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By Mair Pena Neto (1992)
(Article translated to English by this site Webmaster)
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The
sixth win of Nigel Mansell, that today equalled the 27 wins british record
of Jackie Stewart, was a present from his team mate, Riccardo Patrese.
Not
that the Italian driver wanted to make things easy for Mansell. A Patrese's
win would become the championship more exciting but what was obvious after
the race was the fact that Patrese was forced to let the championship
leader pass him.
Mansell
confirmed that Patrese made a sign to him for pass but he didn't know why:
"He didn't want to tell me", Mansell said. Solicited for
explain the reason, Patrese only said a few words but they were enough: "There
is not much to say about that", Patrese said. "Let's say
that Mansell was pressing me a lot and I thought that was better for the
team let him pass".
Riccardo
Patrese was furious after the race and didn't hide your insatisfaction
during the coletive interview. The Italian driver used irony for talk
about his second place: "I feel very well, the second place is my
usual position. I think the team did a fantastic job", he said,
using the same words that Mansell uses during his interviews.
Mansell
didn't have much things to say about that and did fool faces: "Patrese
had a brilliant drive", he said. "He did a great start
and we had fun during the first half of the race". The British
driver tried to reduce the traction control's help saying that he didn't
use it all time but Patrese exalted the system, aggravating the
embarrassment that already dominated the interview: "I was using
the traction control and in the conditions the race was disputed it was
very useful".
The
British driver almost made a mistake that would put all the Williams'
strategy down when he took a long time for go to the pits for change tyres,
even having a comfortable advantage: "The team did a great job and
I think that was the fastest pit stop we had", he said. "I
went to the pits slipping and maybe one or two laps later than the
expected, I think", he admited.
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