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I've always been reasonably fatalistic.
Nigel Mansell / Race Car Driver
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The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge.
Nigel Mansell / Race Car Driver
Sports
Athlete
Challenges
Masters
Awesome
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I've been in motorsport my whole life since I was eight years of age.
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Athlete
Eight
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Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.
Nigel Mansell / Race Car Driver
Athlete
Formula 1
Too Much
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Every GP Masters race will stand out because we will be available for fans, media and sponsors.
Nigel Mansell / Race Car Driver
Sports
Athlete
Available
Gps
Masters
Sponsors
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Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.
Nigel Mansell / Race Car Driver
Home
Sports
Athlete
Grand Prix
Racing
Surreal
Grand
Mighty
Thoroughbred
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When I was teammates with Piquet and Prost, they were prolific in what they would get up to undermine you.
Nigel Mansell / Race Car Driver
Teammates
Prolific
Undermine
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Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me.
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Athlete
Beaten
Winning
Power Me Will
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Ayrton was our toughest rival. He would leave no stone unturned to get the utmost out of his car and his team.
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Rival
Stone
Toughest
Unturned
Utmost
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The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.
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Anger
Athlete
Commitment
Grand Prix
Last Time
Preparation
Drove
Grand
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I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.
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Adrenaline
Athlete
Giving
Jumping
Racing
Plane
Rush
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Motor racing is 99 per cent downs and one per cent ups. It's a huge challenge, as there are so many things that can go wrong.
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Motor
Racing
Cent
Downs
Ups
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The hunger and desire to go racing, however, never leaves your blood but the right opportunity has never really come along - until now that is.
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Motivational
Opportunity
Blood
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I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.
Nigel Mansell / Race Car Driver
Work
Sports
Bed
Challenges
Hard
Mistake
Perfect
Real
Life Work Believe
Anyone
Mistakes
Make
Full
Problems
Roses
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It seems to me a lot of drivers have lost their personalities or are not able to express themselves. However, it's a very commercial market, and manufacturers have a far bigger say than ever before.
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Drivers
Manufacturers
Personalities
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My grandfather always told me that it is no good lying on a hospital bed saying, 'I had the right of way', ... That's one of the reasons I was so pleased that the boys could do the IAM test as well.
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Boys
Grandfather
Lying
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Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you're not careful with your driving style.
Nigel Mansell / Race Car Driver
Car
Athlete
Careful
Complicated
Damage
Driving
Mean
Firstly
For Example
Spin
Tires
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I was a driver and a racer. The difference between drivers, who can be great World Champions, and racers, who are also World Champions, is that racers don't wait for things to happen: they make things happen.
Nigel Mansell / Race Car Driver
Things Happen
Champions
Difference
Driver
Wait
Happen
Racer
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As you get older, you do reflect more. They were great times, but the biggest thing we all had to deal with a lot more disappointment from an engineering point of view, there was not the reliability that there is now.
Nigel Mansell / Race Car Driver
Disappointment
Engineering
Point Of View
Reliability
Biggest Thing
Reflect
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We didn't have any simulators. We had to do it on the track all the time. Now they've got simulators for everything. And, if they have an accident or go off, then you just press a button, re-set, and away you go again.
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Accident
Button
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The first race is really just something that we will all need to get through. Until people see the cars in action I don't think they will understand how quick they will be, which means they are going to be tiring to drive.
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Sports
Athlete
Mean
Just Something
Quick
Tiring
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I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit.
Nigel Mansell / Race Car Driver
Athlete
Drivers
Handful
Thinking
World
Best Myself World
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The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators.
Nigel Mansell / Race Car Driver
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Sports
Athlete
Drivers
Format
Practice
Qualifying
Session
Spectators
Weekend
Time Car Great
Time Great Enough
Car Time Great
Laps
Proper
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Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with.
Nigel Mansell / Race Car Driver
Fitness
Sports
Athlete
Drivers
Racing
Thinking
Start Me People
Decade
Factor
Major
Properly
Recently
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In our day, the driver probably had more input into the car. We didn't have power steering or fully automated gearboxes. We didn't have all the technical whizzes that are on the car now, so we actually controlled the car far more than the drivers today.
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Input
Steering
Automated
Driver
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Ayrton and I shared a lot of incredible races, where he was first and I was second and vice-versa. I think it's fair to say I am the only racer in Grand Prix history who wasn't intimidated by him, and I think that was great for the fans - it did make us have a few close calls, though!
Nigel Mansell / Race Car Driver
Grand Prix
Intimidated
Calls
Grand
Racer
Races
Shared
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