Nigel Mansell

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Nigel Mansell CBE
Mansell at the 2015 Mexican Grand Prix
Born	Nigel Ernest James Mansell (1953-08-08) 8 August 1953 (age 71) Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England
Spouse	Roseanne ​ (m. 1975)​
Children	3, including Leo and Greg
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)[a]
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)
Wins Podiums Poles 5 13 10
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	2010
Teams	Beechdean
Best finish	DNF (2010)
Class wins	0

Nigel Ernest James Mansell CBE (/ˈmænsəl/; born 8 August 1953) is a British former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1980 to 1995. Mansell won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1992 with Williams, and won 31 Grands Prix across 15 seasons. In American open-wheel racing, Mansell won the IndyCar World Series in 1993 with Newman/Haas Racing, and remains the only driver to have simultaneously held both the World Drivers' Championship and the American open-wheel National Championship.

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 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. 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 105 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.^[1] He held the record for the most pole positions set in a single season, which was broken in 2011 by Sebastian Vettel. He also remains the last Formula One driver to win a race over the age of 40, which was the 1994 Australian Grand Prix.

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.

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