Nigel Mansell
Nigel Ernest James Mansell, CBE (/ˈmænsəl/; born 8 August 1953) is a British retired 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 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.
| Nigel Mansell CBE | |||||||
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Mansell in 2014 | |||||||
| Born | Nigel Ernest James Mansell 8 August 1953 Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England | ||||||
| Championship titles | |||||||
| FIA World Drivers' Championship (1992) CART Championship Car (1993) Major victories Michigan 500 (1993) | |||||||
| Formula One World Championship career | |||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||
| Active years | 1980–1992, 1994–1995 | ||||||
| Teams | Lotus, Williams, Ferrari, McLaren | ||||||
| Entries | 192 (187 starts) | ||||||
| Championships | 1 (1992) | ||||||
| Wins | 31 | ||||||
| Podiums | 59 | ||||||
| Career points | 480 (482) | ||||||
| Pole positions | 32 | ||||||
| Fastest laps | 30 | ||||||
| First entry | 1980 Austrian Grand Prix | ||||||
| First win | 1985 European Grand Prix | ||||||
| Last win | 1994 Australian Grand Prix | ||||||
| Last entry | 1995 Spanish Grand Prix | ||||||
| Champ Car career | |||||||
| 31 races run over 2 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 1st (1993) | ||||||
| First race | 1993 FAI IndyCar Grand Prix (Surfers Paradise) | ||||||
| Last race | 1994 Monterey Grand Prix (Laguna Seca) | ||||||
| First win | 1993 FAI IndyCar Grand Prix (Surfers Paradise) | ||||||
| Last win | 1993 Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix (Nazareth) | ||||||
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| 24 Hours of Le Mans career | |||||||
| Years | 2010 | ||||||
| Teams | Beechdean | ||||||
| Best finish | DNF (2010) | ||||||
| Class wins | 0 | ||||||
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, behind Lewis Hamilton with 103 wins, and is eighth overall on the Formula One race winners list, behind Hamilton, Michael Schumacher, Max Verstappen, 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.
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, and was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2005.