Mansell: My Autobiography

My Autobiography

Nigel Mansell

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Thu, 21 Nov 2024

Boken gir et veldig godt innblikk i livet til Nigel Mansell og de utfordringer han hadde. Han virker knallhard, og en er en som aldri gir opp. Boken gir også et innblikk i en Formel 1 verden som var ekstremt ulik den vi har i dag. Nigel måtte for eksempel betale for sine egne reier og opphold til hvert løp, og som regel så hadde han ikke rå til å ta med sin kone engang. De sliter ikke med slikt i 2025….

We went around the whole place, not just the workshops where they prepare the engines, but every office and every drawing office in the building. We shook hands with every single person from the managing director down to the secretaries and the cleaners and signed posters for each of them.

You must push everybody involved with the team in every area and tell them that, although they are doing a good job, they can do better. A large part of it is demanding the best, better than people think they can achieve. From suppliers of components through to secretaries in the factory, everyone must be made to feel they can improve and to feel a part of the success when it comes.

When I got out of the car at Monaco and looked at the white smears on the walls of the tyres where the manufacturer’s logo had been wiped off, it even impressed me.

Anyone can drive at nine-tenths all day, but unless you understand what the car will do at ten-tenths and even occasionally eleven-tenths, then you are not being true to yourself, your car or your team.

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Mon, 2 Oct 1995