F1 1994 Nigel Mansell Qualifying Lap And Pole Position 

Mansell should of won as many championships as Senna. He just had more bad luck. He was just as quick, if not, even quicker than Senna.

@@posniknelb6114 Ayrton had more than double the pole number than Mansell. No way was Mansell quicker than Senna (to be fair no one was). All other things considered one can´t really compare (to many variables at stake), but concerning speed it was not even close. NO driver back then was as quick as Senna - in pure speed and natural talent - when driving those cars. And by a margin. His pole percentage back then (on "modern era cars") does not lie.

The pole was impressive but to be fair his race pace was not. He won but not because of a strong performance.

A full season in that car and he would have won again. Senna couldn't get to grips with it

Senna and Mansell is a dream combo which would destroy any team including Bennetton

Yes.

It would've been a tough battle vs Schumacher.

Prost was notorious for setting up his car for race conditions rather than qualifying. So its pretty bad that Mansell only managed 8-8 against Prost. Thats why Prost is often outqualified by Senna but he would have much better race pace.

Phantom5611 Senna dominated prost in qualifying because Prost knew it was a waste of energy trying to beat him in qualifying, he employed Lauda’s tactics that were used against himself in 84

@Firstname Lastname Ha ha, you seem to have a problem there with Mansell I see! Let it go, he may have had a more successful life than you, but he is long retired now...

@Firstname Lastname Please read what I said... You said that Mansell was "overrated". I said, looking at his achievements, that he wasn't. I never said he was as good as Prost or Senna - though he certainly could be every bit as fast. Just not the complete package that they were

Mansell should have won his first title in 1986, when Williams were by a mile superior to McLaren's. Instead of what he battled with his teammate. As a result Prost won, while Mansell & Piquet lost. Same in 1987, he had the car to win, but Piquet was still there. Anyway like him or not he was a very good driver, but lacked the ability or will to set up properly a car, you can't just hop in and drive. This is the key difference between title count, at some point you have to make one with the car. Should have retired in style after this race won, but messed it up totally.

I'm a huge Prost fan as well but Mansell had a lot of bad luck. Amazing that he won in 94. He would have been world champion in 93 had Williams not been so stupid. The car was built for Mansell and he was racing better and better

41 isn't old 🤣

+X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X Indeed, amazing reaction and intelligence to react and spin the car to avoid collision. His save at Imola 1990 is the best of all time imo

+X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X Was that Schumacher in the Benetton? Can't clearly see it^^

+dinterful I belive it is, judging by the white helmet with a stripe of some sort (should be black-red-gold) on the side. Furthermore, Schumacher crashed at this corner in practice and in the race, if I remember Adelaide correctly ;)

+X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X Yes, wasn't his best weekend^^

also check spa 1993 with senna in eu rouge or how is spelt :)mansel and senna was the last great f1 champs and i feel lucky i was there to see them fight live many times !!!

Vettel is modern day Mansell

What???

@@TheKestevon why??

Nigel went to Lotus as a test driver in 1980. He was very much an established F1 driver by the time he went to Willaims to partner Nelson Piquet for 1985.

Hill si è giocato il titolo con la Williams. Forse non era il pacchetto completo che fù la Benetton di quel periodo, ma la FW16 era comunque un'ottima vettura e minimo la seconda miglior auto in pista.

@@livingbeing1113 concordo perfettamente con te. Hill è stato irruento, la miglior vettura quell'anno era la Benetton, ma per come si era messa quella gara, se avesse atteso un istante, avrebbe avuto il mondiale in tasca. Schumacher, viceversa è stato di una scorrettezza assoluta e la Fia ha dormito.-

and lost the championship.

@@chriswebb1148 Schumacher always driven 'how he did'. Look at 1995, when the Williams was better in the first half of the season and Michael still blew them away.

Then Mansell would've died instead

@@chriswebb1148 they found traces of launch control software. Try to be correct in your info.

