Nigel Mansell
Race car driver, Author
1953 –
Who is Nigel Mansell?
Nigel Ernest James Mansell, CBE is a retired British racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship and the CART Indy Car World Series. 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 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 sixth overall on the Formula One race winners list behind Michael Schumacher, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso. He held the record for the most number of 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, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network ranked him 24th on their top drivers of all-time.
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- Born
- Aug 8, 1953
Upton-upon-Severn - Also known as
- Nigel Ernest Mansell
- Nigel Mansell OBE
- The Lion
- Il Leone
- Nigel Ernest James Mansell
- Parents
- Spouses
- Roseanne Mansell
(1975 - )
- Roseanne Mansell
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- England
- Profession
- Lived in
- Upton-upon-Severn
- Birmingham
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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