Nigel Mansells race winning, 1992, Williams FW14B Formula One Car, on display at the Silverstone Classic Media Day
Nigel Ernest James Mansell, CBE ( 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. The Williams FW14 was a Formula One car designed by Adrian Newey, used by the Williams team during the 1991 and 1992 Formula One seasons. The car was born out of necessity, as the 1989 and 1990 seasons had proven competitive for Williams, but they had underachieved in their own and Renault's eyes. Newey started work on the new car soon after joining the team from March in mid-1990. He had designed a series of aerodynamically efficient and very effective cars for March on a limited budget, so with Williams's greater resources and money he was able to fully develop his ideas. The design showed enough promise to tempt Nigel Mansell to shelve his plans to retire from the sport and rejoin Williams from Ferrari. Powered by a litre V10 Renault engine, the car was the most technically sophisticated on the grid. By 1992 the FW14B featured semi-automatic transmission, active suspension, traction control and for a brief period anti-lock brakes. Add to that the superb aerodynamics by Newey that was far ahead of the McLaren MP4/7A, Ferrari F92A or Lotus 107, and it made for a potent mix, although at the beginnThe car was clearly the most technically advanced on the grid, but teething troubles during the season stymied the team's early progress. Nigel Mansell and Riccardo Patrese recorded 7 victories between them, but the Drivers' Championship was wrapped up by Ayrton Senna in the McLaren MP4/6, who had better relyavbility the unbelievers said the car was too technical for its own
Size: 5245px × 3546px
Location: Silverstone Circuit,
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: -quarter, 1992, 3493cc, adrian, british, car, carbon, champion, championship, chief, circuit, classic, cockpit, competition, composite, day, designer, driver, engine, engineering, f1, fibre, formula, front, fw14b, head, historic, honeycomb, international, longitudinal, mansell, media, mid-engine, motosport, newey, nigel, paddock, patrick, race, raceing, racing, rear, renault, rs3c, silverstone, team, track, tyres, v10, view, wheels, williams, wing, winning, world
