's back (a spinal
concussion), and as a result of Mansell missing the remaining two
races, Piquet became champion for the third time even though he
failed to score any points in these two remaining races.
In
1988, Williams lost the
turbo power of Honda to McLaren
, and had to make do with a naturally-aspirated Judd engine. A
dismal season followed, which saw Mansell's Williams team
experiment with a terribly unreliable (but extremely innovative)
active suspension system. Mansell
would complete only two of the fourteen races in which he appeared
in the 1988 season, both being podium finishes.
Ironically, one of
these was a second place at the British Grand Prix
at Silverstone where the team had reverted to a
passive suspension set-up.
Mansell developed
chickenpox in the
summer of 1988 and after a competitive (but ill-advised) drive in
the very hot conditions of the
1988 Hungarian Grand Prix the
condition became even worse, causing him to miss the next two
Grands Prix.
1989-1990: Ferrari
In preparation for the
1989
season, Mansell became the last
Ferrari driver to be personally selected by
Enzo Ferrari before his death in August
1988, an honour Mansell described as "one of the greatest in my
entire career". Enzo Ferrari presented a 1989 Ferrari F40 as a gift
to Mansell.
In Italy
he became
known as "il leone" ("the lion") by the tifosi (Ferrari fans) due to his fearless
driving style. The season was one of change in the sport,
with the banning of turbo engines by the
FIA and
the introduction of the electronic gearbox by Ferrari.
Mansell believed that 1989 would be a development year and that he
would be able to challenge for the championship the following
season. In his first appearance with the team he scored a very
unlikely win in the
Brazilian
Grand Prix, his least favourite track and the home race of his
bitter rival Piquet. He later joked that he had booked aeroplane
tickets home for halfway through the race as he predicted the car's
new electronic gearbox would last only a few laps. Mansell became
the very first driver to win a race in a car with a semi-automatic
gearbox. He also remained the last man to win on his Ferrari debut
until
Kimi Räikkönen in the
2007 Australian Grand
Prix.
The rest of 1989 was characterised by
gearbox and various other problems which included a
disqualification at the
Canadian Grand Prix and a
black-flagged incident at the
Portuguese Grand Prix for
reversing in the pit-lane, which resulted in a ban for the next
race in Spain. However, Mansell finished fourth in the Championship
with the help of a memorable second win for Ferrari at the
Hungarian Grand Prix, where, after
concentrating on the race set-up of his car, he won after a
late-race pass on
Ayrton Senna after
starting 12th on the grid.
A tough
1990 followed with
Ferrari, in which he had more reliability problems with the car,
causing him to retire from seven races. In this season he was
paired with
Alain Prost, the reigning
World Champion, who took over as the team's lead driver and played
on Mansell's
inferiority
complex. Mansell recalls one incident where at the
1990 British Grand Prix, the car he
drove didn't handle the same as in the previous race where he had
taken pole position. On confronting the mechanics, it transpired
that Prost saw Mansell as having a superior car and as a result,
they were swapped without telling Mansell. After retiring from the
race, he announced he was retiring from the sport altogether at the
end of the season. Mansell obtained only a single win, at the
1990 Portuguese Grand
Prix and finished 5th in the world championship. His retirement
was cancelled when
Frank Williams
again stepped in. Williams signed Mansell on 1 October 1990 after
Mansell ensured the contract stated that he would be the focus of
the team, having experienced being the 'Number Two' driver at
Ferrari. Mansell would be paid £4.6 million a season, a deal which
made him the highest paid British sportsman at the time.
1991-1992: Williams
Mansell's return to Williams wasn't straightforward. Mansell would
only agree to return if a list of demands were met, including
undisputed number one status, guarantees of support in a wide
variety of areas with each guarantee in writing, and assurances
from suppliers such as Renault and Elf that they would do
everything necessary to help him win. Frank Williams said the
demands were 'impossible', Mansell concluded that if that were the
case he would be happy to retire. Three weeks later the impossible
had happened and Mansell was a Williams driver.
His second stint with Williams was even better than the first. Back
in the familiar 'Red 5', he won five races in
1991, most memorably in the
Spanish Grand Prix. In this race he
went wheel to wheel with Ayrton Senna, with only centimetres to
spare, at over on the main straight.
