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Wednesday 20 November 2013

Jersey - The Mansell Collection

On 7 June 2013 I showed some photographs of the Ferrari 640 in the Mansell Collection in Jersey. Here are some of the other photographs I took that day. There are several cabinets containing trophies, racing overalls and other items of memorabilia:
The racing overalls here are from his time at Williams and the police helmets you can see in the centre of the cabinet are from his service as a special constable when he lived in the Isle of Man.
These are his Ferrari racing overalls. When you go to see the collection you get an audio commentary narrated by Nigel telling you about most of the trophies and items in these cabinets, but unfortunately there isn't a brochure available telling you about them so I'm not sure now what most of these trophies are. By enlarging the photo, however, I can see that the inscription on the middle trophy at the bottom of this cabinet reads:
Champion
Miller Genuine Draft 200
June 6, 1993
The Milwaukee Mile

A host of other trophies and the racing overalls from his time in the American CART series. At the bottom of the middle part of this cabinet are some golfing trophies and he's on record as saying that one of his desires was to compete in the British Open Golf Championship (see this Nigel Mansell Wikipedia article)
The Brazilian flag behind the trophy at the top left seems to indicate that it's from the Brazilian Grand Prix which he won in 1989 and 1992.
A display cabinet containing a variety of his crash helmets
On the left is the OBE which he was awarded in 1992, and on the right the CBE awarded in 2012. Next to the OBE is the Queen's Golden Jubilee medal and next to that the Special Constabulary Long Service medal. I don't remember what Nigel had to say about the A$1,000,000 Adelaide Casino chip.
Nigel's three BBC Sportsview Personality of the Year awards; First place in 1986 (middle), first place again in 1992 (right) and third place in 1993 (left).
This is the Williams FW14B with which he won the World Drivers' Championship in 1992
In 2005 and 2006 Nigel competed in the GP Masters one make series in this car based on the 2000 Reynard Champ Car. Only one race was held in 2005, in South Africa, which he won, and in 2006 the series folded after two races, in Qatar which he also won, and at Silverstone where he retired.
This is the Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S with which Nigel competed in the 2010 Le Mans 24 Hour race with his sons Leo and Greg as co-drivers. Unfortunately the car crashed out after a tyre punctured on only the fifth lap with Nigel at the wheel.

The Newman/Haas car with which he won the CART Indycar World Series in the USA in 1993 isn't in the collection, but here's a photograph of the Lola T93 which I took at the Oulton Park Gold Cup meeting in August 2008.


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