My Autobiography - Nigel Mansell

Not many of you will know that I have moved to Southampton, a few less will know that I am travelling to London every day courtesy of South West Trains, and perhaps fewer still will be aware of my interest in motor cars and motor racing. For those of you out there living in a nuclear holocaust, read some of my ops, lol, but for those in the real world I will continue. I was scouring our local boot sales and charity shops aiming to cover the four hour total daily journeys and one of the gems my eyes fell upon was this book, priced very reasonably at 50p, the normal price being £5.99. Modesty prevents me from mentioning any names, but there are those of you out ...

Is Nigel Mansell the most boring man on planet Earth? It's an impossible question to answer, I know, and it isn't something I'd even considered before I read this. You see, Nigel Mansell was one of the most exciting drivers ever to grace Formula One. He won many dramatic races, had many dramatic crashes, was nearly paralysed 3 times and was always involved in some controversy or another. With a background like this, it should be easy to conjure up one of the finest pieces of non-fiction writing in history, right? You'd have thought so, yet somehow Nigel and his partner in crime, James Allen, have crafted one of the most unexciting ...

Living in Northamptonshire this time of year the world comes to town as the grotty old county becomes relevant once again. Be it menopausal women who come see that even more useless bag of bones in the Princess Diana or the men of the house for the British Grand Prix. The first of the helicopters will be skimming through the cotton wool clouds dabbing the crystal blue sky around the middle of the week. He’s the one Brit along with Tim Henman who got the whole support of the country it would have to be Nigel Mansell. So I figured a topical review is in order of a book I read last year whilst watching an Indy car race in Miami. The book is split up ...