Nigel Mansell
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Nigel Ernest James Mansell, (born 8 August 1953) is a British former 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 over 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, and is seventh overall on the Formula One race winners list behind Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Fernando Alonso.
He held the record for the most poles set in a single season, which was broken in 2011 by Sebastian Vettel.
He was rated in the top 10 Formula One drivers of all time by longtime Formula One commentator Murray Walker.
In 2008, ESPN.com ranked him 24th on their "Top 25 Drivers of All Time" list.
He was also ranked No. 9 of the 50 greatest F1 drivers of all time by the Times Online on a list that also included such drivers as Prost, Senna, Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark.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. Mansell was inducted to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2005.
He is the current president of one of the UK's largest Youth Work Charities, UK Youth.
He is also President of the IAM (Institute of Advanced Motorists) and has been a Vice President of the British Racing and Sports Car Club since 1987.
In September 2014, it was announced that Mansell would be opening a Mitsubishi franchise on Jersey later in the month.
In September 2015 the organisers of the Mexican Grand Prix (which was returning to Formula One after a 23-year absence) announced that the final corner of the re-designed Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez circuit would be named after the 1992 Formula One World Champion and winner of the final race at the Mexico City circuit before it was dropped from the Formula One calendar for the 1993 season.
Personal life
Mansell has been married to Roseanne since 1975 after meeting as students.
He lived in Port Erin on the Isle of Man during most of his F1 career until 1995. Mansell currently lives in Jersey, Channel Islands. He spent 11 years of his life as a Special Constable on the Isle of Man during his driving career, and in Devon after he retired from racing. During this period, he also developed a golf course in Devon.
A keen golfer, Mansell revealed a desire to compete in the British Open Golf Championship and briefly participated in the 1988 Australian Open.
Mansell is the owner of the Team UK Youth cycling team.
Mansell appeared without his moustache in the first half of the 1988 season. After his official retirement from Formula One in 1995, he shaved it off. The moustache made a re-appearance when Mansell was interviewed by the BBC at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix.
His sons Leo and Greg are also former racing drivers, while his daughter Chloe is a designer.
Early life and career
Nigel Ernest Mansell was born in Upton-Severn, Worcestershire, where his parents, Eric and Joyce Mansell, operated a tea shop. He grew up in Hall Green, Birmingham.
Mansell got off to a rocky start in his racing career, relying on his own funds to help him get to the top of the charts. He went from a lot of success in kart racing to the disapproval of his father in the Formula Ford series. Mansell won six of the nine races he participated in in, including his debut at Mallory Park in 1976. Despite suffering a broken neck in a qualifying session at Brands Hatch, he continued racing for 42 years and finished 33 times before becoming the 1977 British Formula Ford champion. Doctors told him he would be impoverished near to quadriplegia and would never drive again. Mansell recovered from the hospital and returned to racing. He had resigned from his career as an aerospace engineer three weeks before, having sold the majority of his possessions to finance his Formula Ford's purchase. He was given the opportunity to race a Lola T570 Formula 3 car at Silverstone later this year. He came in fourth place and decided he was ready to step into a higher formula.
In 1978–1980, Mansell competed in Formula Three. Mansell's first season in Formula Three began with a pole position and a second-place finish. However, the vehicle was not competitive due to his team's commercial relationship with Unipart, which meant they had to use Triumph Dolomite engines that were vastly inferior to the Toyota engines used by the leading teams. He was fired from the team after three seventh-place finishes and a fourth in his last run. David Price Racing took the lead in the next season. He went on to finish eighth in the championship after winning the first time in the series at Silverstone in March. His racing was regular, but Andrea de Cesaris was involved in a major cartwheeling accident that he was unintentionally injured, but he was lucky to escape. He was hospitalized again this week, this time with fractured vertebrae.
Colin Chapman, the owner of Lotus, noticed him right away, and immediately after, concealing the severity of his injury with painkillers, Mansell did well enough during a tryout at Lotus, where he was pitted against a variety of other drivers to determine who would take the second seat as Argentine Carlos Reutemann was destined to go to Williams. Mansell was eventually promoted to become a test driver for the Norfolk-based Formula One team after driving 79 years old.