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Найджел Мэнселл
Владимир Коваленко:
--- Цитировать ---The true value of an easily-identifiable
race number was made apparent in the period
during the mid-Eighties when Nigel Mansell was
with Williams, and especially in the 1986 and 1987
seasons when he was paired with Nelson Piquet.
To allow the signalling crew to distinguish the
cars, the race numbers were a good two feet high,
with Mansell's 5 picked out in red and Piquet's 6 in
white. ‘Red Five’ not only caught the imagination
of the public but also proved attractive to headline
writers on the Fleet Street tabloids, all of which
sent their correspondents to trail ‘Our Nige’ around
the world. Nervous of each other and anxious
not to concede any scoops, they hunted in a
scruffy pack which kept Williams PR officer Ann
Bradshaw busy. For reasons about which one can
only speculate, Messrs Nigel Roebuck, Alan Henry,
Maurice Hamilton and Mr Tremayne dubbed them
‘Brown Five.’
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(GrandPrix+_171_2015_10_Hungary_.pdf)
Владимир Коваленко:
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Очень похоже было с Мэнселлом. Я подошел к нему там же в Эшториле. "Найджел, я такой-то такой-то, мы можем сделать интервью?" Рядом стоял Питер Уиндзор, который тогда работал в Williams. Услышав мой вопрос, Найджел повернул голову на Петера, и тот едва заметно кивнул. Мэнселл повернулся обратно и сказал: "Окей, давай".
О чем говорили?
Ничего экстраординарного. У Найджела такой голос, что всегда, когда он говорил, складывалось впечатление, что он жалуется.
Да, это типично для британцев. Они любят поныть.
Это точно. Но Найдж был чемпионом в этом деле
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Владимир Коваленко:
Очень интересная информация из статьи Insight - Williams heritage (Motorsport - 2015.05).pdf
--- Цитировать --- Damon Hill‘s Williams FWIB
cut out during the F1 world championship‘s
6 Oth anniversary celebration in Bahrain. At the
time, Stanford and his team were unable to
interrogate the chassis because their MS-DOS
laptop was on the blink and nobody at the
circuit knew how to fix it.
“Happily, “ Stanford says, “there is now a
company that can take a modern laptop and
convert it to run older software such as
MS—DOS. In that particular incident with
Damon and the FW1 B, we pulled the fuel tank
to bits that night and then realised the problem
had in fact been a consequence of running too
high a gear at too few revs, which the Renault
alternator didn‘t like. After we put it all back
together, we told him to use low gears with high
revs and the problem went away...“
Williams: “It was pretty much what
happened to Nigel Mansell at Montreal on the
final lap in 1991. He was trundling around a
first-gear hairpin in third, waving to the crowd,
and the Renault alternator couldn‘t keep up. The
car fired up perfectly in the garage after being
towed back, which made it all the more painful.“
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Владимир Коваленко:
Из интервью с Фрэнком Уильмсом Lunch with Frank Williams (Motorsport - 2015.05).pdf:
--- Цитировать ---Having Nigel in the team was hard work to
an extent, because he complained quite a lot.
But he was magic when he was in the cockpit. It
all began to happen when he was in the car, and
it was well worth the arguments when he was
out it. He did a wonderful job for the team, and
I have all the time in the world for him. In 1992
he’d already clinched the championship by
August, but by then Carl Haas had been
soft-soaping him, trying to nick him for Indycar
for 1993. On the morning of the Italian Grand
Prix he went into the press room and
announced to all the journalists that he was
walking away from F1. We’d been negotiating
for a long time. In a weak moment I thought,
I don't need this aggro any more, and he was
gone. But it was arguably a good move for him,
because he earned a lot of fame and money for
himself in America.
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Считается, что сначала Уильямс подписал контракт с Простом, и это послужило причиной ухода Мэнселла, а не "обхаживания" Карлом Хаасом.
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