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Nigel Mansell
World Champion driver 1992. Indycar Champion 1993. Winner of 31 Grands Prix. Team Lotus driver from 1980 until 1984. Partner to Elio de Angelis for four seasons he left the team when Ayrton Senna was signed for the 1985 season. For the first half of the 1983 season, the team built a Turbo car for Elio de Angelis and Nigel Mansell drove a Cosworth-engined car (the Lotus 92) to start the year This revolutionary design being the world's first fully electronic active-suspension car. Although outclassed by the Turbo cars Mansell had reason to be grateful for his early exerience of this technolgy, for in a Williams active-suspension car he would win his World Championship in 1992. The helmet was worn by Mansell during the 1982 (Lotus 91) and the early part of the 1983 seasons, when driving the Lotus 92-Ford. Applied sticker of personal sponsors Pace Petroleum, subsequently dropped when Renault engines brought Elf sponsorship.
World Champion driver 1992. Indycar Champion 1993. Winner of 31 Grands Prix. Team Lotus driver from 1980 until 1984. Partner to Elio de Angelis for four seasons he left the team when Ayrton Senna was signed for the 1985 season. For the first half of the 1983 season, the team built a Turbo car for Elio de Angelis and Nigel Mansell drove a Cosworth-engined car (the Lotus 92) to start the year This revolutionary design being the world's first fully electronic active-suspension car. Although outclassed by the Turbo cars Mansell had reason to be grateful for his early exerience of this technolgy, for in a Williams active-suspension car he would win his World Championship in 1992. The helmet was worn by Mansell during the 1982 (Lotus 91) and the early part of the 1983 seasons, when driving the Lotus 92-Ford. Applied sticker of personal sponsors Pace Petroleum, subsequently dropped when Renault engines brought Elf sponsorship.