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F1 safety standards 'a zillion times better' - Mansell

Nigel Mansell CBE praised F1's modern safety standards, insisting drivers racing back in his day faced a massive 'downside' if something went wrong. The 31-time Grand Prix winner and 1992 world champion unsurprisingly drew the crowds this weekend in Birmingham at the 2018 Autosport International show. Speaking to broadcaster ITV, Mansell compared his period in F1 with the current times, and acknowledged that Grand Prix racing had undergone quite a transformation in terms of safety. Halo set to evolve and have better integration - Brown "We had a flat out career where we had to look in the mirror some mornings and say, were we willing to put it on the line to try and get that extra...
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