The Gentleman Magazine Issue 15 | June 2019 | Page 34

1992 F1 WORLD CHAMPION NIGEL MANSELL’S
WILLIAMS-RENAULT ‘RED FIVE’ OFFERED AT
BONHAMS
The Williams-Renault FW14B Formula 1 car in which legendary
British racing driver Nigel Mansell won five Grand Prix races
on his way to becoming 1992 Formula 1 World Champion
Driver is to be offered by Bonhams at the Goodwood Festival
of Speed Sale on 5 July 2019.
This historic, sophisticated and complex Formula 1 car
contested 13 of that year’s 16 qualifying Grand Prix races,
and was driven by World Champion Nigel Mansell in seven
of them. The combination of Nigel Mansell and this Williams-
Renault FW14B chassis ’08’ won five of those seven Grand Prix
races and finished 2nd in another before the car was entrusted
to Mansell’s Italian team-mate, Riccardo Patrese.
Under Mansell’s command, the car became known as ‘Red
Five,’ after his race number, and while piloted by Patrese, it
became ‘White Six.' Patrese contested a further six Grand Prix
races in this car that year, scoring World Championship points
in three of them before ending the season as runner-up in the
Drivers’ competition to World Champion Mansell.
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During that season, the Mansell went on to break Ayrton
Senna’s contemporary record of eight Grand Prix victories in
a single season by adding four more to his Williams-Renault
FW14B haul, thereby becoming the first driver in Formula 1
racing history to win nine World Championship-qualifying
Grand Prix races within a single season.
He sealed that memorable year’s Drivers’ Championship at
the Hungarian Grand Prix in mid-August, with five qualifying
rounds still to run. Mansell became the first Briton to win
the World title since James Hunt in 1976 and, in parallel,
Williams-Renault won the 1992 Formula 1 Constructors’
World Championship.
Overall, this spectacularly historic World Champion Formula
1 car contested 13 World Championship-qualifying Grand
Prix races, winning five and finishing second twice. It qualified
on pole position seven times for its 13 Grand Prix races.
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