Hello there and welcome back to the next instalment of GPBlog’s top 50 F1 drivers of all time. We’re counting down one day at a time to the season opening race in Australia and we’re now just 16 days away. In at 17 yesterday was the great Graham Hill and today we’ve got another British champion, Nigel Mansell. Nigel Mansell is seen as one of the grittiest and most determined F1 drivers of all time, not giving up until he eventually won the ultimate prize. Following a junior career that nearly saw him killed on more than one occasion, Mansell signed with Lotus as test driver in 1980 and made two appearances on the grid, retiring from both. In 1981 the drive was made...
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