When Nigel Mansell elected to re-join Williams after two tumultuous years racing for Scuderia Ferrari, few could have predicted the thrilling end to the British racing driver’s long and ultimately successful Formula 1 career.

Having come close to the Drivers' Championship on two previous occasions with Williams—finishing 2nd overall in successive years over 1986 and 1987, once behind Alain Prost and latterly behind teammate, Nelson Piquet—Mansell maintained ambitions of clinching the title for himself, which would be realised behind the wheel of a Williams car in 1992.

Though Mansell had been the last driver personally recruited by Enzo Ferrari to race for his team, the Englishman severed his ties with Formula 1’s most successful team to force the move back to Williams.

His first season at Ferrari brought mixed success, getting to grips with the newly introduced semi-automatic gearbox in the Ferrari 640 to secure two race victories and finish 4th overall in the Driver Standings.

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