Despite being world champion, Mansell had a public disagreement with Williams. 1964 J. Surtees At the end of the Paul Ricard Circuit's 1.8km long Mistral Straight he went off at the fast Courbe de Signes at over 322km/h (200mph) in his Williams FW10. During their time together at Ferrari, Mansell and Alain Prost had an uneasy relationship, largely due to the British driver's insistence on calling his colleague 'Alan'. [57] The Monza round of the series was cancelled due to noise limitations at the venue, whilst technical issues quickly ruled him out of the Silverstone race.[58]. Mansell is known as the second most successful British Formula One driver of all time in terms of winnings as he won a total of 31 races. On the weekend of 6 May 2007 he made an appearance in the second round of the FIA GT Championship at Silverstone driving a Ferrari 430 GT2 for the Scuderia Ecosse team. My Life & Cars - Dickie Stanford, F1 race mechanic and team manager Evo Magazine 11:13 18-Dec-22. After receiving offers from Arrows and Williams, and first turning down Williams's offer, it was announced before the Dutch Grand Prix that he would indeed be joining Williams. [65] According to the BBC, this was the first time a father has raced at Le Mans in the same car as his two sons. Mansell appeared without his moustache in the first half of the 1988 season. Later that year he was given the chance to race a Lola T570 Formula 3 car at Silverstone. Mr Mansell is understood to be an active buyer and seller in Jersey's property market and in 2013 opened the 'Mansell Collection', a car dealership that also contains a museum dedicated to his. Early in practice Mansell had seen that trying to qualify the car high on the grid was a pointless exercise and he decided instead to concentrate on a good race set-up. So associated with the red 5 is Mansell that, in 2004, he purchased a yacht from Sunseeker, one of his longtime sponsors, which he named Red 5.[74]. Despite Mansell being unpopular with sponsor David Thieme of Essex Petroleum, and much speculation in the press that Jean-Pierre Jarier would fill the vacancy, Chapman announced at the start of the season that the seat would be filled by Mansell. Despite being world champion, Mansell had a public disagreement with Williams. Discover today's celebrity birthdays and explore famous people who share your birthday. He would go on to score five wins for the 1993 CART season, which, with more high-placed finishes, was good enough to earn him the championship. A dismal season followed, which saw Mansell's Williams team experiment with a terribly unreliable (but extremely innovative) active suspension system (the system had worked well when introduced by the team in 1987 where it could draw on approximately 5% of the reported 1,000bhp (746kW; 1,014PS) produced by the Honda turbo, but struggled with the 600bhp (447kW; 608PS) Judd V8). In his autobiography Mansell stated that when Chapman died, "The bottom dropped out of my world. And they were racing with the cars almost made from plastic and attached with a lunatic engine. We send our deepest condolences to the Royal family. Mansell also holds the record for obtaining pole position and scoring the fastest lap and subsequently retiring from the race (1987 German Grand Prix, 1990 British Grand Prix, 1992 Japanese Grand Prix, and 1992 Italian Grand Prix). Following a period of testing and developing the car, Mansell made a successful race comeback by winning the inaugural race of the series in Kyalami in November 2005 (Mansell had won at the old Kyalami circuit in 1985 and had also won at the new circuit in 1992). Mansell recalls one incident where at the 1990 British Grand Prix, the car he drove did not handle the same as in the previous race where he had taken pole position. Nigel Mansell. I had lost a member of my family." Trying to beat Piquet's lap time, Mansell made a mistake and hit the guardrail. In the third race at Imola Senna was killed in a crash on the Tamburello curve. With the number 5 already taken by James Thompson, Mansell raced with the red number 55. Nigel Ernest James Mansell was born August 8, 1953, in Baughton, near Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England. Senna was on 40 points with four straight wins to open the season by the time Mansell gained his first finish with a second in Monaco. A few testing sessions with F1 teams including Jordan suggested another comeback could be on the cards, but it never happened. The drivers found they got along well and from early in the pre-season formed a good working and personal relationship. Doctors told him he had been perilously close to quadriplegia, that he would be confined for six months and would never drive again. In 2015 turn 17 of the Autodromo Hermanos Rodrguez was renamed in honour of Mansell, twice winner of the Mexican Grand Prix (1987 and 1992). In his Formula One debut at the 1980 Austrian Grand Prix, a fuel leak in the cockpit that developed shortly before the start of the race left him with painful first and second degree