RE: Mansell downplays his chances

[jellison]

MANSELL IS THE MAN - alway has been - total commitment.

Emmo was bloody Awesome as well - better than I expected - the rest must raise they game.

Hopefully Nige can use this and more fitness training to be ready for the BIG threat - Alain.....

[anonymous-user]

jellison said:

MANSELL IS THE MAN - alway has been - total commitment. Emmo was bloody Awesome as well - better than I expected - the rest must raise they game. Hopefully Nige can use this and more fitness training to be ready for the BIG threat - Alain.....

to be fair emmo was world champion in 72 and thus Mansell has a fair few years "youth" on him!. Plus Emmo had really cool facial hair in the 70s, far better than Mansells 'tache in the 80's and as far as I am concerned, thats where its at!!!

[rallysanf]

pablo said:

jellison said: MANSELL IS THE MAN - alway has been - total commitment. Emmo was bloody Awesome as well - better than I expected - the rest must raise they game. Hopefully Nige can use this and more fitness training to be ready for the BIG threat - Alain..... to be fair emmo was world champion in 72 and thus Mansell has a fair few years "youth" on him!. Plus Emmo had really cool facial hair in the 70s, far better than Mansells 'tache in the 80's and as far as I am concerned, thats where its at!!!

Interesting point that, Mansell 52, Fittipaldi 58...so only 6 years difference, but 20 years between the respective championships. By my reckoning Fittipaldi must have been 25 when he won his first championship compared to Nige being 38/39 as it was around his birthday so not sure exactly what age he was. The two did also race together in Indy Cars, when Nige won there to

[rubystone]

Fittipaldi did hold the record for the youngest F1 World Champ until Alonso took it away from him this year. Don't forget that Fittipaldi stayed in F1 driving for his brother (?) Wilson's Copersucar team in the mid '70s - I can't recall exactly when he gave up - much upon the lines of Villeneuve at BAR he won sod all, but it may have been as late as 1975. After that, he was in constant employment as a topline driver in CART etc IIRC, before retiring after a massive 100g shunt in 1996...so actually his professional racing career ended pretty much when Mansell's did.

For me, he was the star of the GPM race, alongside Nige of course, but Warwick, De Cesaris and Stuck were all pretty great too.

[jellison]

Emmo - race Mansell in his 2 years in CART (these are what all GP drivers should be using - bin the works team - who care if Renualt has a better chassi or engien than Macer - we want Racing, Racing, Racing) - think for Ganassi or more likley Penske atthe time. Top sidee's! And the GP master are CART cars mius the turbo's with the block bored and stocked and iron brakes, and the easy shift gear box stuff - SPOT ON.

[timbob]

I remember when Mansell went over to America to race in the IndyCar series in '93. Channel 4 started showing the races late at night... Was a bit strange hearing Murray talk about Mansell and Fittipaldi again after 12 years!