Video, 1990 British GP: Nigel Mansell storms to pole for Ferrari in front of his home crowd. Video of Nigel Mansell's qualifying lap, 1990 British GP.

Just a week after snaring his 13th career pole position – and his first for Scuderia Ferrari – for what would be the last French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard, Nigel Mansell does it again in front of his home crowd at Silverstone.

In this short but very sweet clip, the Englishman has just started a banzai lap that would secure him top spot for the British Grand Prix, the eighth round of the 1990 Formula 1 World Championship. His 3.5-litre V12 F1-90-2 hurtles around the original superfast sweeps of Silverstone, the scarlet machine using every inch of the circuit (which would be reprofiled at Maggotts/Becketts and Woodcote for 1991) to stop the clock at 1m07.428s, comfortably ahead of the two McLaren-Hondas of Ayrton Senna (1m08.071s) and Gerhard Berger (1m08.246s). And all the while he’s being watched over by BBC commentator James Hunt, himself polesitter and winner of the British GP for McLaren in 1977.

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