burns on his buttocks. An 11th hour offer was made to him at the Italian Grand Prix, but by then the damage was done; Mansell retired from F1. After losing the Williams seat to David Coulthard, Mansell signed to drive for McLaren in 1995. A tough 1990 followed with Ferrari, in which his car suffered more reliability problems, forcing him to retire from seven races. In the third race at Imola, Senna was killed in a crash on the Tamburello curve. Elio had seven points scoring finishes to Nigel's two and in addition to Elio's win in Austria, had a tally of more than three times the number of points gained by Nigel. He also held the record for the most races before becoming World Champion with 180 races; this record was broken by Nico Rosberg in 2016 with 206 races. Prost, Mansell's replacement, won the 1993 Drivers' Championship and then retired after the season. The British hero had suffered three near misses, finishing runner-up in the championship to Alain Prost, Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna in 1986, 1987 and 1991 respectively. He is a member of famous Driver with the age 69 years old group. During practice for the 1985 French Grand Prix, Mansell unwillingly broke the record for the highest speed crash in Formula One history. Frank Williams said the demands were 'impossible'; Mansell concluded that if that were the case he would be happy to retire. Nigel Mansell. Although commonly referred to as Leo and Greg, Nigel Mansell's sons are actually called Zansell and Xansell. [29] After retiring from the race, he announced he was retiring from the sport altogether at the end of the season. It was Elio. Mario has since remarked "I guess if Ronnie Peterson was the best team-mate I ever had, Nigel Mansell was the worst" and "I had a lot of respect for him as a driver, but not as a man". Other Formula One records set in 1992 that he still holds are the highest percentage of pole positions in a season (88%), most wins from pole position in a season (nine) and most runner-up championship finishes before becoming World Champion (three). In 1984, Mansell finished in the championship top 10 for the first time, and took his first career pole position but still finished behind teammate de Angelis, who finished third, in the championship. 2006 F. Alonso After aiming for a third-place finish which would guarantee him the title, Mansell would narrowly miss out on winning it after his left-rear tyre exploded in spectacular fashion on the main straight with only 19 laps of the race to go. 1956 J. M. Fangio 1950 G. Farina 1997 A. Zanardi Mansell won the season opener at Qatar in April from pole position. He went on to compete in Formula 3 in 1978 and 1979, where his talent was noticed by Lotus team principal Colin Chapman. Family (1) Spouse Roseanne (1975 - present) (3 children) Trade Mark (1) Moustache Trivia (17) 1992 Formula 1 World Champion, 1993 CART Champion & CART Rookie of the Year. In his first appearance with the team he scored a very unlikely win in the 1989 Brazilian Grand Prix at the Autdromo Internacional Nelson Piquet in Rio de Janeiro; his least favourite track, and the home race of his bitter rival Piquet. That is where Mansell first raced an F1 car, for Colin Chapman's Lotus team in August 1980, on the old. Enzo Ferrari presented a 1989 Ferrari F40 as a gift to Mansell. With the number 5 already taken by James Thompson, Mansell raced with the red number 55. 1999 M. Hkkinen, 2000 M. Schumacher 800x600 JPEG - Nigel Mansell Montage - red5nigl.jpg (0/3) 7. Competition between Prost, Mansell and Senna were the best times of Formula 1. Other factors were what Rosberg later said in a 1986 interview was second-hand information about Mansell which ultimately proved to be false. Tags: Former Racing Car Driver. He later joked that he had booked an early flight home for halfway through the race as he predicted the car's new electronic gearbox would last only a few laps (as it had done throughout pre-season testing and in qualifying for the race). 1998 M. Hkkinen According to Prost, Mansell only attended two or three mechanical briefings throughout the season, preferring playing golf. The Brazilian publicly described Mansell as "an uneducated blockhead" and had also criticised Mansell's wife Roseanne's looks, later retracting these statements following threats of legal action.