Indy 500 - Mansell

Here's an interview before the 1994 INDY 500 start.

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Sports

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• Mansell
• 1994
• indy
• 500
• indianapolis
• nigel
• motor
• sport
• extreme

[fairclought7]

f1 champion and indycar champion in his first year. nuff said...

[X24RIDER]

LOL, Great answer from Nige,

[flipsidedogchop]

@Spaceace2001 Prost was favoured by Ferrari 100%

Mansell got all the dodgy spares while prost got the premium spares!

[mad122780]

I wish Nigel would have stayed in IndyCar longer.

[Spaceace2001]

@McLarenMercedes Schumacher had the control of his team and best engineers because he was the best driver and like attracts like. Mansell was a driver in the Graham Hill mould, lots of guts and determination but never in the league of the prost, senna or schumacher IMHO.

[Spaceace2001]

@McLarenMercedes Interesting points. To answer them in order, i don't think any driver lucks their way to 3 titles, Piquet was a great testing / development who developed a superb relationship with Gordan Murray and drove intelligent races. In 87/88 Piquet was recovering from a huge crash at Imola that left him unable to drive flat out, so instead he collected podium places. Mansell won more races but Piquet was champion, so cruising and collecting was the way to win a title.

[McLarenMercedes]

@Spaceace2001

As for 1987. Mansell won twice the number of races Piquet did and led almost three times the distance. Sure, I agree he went for an all or nothing approach which probably lost him the title, but cruising and collecting is no way for a driver to win titles.

Schumacher may be a complete driver but he aslo had complete control of his team and the best engineers and personel behind him too. Ross Brawn deserves more credit than he gets. Senna proved himself against Prost in the team

[McLarenMercedes]

Pardon me for disagreeing but in my mind Piquet got 3 lucky titles.

Reutemann had led almost the entire 1981 season and was on pole for the last race. In the race his gearbox developed a fault and he ended it in 7'th place outside the points. Meanwhile his team mate Alan Jones cruised to an easy victory in the same car. Piquet took 5'th and won the title with 1 point.

In 1983 one can question the legality of the fuel BMW was using in the Brabham and Prost's turbo broke in the last race too.

[Spaceace2001]

Everyone plays politics at Ferrari, u should know that. Prost beat Mansell for the same reason he beat Rosberg and Lauda at McLaren, he's the better driver. Blindingly fast, brilliant tactically & sympathetic to his machinery. Mansell was a gritty trier who tried too hard in 1990 and broke his car regularly trying to beat Prost and stay in the hunt. Same as Rosberg, Mansell underestimated Prost's speed and thought he would beat him in an identical car, he was wrong.

[yngwie503]

@Spaceace2001 i also just want to add that in 1990 prost was playing politics at ferrari to get the better car and they were swapped without telling mansell thats how prost beat him at ferrari that season

[darkarts59]

tosser

[Spaceace2001]

F1 titles are won or lost over a season not in one race, you could just as easily say Mansell lost the 86 title when he stalled his car on the grid in Mexico. Mansell was a a 'win or bust' driver who would rather risk breaking his car trying for an unrealistic win than playing the long game and getting a points finish. He's just not in the Prost league as a tactician, developer of a car and in terms of mechanical sympathy, witness their respective performances at Ferrari in 1990.