Was a privilege to watch Mansell drive in Indycar. Used to love the way he used to hustle the car, pure balls, bravery and speed. Superb wheel to wheel also.
Despite his brilliance the UK establishment always seemed to knock Nigel. He was the only driver in 1989 to overtake Senna. I regard him as the finest English driver of the modern era. Always incredible to watch
Prost didn’t want Mansell as a team mate in 1993 when he signed for Williams. Actually he didn’t want Mansell or Senna. He was afraid they were going to be quicker than him. Senna even called him a coward in a post race interview in 1992. Nigel was next to him and gave him a tap in the back and nodded agreeing with Senna. It turns out 1993 was a straightforward season for Prost and he won comfortably.
How did Mansell blew Prost away ? By scoring half of his points in 1990? Prost was a way better driver. Mansell was blown away by Elio DeAngelis and Keke Rosberg. Mansell is massively overrated...
@@srxt6758 Prost’s dirty politics at Ferrari literally set him up for success and Mansell up for failure. The car switch, the differing reliability, his fluent Italian - Prost was scared Mansell was quicker than him and he did everything to stop it.
@@srxt6758 I agree. Mansell was The Lion, but Prost was The Professor. 1 World Championship v 5 World Championships. Prost lost 2 additional World Championships by a combined one and a half points.
This was at a time when the CART Indy Cars used a stick-shift and not steering wheel shift paddles. I saw in another video where Nigel told of that, with his #5 car was fitted with a gear-shift knob he had used during his time in racing.
@@ryanyoder2694 Gee! That was an era of transition when it came to transmissions. I recall that the Penske team was the first to use sequential shift; where the other teams followed in the years afterward. What year that was? There could be some online sources about that, but, it is disillusioning the errors I've seen from purported 'facts' in web articles about motorsports from the 1960s and '70s I've read over the past decade. I lived in that era of a half-century ago, subscribed to Autoweek magazine and other automotive publications during that time; where the 'facts' reported in those periodicals have, at times, differed from web articles I've read over the past 10 years.
Theres a reason why F1 circuits are less challenging. The cars go quicker, much quicker 13 second per lap I believe lord knows how much it was back in the 90s... F1 cars need room to race as simple as that.
i simply love the indycars of the early-mid 90s so pure and 'simple' compared to nowadays open wheelers in the top series. the more time went on the less i enjoyed watching these races. i think i stopped watching indycars around 1999 and f1 around 2008
These were the best years of CART indy racing. To see Mansell race against the greats such as the Andrettis, Unsers, Fittipaldi, and others was such a joy. The only thing that could top it is if Senna got a chance to join after retiring from Formula 1.
Best Indycar era. As a kid with Papyrus Indycar and wheel/pedals, driving surfers paradise was heaven back then, but that dang fast double chicane…driving quali laps the entire race made that section difficult. Nigel had so many poles and track records as a rookie, plus quickly mastering ovals and indy 500, minus his unfortunate poor restart. Would have been incredible had he thrown down an indy500 win to add to double world championships
Peter Warr, who was once 2nd man at Lotus to Colin Chapman, did not like Nigel at all. Called him a complainer. However, when Nigel was on, he was very, very on, and it was exciting to see him fly by in a car. Had that chance when he came to Long Beach. However, put a few F1 style slashing moves on Al Unser Jr., who was not as familiar with the Cut Throat style of many ex-F1 drivers.
Little Al is an overrated driver. Put Mansell in the SAME car he had at Penske and I seriously believe Al would not have won the championship. The Lola was obsolete even before 1994, which is why Nigel and Mario were winless.
I would say so, although he wasn't always popular with the Williams team who tired of his constant complaining and whinging. Nelson Piquet knew how to get along with the mechanics, race engineers as well as Frank Williams and Patrick Head much better. He was also a better development driver and able to get the best out of a car. Mansell was also slow to adopt the Williams Active Suspension where as Piquet's confidence in the new suspension was absolute and he first used it in competition at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza where it proved much faster than the passive suspension FW11B, allowing him to run with less wing and record the highest speed of the 1987 season when he was speed trapped at 218.807 mph (352.135 km/h), some 5 mph faster than Mansell could manage in the conventional suspension car. Piquet would start from the pole and win the race from the Lotus of Ayrton Senna, with Mansell unable to keep pace finishing 3rd.
@@TheEwanMC Piquet without the crash walks the 87 title. People go balistic how the guy got lucky but if we look at the story the guy suffered a major accident then came back and won the championship against a driver who until Suzuka not only had an extra race on his record but was perfectly healthy aswell. We also cant forget that day in Imola Piquet was faster than Mansell in practice and was well contender for a race win. Piquet crashing made Mansell an easy winner.