[19][20]. Teammate Elio de Angelis took a surprise win at the 1982 Austrian Grand Prix, and was frequently faster than his less-experienced colleague Mansell. In his Formula One debut at the 1980 Austrian Grand Prix, a fuel leak in the cockpit that developed shortly before the start of the race left him with painful first and second degree burns on his buttocks. Following this successful season in CART, Mansell received several awards, including a Gold Medal from the Royal Automobile Club and the 1994 ESPY Award for Best Driver. Mansell was inducted to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2005. He recently put his four-bedroom, 7.5-bathroom home on. 1972 E. Fittipaldi However, the car proved unreliable and tricky to handle early in the season, leading Senna to retire from the opening rounds despite claiming pole. The Williams team's decision to develop their new semi-automatic gearbox by racing with it at the start of the season, was at the cost of points in the opening rounds of the championship. However, with seven laps remaining, Mansell suffered a loose wheel nut and was forced into the pits, emerging behind Ayrton Senna's McLaren-Honda. Although teams in motor racing series are generally allocated numbers, Mansell has been associated with the number 5 for many years. A tough 1990 followed with Ferrari, in which his car suffered more reliability problems, forcing him to retire from seven races. 1985 A. Unser 1984 Ma. He has been married to Roseanne since 1975. Despite Mansell's early and subsequent success during 1992, his contract was due to expire at the end of the season. After qualifying 12th (0.681s behind teammate Gerhard Berger in sixth and 2.225s behind pole man Riccardo Patrese in his Williams-Renault) and not even being considered a chance for the race, he charged his way through the field until he pulled off a sensational passing manoeuvre on the McLaren-Honda of World Champion Ayrton Senna on lap 58 to take a lead he would not lose. Mansell contracted chickenpox in the summer of 1988 and after a competitive (but ill-advised) drive in the very hot conditions of the 1988 Hungarian Grand Prix the illness became worse, forcing him to miss the next two Grands Prix in Belgium where he was replaced by Martin Brundle, and Italy where he was replaced by Frenchman Jean-Louis Schlesser. After his departure to CART in 1993 to drive for Newman/Haas, he again retained the red number 5. After losing the Williams seat to David Coulthard, Mansell signed to drive for McLaren in 1995. RM2D2YFN9 - Former Formula One World Champion Nigel Mansell poses for the media during a photocall in London today (Friday) where it was announced that he is to return to the track in selected rounds of this year's Auto Trader RAC British Touring Car Championship. Nigel Ernest James Mansell was born on 8 August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, the son of Eric, an engineer, and Joyce Mansell. . Nine days have passed since Frdric Vasseur first occupied the chair of his new office in via Abetone, Maranello, to fill the role of Ferrari team principal. Mansell's four years as a full-time Lotus driver were a struggle, as the cars were unreliable and he was continually out-performed by teammate Elio de Angelis. 1995 J. Villeneuve Such was the advantage enjoyed by the Williams-Honda that Mansell re-joined still in second place. Part of me died with him. Nigel Ernest James Mansell, CBE (* 8. srpna 1953 Upton-on-Severn, Worcestershire) je bval anglick pilot Formule 1, mistr svta z roku 1992.. V roce 1993 zskal tak titul v srii zvod CART.Ve formuli 1 strvil 15 sezn, v srii CART dva roky. Mansell was the reigning F1 champion when he moved over to CART, becoming the first person to win the CART title in his debut season, and making him the only . Heading into one of the quickest corners on the calendar at the time, where the Ferraris had registered forces of 4.7g during practice, Mansell launched to the outside of Berger and flashed past to take second place. [5 1966 J. Brabham A quarter of a century ago, it was Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost, but . However, in November 2007 Planning agreed a deal with Mr Mansell and he was allowed to finish building the fence. In preparation for the 1989 season, Mansell became the last Ferrari driver to be personally selected by Enzo Ferrari before his death in August 1988, an honour Mansell described as "one of the greatest in my entire career". Mansell was awarded the title of BBC Sports Personality of the Year in both 1986 and 1992. They followed this up with a written contract sent to Nigel's home address in the Isle of Man for final review and signature. Despite this being unusual for the team, Mansell's perseverance purportedly paid off, and met with both Frank Williams and Patrick Head at the Williams Motorhome in Jerez, where they discussed and subsequently shook hands on a deal for a further two seasons (1993 and 1994). 1982 R. Mears Mansell became the most successful British driver of all time when he won the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, as he surpassed Jackie Stewart's record of 27 wins with his 28th. This was demonstrated by the fact that he had exclusive use of the quick but unreliable Renault turbo-charged 93T for the whole season, and Mansell did not get to drive a turbocharged car until the ninth round, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, a race where he climbed from 16th to second and eventually finished fourth in a brand-new, hastily designed 94T. He managed a best finish of third place, which he achieved five times during the four years, including Lotus's fifth race of the 1981 season, and only the seventh of Mansell's Formula One career. The Monza round of the series was cancelled due to noise limitations at the venue, whilst technical issues quickly ruled him out of the Silverstone race. He also had a new teammate in twice World Champion Nelson Piquet who had joined Williams looking to be a regular winner and contender again after the Brabham-BMWs had become increasingly unreliable and uncompetitive. Mario has since remarked "I guess if Ronnie Peterson was the best team-mate I ever had, Nigel Mansell was the worst" and "I had a lot of respect for him as a driver, but not as a man".