Quite a different
spectacle was offered following Mansell's victory in the British
Grand Prix at Silverstone. Senna's car had come to a halt on the final
lap, but, rather than leave his rival stranded out on the circuit,
Mansell pulled over on his parade lap and allowed Senna to ride on
the Williams side-pod back to the pits.
The Williams team's decision to develop their new
semi-automatic gearbox by racing
with it at the start of the season, was at the cost of points in
the opening rounds of the championship. Senna was on 40 points by
the time Mansell gained his first 6 in Monaco. Despite a good mid
season, which included a
hat-trick of
victories, Senna's consistency (and Mansell's retirements at key
races) meant that he finished second in the Championship once
again, this time behind Senna.
1992 would be Mansell's
finest season. He started the year with five straight victories (a
record equalled by
Michael Schumacher in
2004). At
Monaco, the sixth race of the season,
he took pole and dominated much of the race.
However, with seven
laps remaining, Mansell suffered a loose wheel nut and was forced
into the pits, emerging behind Ayrton Senna's McLaren-Honda. Mansell, on fresh tyres, set a lap
record almost two seconds quicker than Senna's and closed from 5.2
to 1.9 seconds in only two laps. The pair duelled around Monaco for
the final four laps but Mansell could find no way past, finishing
just two tenths of a second behind the Brazilian. Mansell was
crowned Formula One Drivers' Champion early in the season at the
Hungarian Grand Prix,
where his second place finish clinched the Drivers' Championship,
securing the title in the least number of Grands Prix since the
16-race season format started. This stood as a record until broken
by Schumacher in
2002.
Mansell also set the then-record for the most number of wins in one
season (9) and highest number of
pole
positions (14).
He won the
BBC Sports
Personality of the Year award twice, in 1986 and 1992, one of
only three people to do so.
CART IndyCar World Series
Nigel Mansell driving in the 1993 CART
IndyCar World Series
Despite being world champion, Mansell had a falling out with
Williams.
In his autobiography Mansell writes that
this was because of a deal made at the previous Hungarian Grand
Prix, which Williams reneged on, and the prospect of Frenchman
Alain Prost joining the
Renault-powered
team.
Williams had neglected to tell Mansell that Prost had signed for
1993 at only the second race of the 1992 season in Mexico, a
position that Mansell felt would be similar to their days together
at Ferrari. To boot, Williams had Senna offering to drive the
second car for free (although Senna found later he couldn't due to
Prost having a clause in his contract allowing him to veto the
move) and decided that there was little sense in paying the high
fees Mansell went on to demand. With the original offer revoked
Mansell, with no teams near the might of Williams, decided that
enough was enough. An eleventh hour offer was made to Mansell at
the Monza Grand Prix but by then the damage was done; Mansell
retired from F1.
Mansell consequently left to join the Newman/Haas
CART team in 1993.
He took over the seat of Michael Andretti, who coincidentally had
left CART to race in Formula One for
McLaren. At the season opener at
Surfers Paradise,
Australia, he became the first "rookie" to take
pole position and win his first race.
A few weeks later
however, he suffered a substantial crash at the Phoenix
International Raceway
, severely injuring his back. At the '93 Indianapolis
500
, Mansell would lead the race only to finish third
after losing the lead to Emerson
Fittipaldi and Arie Luyendyk after
a poor re-start. Later in the year however, Mansell would
avenge his loss at Indianapolis to score a 500 mile race victory at
Michigan, considered by many a tougher 500 mile race to win.
Mansell would go on to score five wins for the 1993 CART season,
which, with more high-placed finishes, was good enough to earn him
the championship. This enabled Mansell to become the only driver in
history to hold both the Formula One and CART championships at the
same time because when he won the 1993 CART Championship, he was
still 1992 F1 Champion as the 1993 F1 Championship hadn't been
decided. Mansell's victory over Mario Andretti and other American
drivers, coupled with 1991 CART champion Michael Andretti's failed
sojourn into F1, was seen by many as evidence of superiority of
non-US drivers.
Following
this successful season in CART, Mansell received several awards
including a Gold Medal from the Royal Automobile Club
and the 1993 ESPY Award
for Best Driver.
His Newman/Haas car was much less reliable the following year,
1994, and results suffered.
