Comments on: F1 links: Mansell vs Hamilton

By: Gezzy

Gezzy — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:06:56 +0000

How many potential drivers even had a chance,hence the reason Hamilton was “out on his own” also Hamiltons father made the approach to McLaren to give him a chance.

By: Paul Sainsbury

Paul Sainsbury — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:58:14 +0000

Yeah, totally wrong there. How do you explain the fact that he was in a league of his own from well before the MaClaren involvement. Mmm, and maybe that is why they bought him up, eh?

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:43:26 +0000

What are his sons doing, last time I read they where testing Le Mans cars together.

By: pSynrg

pSynrg — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:14:50 +0000

Erm, classic Mansell?

By: The Limit

The Limit — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:28:34 +0000

One reflects on Mario Andretti’s comments on Nigel Mansell when reading these comments, non of it polite enough to print. Is this another case of Mansell showing off that legendary ‘chip on the shoulder’ that he has carried around for years?
He always seemed to be battling adversity did Nigel.
No rich team owners to help him at the beginning of his career, heavily in debt, yet making it anyhow. At the sametime he always got himself hurt in some strange
circumstances. Who could forget Nigel hobbling away from his Williams after crashing in Australia, or celebrating victory before braking down on the last lap, or cutting his hands to pieces whilst raising the
winners trophy in Argentina? All classic episodes, all filled with paranoia that others were out to get him!
His rough relationships with Piquet Snr and Prost attest to this theory perfectly, including allegations that Prost stole his pole winning car for a race whilst both were at Ferrari twenty years ago.
In stark contrast, Lewis Hamilton did have Ron Dennis and McLaren as backers from an early age, but that only
shows great foresight and intelligience from Lewis and his family. They knew they couldn’t make it alone, they needed Dennis and his team’s help.
In doing so, through great determination and a large slice of luck, Hamilton’s debut season was run in one
of the fastest and most reliable cars McLaren have
produced in the last ten years.
In the process, Hamilton has won a title and second place in just two seasons. At the same time, he has gone toe to toe with both Raikkonen and Alonso and has not looked too shabby. He does it with great style, at times almost ease, and has given the sport something
it has been lacking. Personality!
The real reason Hamilton is hated by so many is that he is not just fast and successful, but successful so early. To the exception of Jacques Villeneuve, Hamilton has to be one of the few rookies to win a title so early in their career.
He has not endured years of nearly winning titles as Mansell did, or Raikkonen for that matter, he has just blindsided everybody very quickly.
Nobody discounts that Mansell was and still is a great champion. He is one of the few to be an F1 and IRL champion at the sametime, and has made millions from his profession. He came along way from the gutters of
Birmingham, England, to one of the best racing drivers in modern open wheel history. He was always outspoken, opinionated, and arrogant, which he used to great effect to annoy his rivals. This time though, he has
shown this side of his nature to a negative affect.
This time, he is dead wrong!

By: Gezzy

Gezzy — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:19:53 +0000

Being bankroled by McLaren from schooldays could make many Lewis’s methinks

Gezzy

By: sumedh

sumedh — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:30:18 +0000

This comment is more sillier than Massa’s testing championship comment.

By: Mussolini's Pet Cat

Mussolini's Pet Cat — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:46:50 +0000

oh Nige, you silly old sausage. Do you remember what you said about the Williams back then??? Something about a monkey could drive it and win?? We all now it’s impossible to compare drivers from different eras, so dont bother!

By: Ant

Ant — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:25:31 +0000

Everyone is bashing Mansell for having an easy Championship in 92, but everyone seems to forget that he did narrowly miss out on two other Championships that were very hard fought.

Whilst I don’t agree with his recent comments about Lewis either, give the guy a break – he was a good driver in his time and achieved a lot.

By: hamilton wc 09

hamilton wc 09 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:51:30 +0000

typical mansell, hell of a driver but god hes up his own ****, he won the world tittle with probably the best car ever made in f1, how good was he in 1990 for ferrari?? thrashed by prost. he just always seems to want to make his 1 world tittle sound better than anybody elses even though it was the easisiet tittle ever won when you look at the standard of the competition in 92 and the fact that mansell was de facto number 1 driver in the team,