2:39 Seeing a manual shifting open wheel car is a thing of beauty.

They don’t make racing drivers like Nigel anymore. 👨🏻

Steering pulls heavily to the left on a straightaway. Just like my 1981 Ford Escort straight from the factory.

He is amazing at explaining the differences, very clear , great video

Mansell really was remarkable. In his first CART year: Mansell won his 1st ever CART race (Australia); completed 15 out of 16 races; had 10 podiums; had 5 wins with 3 of them being ovals, and one being a superspeedway (Michigan); and placed 3rd at Indy. He came across the Atlantic, and showed up a very experienced, and deep-talented field (Fittipaldi, Tracy, Rahal, Boesel, Andretti, Unser Jr., Luyendyk, Goodyear, Gordon, Fabi, Sullivan, Johansson, Guerrero, Brayton, Vasser, Cheever).

Mansell was an awesome driver. Amazing how he came over from F1 right after winning the championship, and even more impressive is how he held both the F1 & CART titles at the same time. In this day and age can anyone imagine Hamilton or Kimi departing F1 after winning the title to come over and race in Indy?

Spoke clearly, ,precise and very detailed. Better spoken than most teachers or even professors.

Nigel isnt given enough credit. He jumoed into IndyCar when it was in the middle of its golden era. This wasnt a watered down series like the late 90s. THe series was full of talent and he won the championship the first year! I wish he stook around for more than just two seasons.

Ah, yes... back when F-1 cars weren't truck sized and still weighed around 500 kilograms, and races like Monaco were still fun to watch.

It was a shame to see him leave CART so quickly. He brought so many new eyes to the sport.

Great explanation. Mansell was right at his peak and showed he was right at the very summit of world motorsport back then. What a talent to hold both F1 and Indycar titles simultaneously.

Badass car!!! I miss seeing those colours of the early 90s Newman/Haas cars. Indycar was amazing back then.

Very cluey man. Genuinely knows his info and you can feel his interest in describing it.

some say his eyebrowns and mustaghe change places when no one is looking

back when Indycar was a genuine competitor to F1

Awesome cars, awesome series back then.

This car is sitting in the Indianapolis airport right now! Saw it on my way into work today 👍🏼

For all the people knocking other forms of racing, even Jimmy Clark, probably the greatest driver of all time, tried his hand at NASCAR, and not at some fancy big track event, but at old Rockingham, in North Carolina. The folks were astounded at the time, wondering why the greatest driver in the highest formula would "lower" himself to a lower-tech series, like NSCAR, and he said something like "A driver wants to prove himself in all different disciplines of racing", and he said they all have their merits. What an attitude to have, and one that probably would draw sneers from F1 lapdog fans. In the past couple of decades, we've seen an IndyCar champ move to F1 and win a championship (Villeneuve) and an IndyCar camp go to NASCAR and win 3 championships (Tony Stewart), while we've seen an F1 champ (Villeneuve again) try NASCAR and fail, and same with an IndyCar champ (Franchitti). We'll never see it because F1 isn't an open series anymore. For instance, Gilles Villeneuve would NEVER get a chance at F1 nowadays. But it would be interesting to see what a NASCAR driver with a dirt driving background (like Stewart or Jeff Gordon, if they were still young guys) could do if given an opportunity at F1. For a present candidate I'd propose Kyle Larsen, who hasn't done much in NASCAR yet, but much of that comes from driving for a second rate team. Some people will laugh at the idea, but is it impossible that we could see something like what happened when Kenny Roberts moved from oval dirt track racing in the US to MotoGP with a completely different approach to the sport and dominated, won championships and changed the sport itself? Maybe it wouldn't happen, but it's a shame we'll never know, and it's also a shame because it makes motor sports as a whole less interesting.

90’s CART/Indy Car was amazing. As a U.K. resident, Mansell’s debut campaign and the race highlights being shown on British FTA TV was my first exposure to it. Cars were beautiful too. The 1994 Penske was a work of art. I know the modern Indy Cars are a lot safer, but they’re also a lot uglier...

Awesome video! Even though it's 19 years old, it's still incredibly interesting!

His downshifting after the long straightaway was by far the best of the pack every lap - like a machine. And it was a real thrill to hear him do so live back in the day when I was compted a worker's pass.

better looking than today's cars

This was the guy who got me intrested in racing.

this is when F1 and CART were more similar even with nigels explanation of the differences. in the past 20 years F1 became aeronautical while cart/indy pretty much stayed the same even with the new changes to the package in 2012. this was also a time where jumping to indy didn't mean a downgrade.

