Nigel Mansell

Nigel Mansell CBE
Mansell at the 2015 Mexican Grand Prix.
Nationality	British
Born	Nigel Ernest James Mansell (1953-08-08) 8 August 1953 (age 63) Upton-upon-Severn, United Kingdom
Formula One World Championship career Active years 1980–1992, 1994–1995 Teams Lotus, Williams, Ferrari, McLaren Entries 191 (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
CART IndyCar World Series Years active 1993–1994 Teams Newman/Haas Racing Starts 31 Championships 1 (1993) Wins 5 Podiums 13 Poles 11 Fastest laps 4 Championship titles 1993 CART IndyCar World Series champion, CART Rookie of the Year Awards 1993 Royal Automobile Club Gold Medal, ESPY for Best Driver
24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 2010 Teams Beechdean Mansell Best finish DNF

Nigel Ernest James Mansell, CBE (/ˈmænsəl/; born 8 August 1953) is a British former 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, 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.

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, and is seventh overall on the Formula One race winners list behind Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, Alain Prost, Sebastian Vettel, Ayrton Senna 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, ESPN.com ranked him 24th on their "Top 25 Drivers of All Time" list. He was also ranked No. 9 of the 50 greatest F1 drivers of all time by the Times Online on a list that also included such drivers as Prost, Senna, Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark.