The Nigel Mansell Story

[@Ingens_Scherz]

Hard to believe the great man is 67 now. He'll never be older than the man you see in this video to me!
One word sums him up: courage and talent. Two, TWO word sum him up: courage, talent and determination. Um, THREE words sum up the great Nigel Mansell...
Etc. ;)

[@Stringer1506]

People often say Nigel is boring etc, but he just treated racing like it was his job, he came across as a regular guy you’d meet in your local

[@JasmineTonie]

The 80s and 90s were the best of Formula 1 🏎 thanks for uploading! X

[@mrkipling2201]

I started watching F1 in 1984. Nigel Mansell is my favourite F1 driver ever. The blown tyre in Adelaide in 1986 showed how great he was. The way he was able to control the car after his rear tyre blowing out at 190mph took a lot of skill. Especially when you see how slowly and safely he parked the car at the side of the track. Piquet can keep his old flannel to himself as well. I always found him big headed and arrogant, but without the charm and humour.

[@stuartbritton4811]

Piquet was never arrogant and always charming and funny. He was countercurrent to the other drivers and had a freethinking head on him. Prost liked him, but Mansell, Senna, Balestre and the do-gooders hated his nonchalance and nonconformity, mistaking it for arrogance.

[@michaelpashut1696]

@@stuartbritton4811 You are so on the money re Piquet.... Always a friendly guy who was easy going.... The British Press created a false narrative about Nelson. Niki, Alain absolute legends liked Nelson. See how those who worked with him rated him.... One small correction.... Balestre loved Piquet and had a huge soft spot for him.... as did Ken Tyrell Sid Watkins and Denis Jenkinson.

[@MarceloSantos-bb9ql]

For me, the 80's was without a doubt the best generation of Formula 1 drivers. I have a replica helmet of Mansel, Senna, Lauda, ​​Prost, Gilles...

[@neilperry2224]

He's a true drivers driver, and definitely deserves a knighthood rather than Lewis Hamilton. He's driven with a broken back at his lotus test drive, a house hole in his back that he drove with in his 2nd Yr of INDYCAR. And has a medical wound paper on his injury as no-one has survived from.

[@tosehoed123]

Dont have to put anyone down to state your point. Not a hamilton fan either, and might in the end agree with you, but I think we have to be better examples as fans than that. We have too much hate already in sports, especially against Lewis and Max

[@jmfjcas6014]

The golden era of F1. Compared to the 80-90s, the current F1 looks like they doesn't exist...

[@sergioleone3583]

F1 does NOT exist anymore. Or should I say, "F1" may exist, but Grand Prix/Grand Epreuve racing does not.

[@mrkipling2201]

Agreed. F1 now is a joke. So many rules and gimmicks that you need a university degree to understand it. What's all the Sprint race nonsense?? Or drivers being disqualified, demoted 5 places, given penalties for the smallest reasons. You used to have 16 races in a season. Pre qualifying on Friday morning, practice on Friday afternoon, proper qualifying on Saturday and the race on the Sunday. Simple. The top 6 places would win points. That's what happened when I watched F1, from 1984 to the end of the 1996 season. Those years were the best era of F1. In my opinion anyway.

[@tristantopambudi3186]

Brilliant documentary.
What a champ 🏆

[@maxmulsanne7054]

One of the original Bad Asses. I'm a (American) Alan Jones fan who loved AJ's style of aggressive "attacking" his competitors which is why I was sad and angry to see him retire.
But thankfully Mansell and Rosburg finally got into some competitive contraptions to keep me happy and entertained. So yeah, as a fan , I'll never forget this guy.
Especially since he came over here to CART (kicked ass) and showed my friends, family and co-workers why I loved F1 so much - because that game was no joke. And neither was Mansell of course.

[@bandingo652]

Nigel is the man. He never backed down from any challenge. Being able to Watch him race when I was a kid was great stuff.

[@angelorota2771]

I always loved this man :) nice memories

[@alansmith4729]

Lovely to see a great driver who has personality , amusing and charm , seems lacking in today's drivers.

[@numsig]

personality and charm? Great driver, but if there's a more boring monotonous man alive I'd be surprised... he makes Steve Davis look like Jim Carrey.

[@MrMiD.Life.Crisis]

Thank you Rick. You're a legend for uploading this. I had it on VHS years ago.
Hope you're good.

[@paulwheatley141]

He is truly one of the best of his generation and one real legend of Formula one. One who won one world championship makes one a very special one. I for one loved watching Nigel.

[@john2ndname]

Some say that Mansell was a tosser on the comm radio during races..but it was because he was so emotional and gave 110 % all the time!...Mansell was always exciting to watch anytime he was on a track.. Even when Mansell went to Indy I was so excited!.. in 93 he changed indycar that year alone! ...what a roller coaster ride that was!...

[@sergioleone3583]

The same folks who say that probably write columns praising Lewis Hamilton. ahem...
Il Leone was my favorite driver of that time, along with Jean Alesi, and Nigel Mansell will ALWAYS be one of the greats for sure. And yes, four oval wins in his rookie Indycar season to go with the championship (and a road course win too) was something else!

[@stevecox8948]

My hero deserves a knighthood

[@aston-martin-internationalist]

^^^^^ x 1million.

[@sergioleone3583]

These days, I'd say our Nige is better off w/o one. When folks like Il Grande John Surtees never received a knighthood, but others like Lewis Hamilton, Mick Jagger, and Elton John do, I'd say you're in better company withJohn Surtees.

[@jamescummins5824]

💪😐 Be Big Man!!!

[@shadeburst]

That's what they did a thousand years ago. Move on.

[@stevedawson256]

I still have his F1 championship winning season on VHS every single race plus highlights. Including the great Murray walker commentary. When F1 was proper wheel to wheel racing .

[@niold1685]

Me two, incl. a TShirt 👍

[@timelorego4595]

Coloca aí no YT 🇧🇷. 👍🏽👍🏽

[@zolfodor4835]

Wheel spinning at 160mph in 6th gear 😳😳😳 I absolutely loved watching Nigel Mansell,golden era of F1,what a driver ❤️❤️

[@tonydownunder5703]

I’ve watched this video about 100 times now over the years and every time I watch it I think WOW 🤗

[@MaciusSzwed]

Spin recovery the likes fighter pilots have never even seen! Bloody hell, respect Nigel. And my hero was always Senna, nice to see it from Nigels perspective.

[@MetaFootballTV]

Real drivers.

[@hhgv]

What an Champion in an era I will never forget!

[@kacieogle513]

He's such a great speaker.. I could listen to nigel all day

[@annnee6818]

He seems like a genuinely nice man, such a rarity among these jobs that are all about ego. But a few of them managed.

[@daytona955joop]

Great film, great memories. I watched Nigel win at Brands in 85 and 86, silverstone in 87 and 2nd in 88. In my opinion the best era in F1 and along with Prost, Senna and Piquet the best drivers. Thank you for the memories and what a driver you were!!!

[@jamescummins5824]

love this guy very inspiring an all or nothing kind of guy!!!
💪😐 Be Big Man!!!

[@AlejandroPerez-lp6qq]

El último exponente de la generación dorada de la F1. Mucho más pilotopor delante de corredores como Prost , Piquet , que se codearon con corredores sublimes. Lo tengo entre mis preferidos al León Inglés .

[@douglas2437]

I must say Nigel tended to have a fair amount of bad luck.

[@sen5908]

I seen him race live in 92, was feet away from his car at the end of the race,one of the best moments of my life

[@TheStan80]

That spin he saved was not a one off either. I remember Mansell doing it 3 or 4 times in his career.

[@reds005]

Adelaide & Imola spring to mind

[@killereaglez8115]

like senna,he had a un teachable talent

[@colinstewart1432]

The world's fastest moustache

[@shadeburst]

The difference between a healthy self-image and egotism: Our Nige always came across as a mentally very healthy person. He had more than his share of bad luck or he would have won the World Championship at least three times.

[@davegiles2610]

Great Upload. I used to have this on VHS back in the day. Personally I think it's one of the best Mansell videos. It's a nice touch using Simon Taylors commentary too for Jerez 1986. I'm guessing Taylor was either commentating live, or this footage is from the individual GP Reviews, that used to get sold separately from 84-87.

[@TheStan80]

I have it on VHS to back in the day i can still remember the cover. I was 11 year old and i begged my family for it.

[@davegiles2610]

@@TheStan80 cool, yep the cover sticks in the mind doesn't it. It was a well put together film I thought. Think I must have been 10 or 11 when I got mine-built up quite a collection of Mansell vids back in the day🙂

[@mrkipling2201]

My favourite racing driver ever. Prost considers him the fastest one lap driver ever.

[@michaelpashut1696]

Prost does not consider him fastest one lap driver.... You make up shit..... Prost does not rate Nigel at all.....

[@obath6953]

Greart driver. I found his comment that he was a millionaire by 1982 fine but then confused later when he said he wasn't rich and he wasn't poor.

[@brianbooher7318]

O bath
A million dollars isn't being rich it's really not that much money it was probably a lot more back in 1982 but still not a lot of money you can be a millionaire one minute and broke and 6 months if you don't want your s*** I'm sure he was referring that he's well off but he didn't have the wealth the king or something has

[@LennyJohnson5]

Nigel Mansell was easily as good a racer as Senna; Senna just had the better car under him for almost all his career. Nigel was as fast, brave and talented as any F1 driver, and on top of that, he was a true and enthralling charger; a true great.

[@gorangoran6335]

No

[@LathropLdST]

Finally someone says it as it is.
True champion.