Why doesn't Indycar do videos like this anymore. Something like a 24/7 type show, or an Inside Indycar or something. It would do wonders for tv viewership just like it did for boxing when they introduced HBO's 24/7. It even increased the NHL's ratings drastically when they did one for their Winter Classic. Even if its only on RUclips it would be great for promotion. Then again, we are talking about Indycar, they don't do shit but add more street races
MrStig691 Senna tested for Penske in 1992 and said, that the car felt great. So he did indeed bothered about IndyCar. Also, the cars weren´t much slower than F1 cars at the time and the races had more action.
Senna died before he could try out for INDYCAR, having contracts with f1 teams and sponsors etc. No doubt would Senna have made an impact in INDYCAR though. He was gifted in many driving styles.
islam is a POLITICAL ideaology, not a question of the colour of someone's skin -if you cannot grasp that fact, you are even more clueless than I thought
Was a privilege to watch Mansell drive in Indycar. Used to love the way he used to hustle the car, pure balls, bravery and speed. Superb wheel to wheel also.
Despite his brilliance the UK establishment always seemed to knock Nigel. He was the only driver in 1989 to overtake Senna. I regard him as the finest English driver of the modern era. Always incredible to watch
He'd race wheel to wheel with senna ,prost jumped out of way lol
Absolutely spot on 👍
@@AnthonyWebber-fe1eu jumped out of way then won the championship later :)
Prost didn’t want Mansell as a team mate in 1993 when he signed for Williams. Actually he didn’t want Mansell or Senna. He was afraid they were going to be quicker than him. Senna even called him a coward in a post race interview in 1992. Nigel was next to him and gave him a tap in the back and nodded agreeing with Senna. It turns out 1993 was a straightforward season for Prost and he won comfortably.
I was there in 93. Nigel owned this race and the cosworth engine sounded awesome.
In my opinion that was the best era for indycars, just looked and sounded amazing
That car is beautiful to the eye!
I love mansell`s commitment when qualifying one of the best
Spectacular Nigel. I missed qualifying but I was there for race day. Nigel was spectacular as ever ❤
Nigel "the lion" Mansell!
Amazing lap!
So much heart and soul going on in Nigels laps. I love someone who gives it his all in motor racing and he did just that!
some though fail to mention, he was hugely talented
he was ALWAYS like that lol
HUGE balls and huge skill to go with it!
him and senna just blew people away (including prost and piquet!!)
How did Mansell blew Prost away ? By scoring half of his points in 1990? Prost was a way better driver. Mansell was blown away by Elio DeAngelis and Keke Rosberg. Mansell is massively overrated...
@@srxt6758
Prost’s dirty politics at Ferrari literally set him up for success and Mansell up for failure. The car switch, the differing reliability, his fluent Italian - Prost was scared Mansell was quicker than him and he did everything to stop it.
@@srxt6758 I agree. Mansell was The Lion, but Prost was The Professor. 1 World Championship v 5 World Championships. Prost lost 2 additional World Championships by a combined one and a half points.
@@DRMET He won 4...that's four. Seems you don't follow in the professor's footsteps.
@@Mk1Male Thanks for the correction. My mistake.
wow indy cars looked great back then!
So smooth and full on lap at the same time! Pure art by the lionheart!!!!!
This was at a time when the CART Indy Cars used a stick-shift and not steering wheel shift paddles. I saw in another video where Nigel told of that, with his #5 car was fitted with a gear-shift knob he had used during his time in racing.
Weren’t they sequential stick shift, or was that 94 when that was introduced?
@@ryanyoder2694 Gee! That was an era of transition when it came to transmissions.
I recall that the Penske team was the first to use sequential shift; where the other teams followed in the years afterward. What year that was?
There could be some online sources about that, but, it is disillusioning the errors I've seen from purported 'facts' in web articles about motorsports from the 1960s and '70s I've read over the past decade.
I lived in that era of a half-century ago, subscribed to Autoweek magazine and other automotive publications during that time; where the 'facts' reported in those periodicals have, at times, differed from web articles I've read over the past 10 years.
My hero!
Mansell really kicked those yanks' arses that year!
Joe Blo Nobody outside the borders of the United States cares about NASCAR.
Nigel would woop all there asses
White Tony I don't get it..
Just like how Phil hill kicked all you euros asses back in 61
this track looks harder than 75% of formula one circuits
Nah. Have you seen Monaco?
@@vir123456 he said 75% of tracks.
