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ALTHOUGH, FOLLOWING HIS RETURN TO WILLIAMS from Ferrari in 1991, Nigel Mansell and I went through what may be termed a period of estrangement – I didn’t like some of the things he did, and he didn’t like some of the things I wrote – through most of his 13 years in Formula 1 we got along extremely well, and some of my most enjoyable, no-punches-pulled, interviews were conducted with Nigel.
“After talking to fans, I would suggest Nigel’s fear is well founded” The times, of course, were different. To organise an interview in this era means setting it up well ahead of time with the relevant team’s PR staff, but back in the day Formula 1 people were rather less rarefied: you simply spoke to the driver or…
