From: apayton@acorn.co.uk (Andrew W Payton)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport
Subject: More Mansell Quitting
Date: 14 Sep 92 10:35:08 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England


 From BBC CEEFAX

 World champion Nigel Mansell has       
 announced he is quitting Formula One   
 racing at the end of the season.       
                                        
 The Briton has been unable to reach an 
 agreement on driving for the Williams- 
 Renault team in 1993.                  
                                        
 Mansell, 39, dominated this year's F1  
 championship and clinched the title at 
 the Hungarian Grand Prix in August.    
                                        
 He is now considering the possibility  
 of racing with Indy cars in America.   
                                        
 Frank Williams has said the Williams   
 team "regretted" Mansell's departure.  
                                      
 World champion Nigel Mansell has       
 announced he is quitting Formula One.  
                                        
 The 39-year-old has made it clear that 
 negotiations with the Williams team    
 have broken down beyond repair.        
                                        
 In a statment Mansell said: "Due to    
 circumstances beyond my control, I have
 decided to retire from Formula One at  
 the end of the season."                
                                        
 He said it was not easy for him to make
 the announcement and that he had been  
 asked by the Williams-Renault team not 
 to carry on with the statement of his  
 retirement.                            
                                        
 Nigel Mansell said he had thought long 
 and hard before making the decision to 
 retire from Formula One racing.        
                                        
 "There are many reasons for this. I    
 have tried to give some idea of how I  
 feel. Other people will no doubt draw  
 their own conclusion," said Mansell.   
                                        
 He went on: "For one thing it is clear 
 that Alain Prost has been committed for
 months to drive for Williams.          
                                        
 "For another. I thought I had a deal   
 when clearly I did not. Needless to say
 I do not understand why these things   
 happen, continued Mansell.             
                                        
 Nigel Mansell began his F1 Grand Prix  
 career in Austria in 1980 with Lotus.  
                                        
 He moved to Williams-Honda in 1985 and 
 clinched his first Grand Prix win that 
 season, finishing the campaign sixth.  
                                        
 Mansell came close to the world crown  
 when he came second in 1986 and 1987   
 and his hopes of ever being champion   
 looked bleak after he left for a       
 miserable time at Ferrari in 1989.     
                                        
 In July 1990, Mansell announced his    
 retirement from Formula One before     
 Williams-Renault lured him back and    
 this year he clinched the world title. 


---Andrew

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