[37]. The race saw him as the first driver to win in their debut race for the Scuderia since Mario Andretti had won the 1971 South African Grand Prix and he would remain the last man to win on his Ferrari debut until Kimi Rikknen won the 2007 Australian Grand Prix. [23] A serious qualifying accident at Suzuka in Japan for the penultimate race of the season severely injured Mansell's back (a spinal concussion). In 1984, Mansell finished in the championship top 10 for the first time, and took his first career pole position but still finished behind teammate de Angelis, who finished third, in the championship. As the race was over two thirds distance, he would have kept his position and won his first F1 world title. However, with encouragement from Lotus's sponsors, John Player Special (who allegedly preferred a British driver), and with the only other remaining top British driver (Derek Warwick, after John Watson's retirement) already confirmed to be joining the factory Renault team, it was announced Mansell would be staying with the team. Also in the sale is Nigel's kit car, a Birkin 7 Sprint, a South African-made tribute to the Lotus 7 that Mansell has owned from new. Piquet called his win over Mansell "a win of intelligence over stupidity". Andretti announced he was leaving to move to Alfa Romeo at the end of the season leaving Lotus with a vacant race seat. Damon Hill had been promoted from test driver and was running full-time in one car. You voted in your thousands and in the end the result came out overwhelmingly in favour of 1992 champion Mansell, who attracted nearly a third of the vote. The race was regarded by many fans as one of the greatest in touring car history. Grab a drink, sit back, . He set new season records for largest championship winning margin (52 points ahead of team-mate . To recover, he took up magic in order to get [his] brain to work in different ways. Since taking up the hobby, Mansell has become a member of the Magic Circle and gone on to perform around the world. This is the story of Nigel Mansell's time at Ferrari. Before the season started, Mansell could not fit into the narrow car and was deputised by Mark Blundell for the opening two rounds in Brazil and Argentina. There were three video games endorsed by Mansell: Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix (1988, Martech), Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing (1993, Gremlin Graphics), and Newman/Haas IndyCar (1994). It was important for F1 to have a world champion driving that season and with worldwide TV viewing figures starting to decline, they needed Mansell. A few weeks later however, he suffered a substantial crash at the Phoenix International Raceway, severely injuring his back. One of these was a second place at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone where, overnight, the team had stopped using its active suspension (after months of Patrick Head telling Mansell and teammate Riccardo Patrese that it would take many months of work to do so), and reverted to a passive suspension set-up. 1965 J. Clark According to Forbes, Wikipedia, IMDB, and other reputable online sources, Nigel Mansell has an estimated net worth of $90 Million at the age of 67 years old in year 2021. This allowed Williams and Ayrton Senna to finally work out an agreement, and the team received a new sponsor in Rothmans International for a season in which they were expected to remain as champions. Following this successful season in CART, Mansell received several awards, including a Gold Medal from the Royal Automobile Club and the 1994 ESPY Award for Best Driver. Senna was on 40 points with four straight wins to open the season by the time Mansell gained his first finish with a second in Monaco. He competed against other Formula One World Champions Jody Scheckter, Alain Prost and Emerson Fittipaldi, as well as Motorcycle Grand Prix World Champions Mick Doohan and Johnny Cecotto (himself a former F1 driver), each driver having an opportunity to drive Audi, Mercedes and Opel cars. 1982 K. Rosberg Mansell would complete only two of the 14 races in which he appeared in 1988, both being podium finishes. By missing the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, Mansell missed the traditional welcome by the Tifosi for a newly signed Ferrari driver after he had announced he would be leaving Williams to join the Maranello-based team for 1989. He was in his 13th season in Formula One before . The Spanish Grand Prix saw Mansell become frustrated over his car's handling characteristics, he chose to retire after just two races with the team. 1979 J. Scheckter, 1980 A. Jones During this period, he also developed a golf course in Devon. Nigel Ernest James Mansell. According to Mansell however, Williams had initially neglected to tell him that Prost had signed for 1993 at only the second race of the 1992 season in Mexico, a position that Mansell felt would be similar to their days together at Ferrari in 1990. Mansell suffered concussion which kept him out of the race. [30], Mansell scored only a single win, at the 1990 Portuguese Grand Prix, and finished a thrilling second to Nelson Piquet in Australia, and finished fifth in the World Championship. 