Ohhhhh I miss those mid-90’s chassis’s about as much as I miss the V10’s in Formula 1. Those things were so ferocious!

What a great explanation of Indy and the car setup. Much appreciated.

The 90s indy cars look awesome, i have a model of that '93 car

great video and thank you for posting, it really takes me back to when I was a kid going to cart races at nazareth. Golden years of american open wheel racing back then.

There are a lot of "fanboys" on here. Any true racing fan can appreciate all forms of racing.

Thanks for posting that. Very interesting, and Nigel is very qualified to speak on this.

Wow, I had no idea these guys had so much possibilities and options to change the handling of the car... amazing video, thanks!

Really interesting interview ! Thanks for posting it !

Indycar was never more exciting when Mansell joined after retiring from formula 1. It was great seeing him race against the likes of Unser, Fittipaldi, and the Andrettis.

It’s so nice seeing cosworth on that engine

dont know where you found this video i dont care but thank you for posting it it was fun in the day watching f1 and indy mix it up when it came to drivers and i love them all thank you

This is at Phoenix International Raceway (ISM now) in Avondale, Arizona!

Atm i prefer Indy car to Formula 1... Indycar has closer racing, and the costs for the engine are a lower and they sound better :)

Just listening to this legend talk is amazing!

what an amazing video, think about it. back in the day, how many people watched this?

Adjustable front wing. In-car radio. I'm quite surprised to learn F1 followed in Indycar footsteps in some ways. I'm a massive F1 fan but credit where credit's due. Mid-90's Indy was pretty good, imo.

One of the greats who battled the greatest!

Super nice guy, fabulous golfer and in his day a unreal in a race car. Remember watching these sat on the coach with cool beer, great day's.

Damn, Nigel has probably already forgotten more about race cars than I will ever know...

Yes, and by doing that it controls its max pressure. As far as I know it, the bov just releases the pressure surge caused by the closing of the throttle.

thank your for posting this, Nigel even Germany loved you :-)

I've kind of thought of him as the British version of Earnhardt Sr.

@kers80bhp The IRL (or the IZOD IndyCar Series as it's called now) is still pretty young, but it carries the legacy of American Open-Wheel racing, which goes back to the turn of the 20th century. It WOULD be great to see some F1 drivers try their hand at it again... When Mansell clinched the 1993 CART championship, he was still reigning World Champion for a few weeks if I remember right.

Great Nigel, champion Indycar and F1

Ya my point exactly...I was saying can anyone imagine Kimi or Lewis leaving F1 the year after winning the title to go to Indy. As in, it would be lunacy to pull such a move...

@VDVShaun.... oval racing provides for extremely fast speeds and PASSING...something not too often found in F1

I watched him win on the Gold Coast in that car!! So cool!

I could listen to mansell forever

How wonderfully old school.

I've always absolutely loved his accent.

@ajdaemon08 Of course there has been a lot of changes, but my point is that in F1, if you want to win a race and, as consequence, the championship, you have to build the best car on the field the whole year. That is what I meant when I said that F1 relies on equipment rather than driver skill.

it is amazing how much these differences no longer exist

@samothsamothsamoth The Penske 1994 pushrod Mercedes-Benz 500I engine wasn't bad either, designed and developed for the single race of Indianapolis, exploiting a loophole in different technical rules between the Indy 500 and CART sanctioning bodies at that time.

IndyCar make Formula 1 looks like a childs play. I really like Lewis to win in sauber. love you Nigell from Pakistan, You are true Champ of the world

I was there workin for molson indy at this historical time w mansell

f1 cars were still miles ahead even then. they had active suspension, traction control, paddle shift, automatic ect the one thing the did have though was higher driver sides in the car which were much more safer, its crazy when you see the old f1 cars of the early 90s with their heads and necks sticking out...

I've heard about Nigel Mansell from readings, to see the man race and talk in these videos is something impressive. I am a NASCAR fan but I watch other forms of motor sport, too sometimes they are better because they have stuck to a formula as opposed to NASCAR changing the formula.

Keep in mind this is a 90s CART car. Modern Indycars are low cost and slow compared to modern F1 cars. But in the 90s the cars were just as powerful as their F1 counterparts. Slightly less cornering speed on road courses mind you, but good luck running a 90s F1 car at Michigan for 500 miles without the engine exploding, or the suspension breaking down. Ovals are brutal.

That was very very interesting.

@gpfwestie True, and while you talk of the series as a whole, I kind of always wished Senna would have come over for just Indy, yet something tells me he never would have had he lived in '94. I remember all the rumors for years. Also, Damon Hill, I'm sort of surprised he never gave it a shot with his father's short track record at Indy. Shumy, well, he has stated he doesn't want to die so he will never race at Indy, lol.