Theres a reason why F1 circuits are less challenging. The cars go quicker, much quicker 13 second per lap I believe lord knows how much it was back in the 90s... F1 cars need room to race as simple as that.
i simply love the indycars of the early-mid 90s
so pure and 'simple' compared to nowadays open wheelers in the top series.
the more time went on the less i enjoyed watching these races.
i think i stopped watching indycars around 1999 and f1 around 2008
Brilliant!👏🏎😊
@Morphlett the old detroit circuit was probably harder. it all depends on the driver reallly. love to see F1 there!!
These were the best years of CART indy racing. To see Mansell race against the greats such as the Andrettis, Unsers, Fittipaldi, and others was such a joy. The only thing that could top it is if Senna got a chance to join after retiring from Formula 1.
I like his driving style, here at least it is full commitment
awesome find! love it !
Best Indycar era. As a kid with Papyrus Indycar and wheel/pedals, driving surfers paradise was heaven back then, but that dang fast double chicane…driving quali laps the entire race made that section difficult. Nigel had so many poles and track records as a rookie, plus quickly mastering ovals and indy 500, minus his unfortunate poor restart. Would have been incredible had he thrown down an indy500 win to add to double world championships
Very smooth.
Peter Warr, who was once 2nd man at Lotus to Colin Chapman, did not like Nigel at all. Called him a complainer. However, when Nigel was on, he was very, very on, and it was exciting to see him fly by in a car. Had that chance when he came to Long Beach. However, put a few F1 style slashing moves on Al Unser Jr., who was not as familiar with the Cut Throat style of many ex-F1 drivers.
Little Al is an overrated driver. Put Mansell in the SAME car he had at Penske and I seriously believe Al would not have won the championship. The Lola was obsolete even before 1994, which is why Nigel and Mario were winless.
1:25 so beautiful
Luv Mansell
LOL 1:38.555 ... Nigel does love that number doesn't he?
Oh my god the walls!
watching this so i can better figure out how to survive the track in the superb old dos game 'Indycar Racing 2' from Papyrus
chicane then a wall 😀
Awesome era of Indycars
Better racer and driver than Damon hill
I would say so, although he wasn't always popular with the Williams team who tired of his constant complaining and whinging.
Nelson Piquet knew how to get along with the mechanics, race engineers as well as Frank Williams and Patrick Head much better.
He was also a better development driver and able to get the best out of a car.
Mansell was also slow to adopt the Williams Active Suspension where as Piquet's confidence in the new suspension was absolute and he first used it in competition at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza where it proved much faster than the passive suspension FW11B, allowing him to run with less wing and record the highest speed of the 1987 season when he was speed trapped at 218.807 mph (352.135 km/h), some 5 mph faster than Mansell could manage in the conventional suspension car. Piquet would start from the pole and win the race from the Lotus of Ayrton Senna, with Mansell unable to keep pace finishing 3rd.
@@TheEwanMC Piquet without the crash walks the 87 title. People go balistic how the guy got lucky but if we look at the story the guy suffered a major accident then came back and won the championship against a driver who until Suzuka not only had an extra race on his record but was perfectly healthy aswell. We also cant forget that day in Imola Piquet was faster than Mansell in practice and was well contender for a race win. Piquet crashing made Mansell an easy winner.
Why doesn't Indycar do videos like this anymore. Something like a 24/7 type show, or an Inside Indycar or something. It would do wonders for tv viewership just like it did for boxing when they introduced HBO's 24/7. It even increased the NHL's ratings drastically when they did one for their Winter Classic. Even if its only on RUclips it would be great for promotion. Then again, we are talking about Indycar, they don't do shit but add more street races
Tremendo
Very good lap.
Great race.
Yeah... Right!!!
Goodbye now.
Lola
god, how the hate pours off you
-tell me, when did senna win INDYCAR?
-much higher speeds than F1
MrStig691 Senna tested for Penske in 1992 and said, that the car felt great. So he did indeed bothered about IndyCar. Also, the cars weren´t much slower than F1 cars at the time and the races had more action.
Senna died before he could try out for INDYCAR, having contracts with f1 teams and sponsors etc. No doubt would Senna have made an impact in INDYCAR though. He was gifted in many driving styles.
I am not a racist!
yer team up with your sidekick Alexander
you must learn to distinguish between racism and political religion
1 mistake and you are done...
islam is a POLITICAL ideaology, not a question of the colour of someone's skin
-if you cannot grasp that fact, you are even more clueless than I
thought
darkmossie633 Actually Islam is a religion.
What a rookie lol ,took title aswell
Absolutely awesome 😊
Mansell is a living legend, i miss newman haas team.