Grapevine: Mansell Looking for Part-Time F1 Job

Former Formula One World Champion Nigel Mansell has revealed he could make a return to the sport in the future - but only in a part-time advisory role for a team.

Briton Mansell, who retired after 14 years in Formula One and one World Championship in 1992, believes his experience could be invaluable in the current times of financial trouble. He ruled out a permanent move to Formula One team management, but told British newspaper Motorsport News: "I wouldn't have a problem getting in an advisory role, in fact I'd probably like that.

"It would be very interesting and satisfying to be part of something and making it successful and anything is possible in Formula One if the package is exciting enough. I do know a little bit about motor racing and, who knows, from time to time I do give a quiet opinion to people who ask."

Mansell, 49, is no stranger to the business side of motor racing having helped run the Mansell Madgwick Formula 3000 team in the early nineties and he would not be the first driver of his generation to switch to Formula One management.

Former rival Alain Prost bought the Ligier Formula One team in 1997 and ran it as Prost until they went bankrupt at the start of last season. But Mansell admitted he is not prepared to commit as much to the sport.

"I wouldn't want to do it full time," Mansell said. "I would not really want to go to all the races but, even at the age I am, I'd be interested in going to some tests."

Mansell became the only back-to-back winner of Formula One and CART titles when he crushed the opposition in Formula One in 1992 and then dominated the American race series after being dumped by Williams in favour of Prost.

He admitted the team's decision to drop him is still difficult to bear and added: "I was so looking forward to actually defending the world title in the manner in which I'd won it. I didn't want to leave Formula One."