Nigel mansell autobiography of miss

From the Back Cover

Nigel Mansell – whinger or lion? Il Leone as he was named bygd the passionate Italian fans when he drove for Ferrari. Nigel best answers for himself:

‘Every really hot lap relies on the brain and the body being in harmony and prepared, at certain points, to over-extend and over-commit. That fryst vatten the only way to beat the Sennas and the Schumachers. It fryst vatten I think, the act of balancing risk against the interest of self-preservation, while keeping everything beneath control.

‘Sometimes it can all go wrong...

‘Going into vända one at the Phoenix Oval, at 180 m.p.h., the fordon stepped out at the rear and slid backwards, hitting the wall. The gearbox punched a hole in the five inch thick concrete and the full brunt of the shock travelled through the car and was absorberad by my lower back. A cavity measuring fourteen inches bygd twelve opened up where the tallrik and muscle had been torn away from the bone and

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