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21 Jul 2004, 20:57 (Ref:1042516)
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Mansell's moustache
Nigel Mansell used to have a moustache.
Now he doesn't. He had one in 1980 when he started F1. He had one in 1995 when he left F1. The question is - did he ever have a moustache-free period of his F1 career, and did he win a grand prix clean shaven. |
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21 Jul 2004, 21:04 (Ref:1042527)
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I don't ever recall Mansell without a moustache during his F1 career.
IMO he just looks half the man he was now that he doesn't have one anymore. A clean shaven Mansell, what has the world come to... |
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21 Jul 2004, 21:08 (Ref:1042535)
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Conversely, Damon Hill never won bearded, I think.
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21 Jul 2004, 21:14 (Ref:1042543)
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I think he was clean shaven at some point in his racing career - late 80s or early 90s I think
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21 Jul 2004, 21:22 (Ref:1042552)
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I definitely recall a picture of him as part of a harrier (I think) crew pre-Ferrari days sans 'tache.
He must have done it in the off-season though. |
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21 Jul 2004, 21:35 (Ref:1042565)
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Yes, he did race sans 'tache. I don't know how many wins he had without it though. Maybe that was the source of his power.
Damon often had winter testing beard. |
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21 Jul 2004, 21:51 (Ref:1042578)
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I believe he shaved it off for for some medical reason, something to do with nerve endings I think.
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21 Jul 2004, 22:18 (Ref:1042603)
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I have a picture of Mansell without moustache when racing for Williams in mid 1988. Really!
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21 Jul 2004, 22:29 (Ref:1042615)
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Jacques did feature on the podium with and without beard in one single season...
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21 Jul 2004, 22:38 (Ref:1042623)
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Scary pictures, cougar. Is it me, or did his mum buy him a hat his head could grow into?
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21 Jul 2004, 22:40 (Ref:1042627)
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He did indeed shave it off for the 1988 season and according to a book I read he had been complaining (complaining, Nigel, Never!!!) to the Williams engineers that the Normally Aspirated 3.5L Judd engine that Williams used that year was seriously down on power to which they retorted you loose a bit of weight and We'll find you some more power. So for the next test Nigel shaved off the tosh and said I've lost some weight now find me more power
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21 Jul 2004, 22:41 (Ref:1042629)
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1988. The winless season at Williams with Judd engines. He also contracted Chicken pox that year and grew it back to cover the scars/spots. It dissapeared in 96 and never publically came back.
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21 Jul 2004, 22:42 (Ref:1042632)
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damm it! a minute too late!
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21 Jul 2004, 22:51 (Ref:1042641)
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If I had a team I'd insist on the drivers being clean shaven.
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21 Jul 2004, 22:52 (Ref:1042644)
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22 Jul 2004, 19:33 (Ref:1043791)
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anyway ...back to Nige's tash !....
that was a real piece of class dont you think .....Im sure he took the tash off in 88 when he had the Jud engines at Williams and kept it off during the 1st part of his tests at Ferrari ... |
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22 Jul 2004, 20:41 (Ref:1043873)
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I've seen a video of his first Ferrari test and he was moustached at that point.
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22 Jul 2004, 21:49 (Ref:1043940)
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Nigel looks like Captain scarlet in the second photo Cougar posted.
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23 Jul 2004, 15:26 (Ref:1044775)
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He looks better without the 'tache, really. It always looked like a third eyebrow.
The man has fantastic follicular engineering. |
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23 Jul 2004, 16:33 (Ref:1044835)
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The tache was attached to a handle and is now being used as a brush in the pitlane at Silverstone.
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