[@Milkywayboy]

I don’t think he has sennas talent but I am sure he is under appreciated

[@ivormott7309]

Fools will mock you but you are correct. Mansell is still the most exciting driver I have ever watched. He humiliated Senna on many occasions and was too genuine to manipulate a whole team to serve him. He deserved 86 title, dominated 87 and with reliability should have 91 too. More than Senna. He took all but 1 pole in 92 with a fast team mate and that is no easy feat.
In that era Senna is over-rated and strangely Prost and Mansell are under-rated. This is no coincidence.
Lets be clear; Senna blocked Warwick in 86 from joining Lotus claiming they couldn't support 2 competitive drivers. Dumfries was a rich journeyman and look at his performances driving Senna's spare parts bolted together by an old man and his dog. He finished, what was it, one race from the first ten? That car with the whole team around it was maybe best of the year but Senna didn't do what Nigel did. 87 the Lotus was a Senna team and the only car with active suspension but again Senna failed to make appropriate use of it. Honda loved Senna so abandon Williams to keep their engine with Senna for 88 and Prost comfortably outscored him despite obvious favouritism for Senna. Mansell took the slower Ferrari from 13th I think it was in Hungary 89 to pass Senna AND a backmarker to win. I have more if you wish but that's a sample for you. Senna was good indeed.... but not that good
People are vitriolic about Donnington 93 where Senna went from 5th to 1st in one lap but with a very driveable V8, ABS brakes and the best traction control on the grid. Schumacher went from 7th to 2nd in 4 corners in the dry at Spain 97. Even Senna didn't rate his Donnington drive that high.... fanatics will be fanatics but if you watched Mansell you know

[@ivormott7309]

56:00 "What makes an interesting driver and possibly a dangerous one is a driver that doesn't admit to anything at all and pushes everything" .... I wonder who he is referring to?
Maybe a very boring man out of the car but honest and magnanimous with it and by far the most exciting and incredible wheel to wheel racer I have ever watched. I never saw Gilles as I was too young but I still miss Mansell, no driver in my years has been as awesome as him. ❤

[@jasonrushton5991]

Thank you Rick, gr8 video. SUPA RED 5 COME'N THRUUUUU!!!!

[@booboo-racing8473]

Great guy

[@-Bearito]

Thx for the upload :)

[@benigashi9517]

He was and always we'll be best driver of all time....legend

[@sen5908]

I totally agree, one word brave

[@stuartbritton4811]

I wouldn't say the best. Certainly one of the bravest and most determined. He didn't have the finesse of Clark, Fangio, Prost or Stewart. He was a great sportsman and had a never-say-die determination. A British bulldog spirit, if ever there was one. He could have used his brain better and could have taken criticism more lightly to focus on the task at hand. Didn't have the sheer natural talent of Clark, Senna, though, or the wileyness of Lauda. Didn't have the dominant confidence- the sheer belief of Schumacher or Fangio. I don't like to overrate or underrate any driver. Mansell was brilliant. But it was Fangio and Clark who were the masters. Untouchable. Villeneuve, Cevert and Jochen Rindt could have been.

[@philgibbs6908]

Oh the memories

[@luizjoseazevedoneto7440]

Nigel is Pilot Show Man .

[@Alanoffer]

There comes a time in your life when things just don’t have the same meaning they did , you can’t take it with you ,

[@lumnikrasniqi7473]

Mansell the GREAT

[@thejudge-kv2jk]

I had this on VHS!

[@colinstewart1432]

The only hero called Nigel

[@nagarenius]

Where was the slow corner they talking abbout? x.D
22:46 slow corner comment
24:46 the actual speed in the corner ^^

[@MrMiD.Life.Crisis]

11:15 - i notice they didn't mention Warr's little comment about Nige' not winning.... And the hole in his xxxx! After he proved Warr wrong in the most resounding way, i wonder what Warr's reaction was?
Also, for such an incredibly exciting driver to watch, someone surrounded by constant drama - and i dont think im overstating that. Nige' seems like he has the most monotone, almost boring way of talking. It's the complete opposite to his driving style!

[@davidgriffithsbjjcoach7207]

Yes I remember Jasper Carrott saying that Nigel Mansell is potentially the most exciting man in the world and then he speaks...

[@mrkipling2201]

​@@davidgriffithsbjjcoach7207but then after that, he gets in a Formula One car and drives like the wind. He should be considered as one of the best racing drivers ever.

[@gar187er]

That moustache!!!!

[@faikgenc6150]

NIGEL!!!!

[@stuartbritton4811]

MCEG Virgin Watershed Pictures. What the hell does that mean?

[@abdelkadirriffi2775]

He look like astronote,

[@lmvma]

0 a 1, gana Perú

[@robpersson2962]

1-

[@manuelpedrosd]

Three times world champion Nelson Piquet defined Mansell as a fast idiot. I would add that he is fastidiously boring

[@davidgriffithsbjjcoach7207]

I'm sure he cares deeply what you think as does the world...

[@manuelpedrosd]

@@davidgriffithsbjjcoach7207 he doesn’t, he thinks his idiocy of loosing three champioships and inumerous races was being unlucky

[@ShadowDN11]

@@manuelpedrosd I thought it was very enjoyable when Alan Jones put Piquet in the wall at Montreal in 1980 and won the title

[@manuelpedrosd]

@@ShadowDN11 it was his second year in F1, amazing

[@paulmcnamara4774]

He was a exciting driver through one of the best ever to me to watch.