It was during this season that Mansell "wore
out his welcome" in the United States with glimpses of rude
behavior, particularly after he was knocked out of the Indianapolis
500. After the crash, he stormed out of the
track hospital, and refused medical care. When a reporter asked
Mansell if he had spoken with
Dennis
Vitolo, the driver who had crashed into him, Mansell replied,
"you speak to him." Subsequently, Mansell was set to sign
autographs at a K-mart (the primary sponsor of his car), but due to
a lack of demand, the event was cancelled. Mansell was also the
catalyst for the breakdown in the relationship between himself and
Mario Andretti. Mario has since
remarked "I guess if
Ronnie Peterson
was the best team-mate I ever had, Nigel Mansell was the worst" and
"I had a lot of respect for him as a driver, but not as a
man".
Return to Formula One
In 1994 Mansell made a Formula One comeback. After the untimely
death of Ayrton Senna, he
returned to Formula One with Williams replacing rookie
David Coulthard for the French Grand Prix
and the last three races of the season. 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's return was helped by
Bernie Ecclestone helping unravel his contracts in the United
States. It was important for F1 to have a world champion driving
that season and they needed Mansell. Mansell wasn't as quick as
Damon Hill in race trim but signs that his speed were coming back
were evident in Japan during a fantastic battle with the Ferrari of
Jean Alesi. Mansell took his final Grand
Prix victory, the
Australian
Grand Prix, which was the final race of the season having
out-qualified the two contenders for the title,
Damon Hill and
Michael Schumacher, in the process. The
plan was initially for Mansell to protect Hill from Schumacher, but
both drivers passed him at the start and eventually collided,
handing Schumacher his 1st World Title.
Williams had an option on Mansell's services for 1995 which Mansell
was sure they would take. However, Williams opted for youth over
experience and hired Coulthard.
1995: McLaren
Mansell was quick again and on the back of winning two titles, he
was still hot property. After losing the Williams seat to David
Coulthard, Mansell signed to drive for McLaren in
1995.
It was well documented that Mansell and Ron Dennis never saw eye to
eye but with McLaren's sponsors wanting a world champion, Dennis
had only two options, the second option, Schumacher, was already
taken which left Mansell. Media speculated from the start that they
wouldn't last together due to the two contrasting
personalities.
The season didn't start at all well, Mansell couldn't fit into the
car and wasn't able to race until Imola where he ran in the middle
of the field a good way off the pace of his team-mate
Mika Häkkinen. The 1995 McLaren
understeered heavily. Mansell's driving style relied on a car not
suffering from understeer so that he could brake and turn in to the
corner whilst braking, but the McLaren simply wouldn't do that. A
second race came with a similar outcome but outpaced and frustrated
with his car's
handling
characteristics, he chose to retire after just two races with the
team.Mansell cited the decision to retire as him not wanting to
make up the numbers and with no hope of the McLaren being
competitive.
A few testing sessions with F1 teams including Jordan suggested
another comeback could be on the cards but it never happened.
British Touring Car Championship
Mansell made a return to racing in 1998 in the
British Touring Car
Championship, driving in a
Ford
Mondeo for three rounds. As it was, the Ford was highly
uncompetitive - the manufacturer finished the season 7th out of 8
in the championship. With the number 5 already taken by
James Thompson, Mansell raced
with the red number 55.
At his
first event at Donington
Park
, he retired 3 laps into the sprint race, meaning he
would start the feature race in 19th position on the grid.
As the conditions changed and the track got wetter, Mansell found
himself leading the race for several laps and he finished in 5th
position. The race was regarded by many fans as one of the greatest
in touring car history.
It was to
be his best finish in the series, as he failed to finish either
race at the next round he participated in at Brands Hatch, and at his final race at Silverstone he finished in 14th and 11th place. Having
competed in 3 of the 13 rounds, he finished 18th out of 21 in the
drivers championship.
Subsequent appearances
On July 16, 2005, Mansell took part in a
Race of Legends
exhibition event at the Norisring round of the
DTM. He competed against
Jody Scheckter,
Alain Prost,
Mick
Doohan,
Emerson Fittipaldi
and
Johnny Cecotto, each driver
having an opportunity to drive the
Audi,
Mercedes and
Opel offerings. Prost was announced as the winner by
the DTM organisers.
Mansell became a financial stakeholder and a driver in the new
Grand Prix Masters series.
Following a period of testing and developing the car, Mansell made
a successful race comeback by winning the inaugural race of the
series in Kyalami in November 2005.
After the success of the race at Kyalami, four dates were scheduled
for the GP Masters Series in 2006, including one at Silverstone.
Mansell
won the season opener at Qatar
in April
2006 from pole position. The Monza round of the series was
cancelled due to noise limitations at the venue, whilst technical
issues quickly ruled him out of the Silverstone race.
He also
made a comeback to Brands
Hatch, scene of his first Grand Prix win, in May 2006,
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 World Touring Car
Championship event.
On the weekend of May 6, 2007 he made an appearance in the second
round of the
FIA GT championship at
Silverstone driving a
Ferrari 430 GT2
for the Scuderia Ecosse team. He was paired with Chris Niarchos
finishing 7th in class and 21st overall.
Mansell,
with his son Leo, tested a
Chamberlain-Synergy team Le Mans
prototype Lola-AER B06/10 during the
week commencing 14 July 2008 at the Estoril
circuit
and the pair were said to be considering a drive in
the American Le Mans series,
possibly commencing as soon as October 2008 in the Petit Le Mans event, although neither driver
was in the final field.
On July
3, 2009, Mansell tested other son Greg's World
Series by Renault car at the Silverstone circuit, setting a best time six seconds off the
pace of the fastest driver in the test session.
On August 19th, 2009, it was announced that Mansell would be taking
part in the last round of the 2009 Le Mans Series, the 1000km of
Silverstone, driving Team LNT's Ginetta-Zytek GZ09 alongside his
son Greg and team boss Lawrence Tomlinson.
Endorsements
On October 1st, 2009 Nigel appeared as the 'Face of Euronics'
Awards
Mansell was awarded the title of
BBC Sports Personality of the
Year in both 1986 and 1992. Only two other people have won the
award twice, one of which being fellow racing driver and former F1
World Champion
Damon Hill.
Mansell was inducted
into the International Motorsports Hall of
Fame in 2005.
Racing career results
Formula One World Championship results
(
key) (Races in
bold indicate pole position, races in
italics indicate fastest lap)
American Open-Wheel racing results
CART
() (Races in
bold indicate pole position)
Complete Grand Prix Masters results
(
key)
Notes
- Murray Walker's F1 Greats Video
- http://www.ukyouth.org/whoweare/oursupporters.htm
- Mansell, Nigel My Autobiography page 88 Collins Willow
ISBN 0-00-218497-4
- King Nigel Mansell Statistics
- Mansell, Nigel My Autobiography page 120 Collins
Willow ISBN 0-00-218497-4
- grandprix.com: United States GP, 1984
- Mansell, Nigel My Autobiography page 141 Collins
Willow ISBN 0-00-218497-4
- Mansell, Nigel My Autobiography page 199 Collins
Willow ISBN 0-00-218497-4
- Mansell, Nigel My Autobiography page 222 Collins
Willow ISBN 0-00-218497-4
- Hamilton, Maurice Frank Williams page 186 Macmillan
ISBN 0-333-71716-3
- Autocourse 1992 pp.150, 153
- Hamilton, Maurice Frank Williams page 244 Macmillan
ISBN 0-333-71716-3
- Redshoes Archive:James Thompson - Honda Accord
1998
- Redshoes Archive:Nigel Mansell - Ford Mondeo
1998
- BTCC Pages:Donington Park June 14 1998
- Crash.net: Reid 150 Not Out
- BTCC Pages:Brands Hatch August 31 1998
- BTCC Pages:Silverstone September 20 1998
- BTCC 1998 Season
- . Note: In-depth information on times set by each driver do not
appear to have been formally published by the organisers.
- Mansell secures GP Masters glory
- Mansell wins first ever Grand Prix in
Qatar
- Odds against Mansell in GP Masters
- 1986 bbc.co.uk: BBC Sports Personalility of the
year
- 1992 bbc.co.uk: BBC Sports Personalility of the
year
- Waltrip Heads Class of 2005 at Motorsports Hall of
Fame
References
- Hamilton, Maurice Frank Williams Macmillan ISBN
0-333-71716-3
- Mansell, Nigel My Autobiography Collins Willow ISBN
0-00-218497-4
- BTCC
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- Crash.net
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