Yes he was fast but old :) And not as talented as Senna or new generation Schumacher. Besides if Senna couldn't work out in first races how to make the FW16 set ups better, and we was a master at that, i can hardly see Mansell doing better. Just see what happened in 95, off to Hakkinen by 3sec in McLaren. When he managed to get in ;)

@@heexxi i am sorry heexxi but you can’t argue the 95 season for Mansell. It’s just nonsense And he was in my opinion better than Senna and indisputably more fair-play in head to head battle ( not difficult with Senna)

@@TheUlysse2000 How can he could be better that Senna, just see title and win count :) . In 5 years of F1 Mansell scored 1 pole no win. Senna scored 29 poles, 14 wins and one title. You can't seriously say he was better. I agree he was a spectacular driver, no doubt. In 94 he done 4 races as a reminder, 2 DNF, France and Europe, 4th in Japan Therefore certainly not a good choice for 95, or championship contender. He should have won 86/87 titles hands down, Williams-Honda were unbeatable at times. And with a more reliable car 91 because the Williams were on top again.

@@heexxi so you choose the period of time you want right? Ok in 1992 Mansell had 9 victories and one title. What about Senna? In 86 Senna ruined 2 races for Mansell, Brazil and Belgium. You know Mansell was really the man to beat between 86 and 92 and he was very very unlucky. Others often won because of Mansell retirements

@@TheUlysse2000 Mansell ruined many races too, and his 1987 title on his own by wanting pole in Japan and crashed, had to withdraw the two races left handing the title to Piquet. I agree he won in 1992, but that's his 1st and only title. As i said and i recon he was talented, he should have won 86/87/91. 88 Williams lost Honda engine to McLaren ( 15 wins/16 races ) the car was no match to others. 89/90 at Ferrari ? 89 soso, 90 well Prost simply walked over him, and was nearly titled in 90 ( Mansell did not help much as a teammate either watch Portugal ). Unlucky is and excuse for losers. He was certainly not the man to beat , these were McLarens Prost and Senna. I'm watching F1 since 1984, and if you ask any driver / commentator of these years, if Mansell was superior in any ways to any otherr, well they will just say NO. As a finish i had to quote Mr Mc Enroe : YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS ;)

Nah, the helmet blended with the car livery depriving him of his own identity and making him look generic. Senna's yellow helmet looked superb in the car, just like Hill's. Both sticked out. Senna's yellow helmet in a white/red McLaren is the same as in a white/blue Williams.

You are absolutely right. Mansell’ helmet is one of the most beautiful of all.And he had such an unbelievable strength in his arms that the way he was looking in a car was just unique. He was always better than his cars

@@TheUlysse2000, well put!

Lol the car you mean.

He means the driver, easy to see.

42 years old Michael got pole position at Monaco in 2012 in a midfield car.

@@TheKestevon Monaco is a different kettle of fish

@@scottnorman4334 yup. Not many champions were good on that track

It wasnt that bad. The Williams had a massive power advantage over the Ford and was very quick but hard to drive. By Imola, the car was already much better and by mid season, the best overall package.

@@weallfollowmanutd Depending of what you call late season, Senna was dead before it anyway

@@afoxwithahat7846 well, you don't say!

@@weallfollowmanutd Still it was hard to drive in Imola and far awa from beeing good to handle.

Hill had less issues than Ayrton in that car. Seemed like a bad marriage from the start for Senna, he had problems with it, especially with the cockpit, size and position of the steering wheel. In one of his earlier tests during pre-season he told reporters that the car was "undrivable". But the FW16 was quick and had lots of potential, it wasn't bad, just had to be fine tuned.

This was the pole lap. On the Saturday it rained.

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I found footage of him as a lead commentator on ESPN/Fox, he's simply brilliant

Idk but high nosed Williams in 95-97 looked more beautiful to me.

He was not racing in the us at that point in time.

Nonsense . F1 had already passed him by. I'm not a Hill fan but your first statement is just wrong.

