F1-photo.com / Cahier Archive It had started to look like it might never happen, but on this day in 1992 Nigel Mansell finally achieved his dream and secured the Formula 1 world championship! He'd come close in the past: in 1986 he was runner-up by just two points to McLaren's Alain Prost, and the following year he missed out to his own Williams team mate Nelson Piquet. He was runner-up again in 1991, this time to Ayrton Senna, and it seemed like time was fast running out for Mansell. But 1992 was a totally different story. He won the first five races of the season back-to-back, and then three more races in France, Britain and Germany. It meant he went into that year's Hungarian Grand...
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