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I saw this from Nigel Mansell and I just had to laugh. Yes, Nigel was a deserving champion, though to be quite frank he would have been a more deserving champion in '86 or '87 than in 1992 when he had what was a massively superior car, at a lot of tracks it was 2 seconds + quicker than anything else out there, add that to a team mate that was a dependable number 2 rather than any serious competition and it would have been damning if he hadnt had won the championship in '92. His justification of "beating 25 other cars" as opposed to the grids of 20 we have today is complete nonsense, if competition was judged on the number of competitors then NASCAR would be seen as the best series in the world, and whilst NASCAR is very entertaining and very popular in the states it doesnt have anywhere close to the international appeal of F1. Also if you look at the quality of the grids back in the early 90s a large portion of the grid were decidedly uncompetitive, particularly in '92 when you had a Brabham, Venturi and Scuderia Italia all on thier last legs and well past the point of being competitive and Andrea Moda, who were amongst the most inept teams in F1 history. I think winning a championship in today's ultracompetitive environment is as valid as ever before.