Yes overall he's better than Hill of course but at that point Mansell was over 40 years old, while Hill was very good, in his best years and doing well.

Funny how both Mansell and Hill both ended their F1 careers in similarly ignominious fashion parking running cars like babies.

the steering column movement happened only in Imola and especially in Senna's car

That happened after crash at Imola.

Coulthard was and is an annoying commentator. Never gets anything right and sounds righteous while doing it . A windbag.

Cuz it was already fixed perhaps?

Was only the second time Herbert have driven the B194...

pulse 'n' think to be fair, the car was setup to Schumacher’s liking, which is very pointy. Herbert didn’t necessarily like that setup, probably none of Schumi’s other Benetton teammates liked it either considering their relative lack of speed.

Firstname Lastname that’s rather harsh. None of them are all time greats, but not slouches either. Herbert and Brundle are Le Mans winners, and Hill is a World Champion, so none of them are complete hacks like a DeCesaris.

@Firstname Lastname Not true at all. They were all top drivers. Herbert was a huge talent in his early career. Didn't you follow F3000 at the time? He had his huge accident from which he never really recovered, unfortunately. Perhaps he was never quite the driver he could have been, but on occasion he was seriously quick. He never had the full backing of a team though and things never quite worked out.

@Firstname Lastname Mansell overrated? Hmmm... not sure about that. A guy from a Birmingham housing estate who had to re-mortgage his home to get, somehow, to F1, then is able to race on equal terms with Senna, Prost and co, and becomes world champion, then does the same in Indy cars. Overrated. Right... Run that one by me again. And you clearly don't seem to understand that some drivers just don't get the chances in F1. For example, do you really think that Brundle had a chance of getting the full support of the team, the upgrades and the best of everything, running alongside Schumacher? Of course not. Schumacher was a career destroyer. And Herbert was looked upon absolutely as a future world champion before his unfortunate accident. F1 is full of superb drivers who never quite got the chances - too many to mention but that's life

F1-Fan- 82 Senna was 1 second faster than Hill in qualifying laps lol but yeah, Damon HIll cannot compare with these drivers...

+F1-Fan- 82 Well in 1994 Hill out qualified Mansell 3-1, beat him races 2-1 in races and outscored him 22-13. Mansell has no right being mentioned with the likes of Prost, Senna or Schumacher. Prost outscored Mansell 73-37 when they were team mates in 1990, meaning Mansell only scored 51% of Prost's points. In 1993 Damon Hill scored 70% of Prost's points (99-69) despite it being his first full season in the sport (after a half season in the dreadful 1992 Brabham). Another point of comparison is Elio de Angelis, who was team mates with both Mansell and Senna. de Angelis outscored Mansell 76-38, whilst de Angelis actually got very close to Senna, with Senna only outscoring him 38-33. Prost/Senna > de Angelis > Rosberg/Piquet/Mansell

Yeah, but I think Mansell would have demanded a lot more than Hill and Coulthard would.. and also Mansell would have been a very expensive driver to keep. Therefore, I think Williams decided to keep Hill and Coulthard..

+Spinodontosaurus you know of f1metrics right?

So a guy who did the whole season on a car out qualifies a 41yo Former Champion that just comes to race 3 times. Yeah, well done mate. Prost the french politics bastard you mean? Yeah well, we all know how the story went at Ferrari when Prost arrived, don't we?

Because Bernie wanted a world champion on the grid because Senna was dead

Williams was already faster than Benetton at this point. Newey already sorted their problem in mid season. It just Damon Hill was not a world class driver like Mansell and Schumacher.

You just do not know what you say...you are so ignorant

Who cares? You, bitch?

Terrible, unfortunately. He was too big for the car, and honestly getting too old for F1. Australia 1994 was his last hurrah.

The car was a pile of crap to be fair. Once he realised how bad it was he lost motivation. No point making the numbers up after his career.

@Firstname Lastname In your opinion.

@@GuTOHGT Farina, you mean...

Not really