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|name=Nigel Mansell |image=Nigelcropped.jpg |caption=Mansell at the 1991 United States Grand Prix |nationality=UK British |birth_date=8 August 1953(age 62) |Years=1980 � 1992, 1994 � 1995 |Team(s)=Lotus, Williams, Ferrari, McLaren |Races=191 (187 starts) |Championships=1 (1992) |Wins=31 |Podiums=59 |Points=480 (482) |Poles=32 |Fastest laps=30 |First race=1980 Austrian Grand Prix |First win=1985 European Grand Prix |Last win=1994 Australian Grand Prix |Last race=1995 Spanish Grand Prix

Nigel Mansell

Nigel Mansell
Personal information
NameNigel Mansell
Formula One World Championship career
Active years1980 � 1992, 1994 � 1995
TeamsLotus, Williams, Ferrari, McLaren
Races191 (187 starts)
Championships1 (1992)
Wins31
Podiums59
Career points480 (482)
Pole positions32
Fastest laps30
First race1980 Austrian Grand Prix
First win1985 European Grand Prix
Last win1994 Australian Grand Prix
Last race1995 Spanish Grand Prix
NameNigel Mansell
CaptionMansell at the 1991 United States Grand Prix
NationalityUK British
Birth Date8 August 1953(age 62)
Years1980 � 1992, 1994 � 1995| Team(s)=Lotus, Williams, Ferrari, McLaren
Races191 (187 starts)
Championships1 (1992)
Wins31
Podiums59
Points480 (482)
Poles32
Fastest Laps30
First Race1980 Austrian Grand Prix
First Win1985 European Grand Prix
Last Win1994 Australian Grand Prix
Last Race1995 Spanish Grand Prix

Nigel Mansell

Years | Team(s)=Beechdean Mansell
Best FinishDNF

Nigel Mansell

Racing Driver
NameNigel Mansell
Debut seasonCART, 1993
Former teamsNewman/Haas Racing
Starts31
Wins5
Poles11
Best finish1st in 1993
Previous seriesFormula One (1982 � 1992; 1994)
Championship titlesCART IndyCar World Series champion, CART Rookie of the Year (1993)
AwardsRoyal Automobile Club Gold Medal, ESPY for Best Driver (1993)

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Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE (born 8 August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England) is a British 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, being the first person to win the CART title in his debut season, making him the only person to hold both titles 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 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. He was also ranked #9 of the 50 greatest F1 drivers of all time by the Times Online on a list that also included such drivers as Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark.

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. He has since competed in additional sports car races with his sons, Leo and Greg, including the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans.

To date, 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.


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