He entered 42 races the following year and won 33 to become the 1977 British Formula Ford champion, despite suffering a broken neck in a qualifying session at Brands Hatch. In 1976, Mansell won six of the nine races he took part in, including his debut event at Mallory Park. After considerable success in kart racing, he moved to the Formula Ford series to the disapproval of his father. Mansell had a fairly slow start to his racing career, using his own money to help work his way up the ranks. Nigel Ernest James Mansell was born on 8 August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, where his parents, Eric and Joyce Mansell, ran a tea shop. He has since competed in additional sports car races with his sons Leo and Greg, including the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans, and was inducted to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2005. He later signed a one-off race deal for the Scuderia Ecosse GT race team to drive their number 63 Ferrari F430 GT2 car at Silverstone on. Mansell raced in the Grand Prix Masters series in 2005, and won the championship title. He held the record for the most poles set in a single season, which was broken in 2011 by Sebastian Vettel. Mansell is the second most successful British Formula One driver of all time in terms of race wins with 31 victories, (behind Lewis Hamilton with 103 wins), and is eighth overall on the Formula One race winners list, behind Hamilton, Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Max Verstappen and Fernando Alonso.

His career in Formula One spanned 15 seasons, with his final two full seasons of top-level racing being spent in the CART series. 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.

Nigel Ernest James Mansell, CBE ( / ˈ m æ n s əl/ born 8 August 1953) is a British retired racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship ( 1992) and the CART Indy Car World Series ( 1993). Royal Automobile Club Gold Medal, ESPY for Best Driver, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America Inductee in 2006.

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