He looks like a British version of NASCAR's Erny Ervine... especially with the Texaco branding!

thanks for using metric units

that would be fantastic. I'd love to see a racing driver in this day and age just get up and say the money isn't enough. I want to be the best, and win at all the famous circuits. I want to conquer the best of the best, in any series at any time. Just compete because that is the thrill of racing. We can still hope that we see drivers jumping from series to series! Tony Stewart is a good example. Shame he never raced in CART. I'd like to see how he'd have done with some good equipment.

also when he points out how the suspension is set up, nascar cars have that weird camber built into the frame to a degree. the cars that run ovals cant be set up for the road courses and whole different car is needed

Well actually, later in the 90's Cosworth was struggling to match the reliability of Honda's engines and while they matched performance the engines for Newman/Hass racing kept exploding at various speedways.

Damn unlucky with injuries super talented driver missed alot when he left f1

What a Legendary driver he was

I can remeber this when he won the two back to back F1 and the indy car..!!

with does sexy big goodyear tires looks so good

He fought very hard to win that championship in '93. Those indycar drivers chased him hard to the end. Like a pack of wolves.

Man, this is the real Indycar. I miss that old times, and that engine sounds. The actual Indy sucks.

what a great segment i didnt waste any time watching this id like to see more from nigel hope hes doing ok in 2018

They were not passing out and crashing at Michigan.

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and beautiful lola cosworth miss those reynards with the slanted frront wings

What's a computter?

@ajdaemon08 Also, the engineers can set the ideal downforce on a raceday, but setup is useless if you have inferior equipment...

4:11 Great cameraman. He's explaining the front wing and the wing isn't in the shot for most of it. 😆

Watching Nigel's '93 oval wins (Milwaukee, Michigan 500, New England, Nazareth) and his almost-win at Indy (3rd and would have won if not for a yellow with nine laps to go) is watching a racing brilliance that's truly rare. To be able to adapt to a totally different style of open wheel racing and to cope with the crazily hectic traffic and overtakes of the short ovals, and the incredible constant speed, danger, and endurance required of the Superspeedway 500 mile races, and indeed master them almost immediately as he did is almost incomprehensible. Especially considering his practice crash and severe injuries (requiring surgery to close a huge cavity in his back caused by tissue literally being ripped off his bones) at his very first oval race at Phoenix gave him a very clear understanding of what accidents on these tracks can mean. The best of these is the new England 200, one of the best auto races you could ever hope to see, with Mansell dicing with Paul Tracy and overtaking him for the win with only two laps to go. Epic. Red 5's '93 title winning season in Indy Cars is something very very special. Oh and a great guy too, you could tell how much his team and crew loved him and vice versa.

Watching this vid again in 2023 made me realize that current day Indycars are physically smaller than their F1 counterparts, while the Cart car in this vid is physically bigger and way heavier than the F1 cars of the time. Only thing that has stayed the same is Indycar cars being heavier than F1 cars, although the current day F1 cars are closer to the weight of an Indycar car.

Fantastic

I miss K-Mart lol

I run a taxi company and would never have hired Nigel because of his lack of enthusiasm for the basics of left / right driving. Love him and Derek Warwick because they never put themselves above their own ability.

@tinySHINEY1 In 1996, Paul Tracy recorded a trap speed of 256.948 mph (413.52 km/h) at Michigan International Speedway which i think is still the world record

I wonder why they have never tried "air jacks" on NASCAR stockers? But then again you cant do 4 wheel changes like in F1 and Indy(can't have that many over the wall in NASCAR).

@ACOWproductions Shumi said it wasn't challeging enough.

Come on Roger, give us a new chassis that isn’t 20 seconds slower than an F1 car around the same circuit. Some more aero, more hp would be nuce

what are the chances that the new chassis and engines will bring back the good old days? One can dream.

nigel mansell, the formula 1 super mario

kimi & lewis have both won the f1 crown in their youth so it would not be so appealing at the moment, may be when there older esp lewis if the price is right and there was no opportunity`s in formula 1 it might appeal to them I think everyone`s got a price, when mansell raced there indycar racing had a great history with some of the best drivers in the world now you have the IRL which is still quite a young series 1996 may be in years to come as it builds its history it may attract f1 drivers

Legend!

@TheAltron5000 its beefed up for oval racing

Really interesting

No it does not...you are thinking of a dumpvalve or blow off valve. A wastegate releases excess exhaust gas so it prevents the turbo from over spinning/producing to much boost.

I'm glad they keep champ cars turbocharged

Good old CART days...