Loved it. The one shot of them in the drivers briefing and it pans across all the drivers in baseball caps looking like proper athelets and gets to Mansell.
Sitting back, chilling with his awesome massive moustache and flat cap on. Made me laugh :)
Truly the pimpest pimp to race pimpmobiles in F1 ever.
Mansell was great back in the days (I can only judge on my dad's taped races, I was born only 1 year before his title) !!. And still is today, although he shaved the moustache... Loved it when he dissed Schumacher during the Murray Walker documentary !!
shareYeah I have just seen the way he took a pop at Schumi in the Murray Walker documentary. He might have had a point in that the Ferrari had amazing reliability.
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shareThat Schumacher was gifted a few championships because his car was so reliable. Which is true - Ferrari holds the record for most consecutive races without a technical/mechanical failure... I think Ferrari had 2 consecutive seasons with no DNF's due to technical/mechanical failures on either cars.
shareAs good as the movie was I think the shot of Mansell wearing the tweed cap was the highlight for me
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I find it sad that the documentary put so much weight on one particular rivalry (important to the story as that was) and didn't show anything at all with regards to his relationships with other drivers.
He had a fantastic rivalry with Mansell, but one born out of mutual respect. The moment Senna runs out of fuel at Silverstone handing victory to Mansell, and Mansell (on his victory parade) stopping his car to pick up Senna and driving him back to the pits atop the car is for myself THE defining moment in F1 of that time, the moment that stuck with me in my youth.
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That to me, was probably one of the most memorable moments in F1 history, especially given the vastly underrated rivalry between the two. Since the mid 80's, these two had some pretty bad collisions, one that resulted in Mansell grabbing Senna's throat in the pits, during his years with Lotus. Prost loved to talk about almost coming to blows with Ayrton, but it was Mansell who actually carried out the deed. All that "blad blood" as Murray Walker called it, went out the window when Nigel gave Senna a lift, (although I heard Frank Williams was a bit annoyed that Nigel let a rival peek at the cockpit of the FW14B?). Although Mansell doesn't consider Senna as the greatest of all time, he certainly gave him top spot for being the most "ferocious" driver to protect his lead, which he did numerous times against Mansell, particularly that heart breaker in Monaco '92. One of the best duals the sport has ever seen. Just pure racing by two legendary pilots. It simply doesn't get better than that.....okay maybe in Spain '91.
shareGood job Nigel on being the Steward Director for the 2011 British GP !! And well done Nigel on awarding Schumacher a well deserved penalty for his horrible driving and bumping into people !!
shareI loved that bit too. He just didn't look like a serious racing driver, yet was one of the most exciting drivers of the era and one of Britain's best ever.
As nomadski said, it's a shame that the Senna-Mansell rivalry wasn't explored more in the film. I think that the Monaco GP in 1992 was one of the defining moments of the rivalry, and one of Senna's best defensive drives in much inferior car to Mansell's. Would've been interesting to hear 'Our Nige's' opinion on racing with Senna.
I'd feel tragic like I was Marlon Brando
Absolutely Sonic, it showed two truly great drivers flat out racing on a track (imo) totally unsuitable for exciting racing yet giving viewers some of the greatest bang for buck F1 entertainment ever.
I did like the small inclusion of Mansell and Senna racing down the start / finish straight literally cm's apart from each other's wheels with no contact made by either.
Truly a generation away from modern day F1.
Dammit this makes me wish it was late 80's early 90's again...
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Yeah, missing out his rivalry with Mansell was a mistake. Another iconic moment was Spain 1991, with Senna and Mansell going head-to-head down the main straight.
I also think missing out Piquet's rivalry was a mistake as well. Before Senna came along, he was Brazil's national F1 hero. Plus their battle at Hungary in 1986.
Those two relationships, might have painted a broader picture of Senna.
Not much with shuy or even his other team mates either.
At the end of the day to broaden its appeal and dramatic impact they needed a classic simple good vs bad guy narrative, and that role went to Prost. It was more like a movie than an accurate documentary.
Yeah you are right, they sort of mentioned Schumi as Senna's new nemesis, after Prost retired. They really just glossed over their relationship though. No mention of their clashes (France 1992). Just mention of 'traction control' in the Benetton in 1994.
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As would have Senna's close friendship with Gerhard Berger.
Crazy on a ship of fools...
Mansell is on a roll today at SPA as the main driver stewards - 2 drive-throughs given in 8 laps !! Good man Nigel !!
shareNigel was a great character and an awesome driver. He would grab the car by the scruff of the neck and really shake it up. There were many other great drivers left out of the mix in the documentary too.
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Legend.
A friend of mine was lucky enough to meet him once and said he was a "proper gent".
He was always so calm and chilled outside the car, but once he was in the car he was absolutely awesome to watch.
I reckon probaly the best british driver we have had.
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