1951 J. M. Fangio 1986 A. Prost 1999 J. Montoya [81], He was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2006. former F1 champion Nigel Mansell got the chance to drive his Ferrari formula 1 car earlier today at the Goodwood festival of speed.#goodwood #goodwoodfestiva. Quite a different spectacle was offered following Mansell's victory in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Mansell was also the catalyst for the breakdown in the relationship between himself and Mario Andretti. It was to be his best finish in the series, as he failed to finish either race at the next round he participated in at Brands Hatch, and at his final race at Silverstone he finished in 14th and 11th place. This was demonstrated by the fact that he had exclusive use of the quick but unreliable Renault turbo-charged 93T for the whole season, and Mansell did not get to drive a turbocharged car until the ninth round, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, a race where he climbed from 16th to second and eventually finished fourth in a brand-new, hastily designed 94T. As the conditions changed and the track became wetter, Mansell found himself leading the race for several laps, and he finished in fifth position. In 2008, ESPN.com ranked him 24th on their "Top 25 Drivers of All Time" list. Mansell's return to Williams was not straightforward. He also held the record for the most races before becoming World Champion with 180 races; this record was broken by Nico Rosberg in 2016 with 206 races. Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old? Mansell's first season in Formula Three started with a pole position and a second-place finish. It was important for F1 to have a world champion driving that season and with worldwide TV viewing figures starting to decline, they needed Mansell. In 1994, after the CART season ended, Mansell returned to F1 and re-joined the Williams team. Mansell won the season opener at Qatar in April from pole position. Is Richard Mansell related to Nigel Mansell? The Lord of overtaking. All rights reserved. The season was one of change in the sport, with the banning of turbo engines by the FIA and the introduction of the electronically controlled semi-automatic transmission by Ferrari. A keen golfer, Mansell revealed a desire to compete in the British Open Golf Championship and briefly participated in the 1988 Australian Open. He lived in Port Erin on the Isle of Man during most of his F1 career until 1995. He was paired with Alain Prost, (who was also the reigning World Champion), and who took over as the team's lead driver. (key; Races in bold indicate pole position 1-point awarded all races; Races in italics indicate fastest lap; * signifies that driver led feature race for at least one lap 1-point awarded). The highlights are two of . 9 of the 50 greatest F1 drivers of all time by the Times Online on a list that also included such drivers as Prost, Senna, Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark.[6]. These triumphs helped turn Mansell into a Formula One star. Richard Mansell (1813-1904), British railway engineer. Mansell has been married to Roseanne since 1975 after meeting as students. At 69 years old, Nigel Mansell height He would go on to score five wins for the 1993 CART season, which, with more high-placed finishes, was good enough to earn him the championship. His career in Formula One spanned 15 seasons, with his final two full seasons of top-level racing being spent in the CART series. At the season opener at Surfers Paradise, Australia, he became the first "rookie" to take pole position and win his first race. So associated with the red 5 is Mansell that, in 2004, he purchased a yacht from Sunseeker, one of his longtime sponsors, which he named Red 5. He entered 42 races the following year and won 33 to become the 1977 British Formula Ford champion, despite suffering a broken neck in a qualifying session at Brands Hatch. Out of 59 race starts with the team, he finished just 24 of them. Instead Mansell ended the season as runner-up to Alain Prost. On his 40th birthday, however, Mansell would avenge his loss at Indianapolis to score a 200-mile race victory at New Hampshire International Speedway, perhaps his most exciting CART victory. Mansell achieved second place at the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps, and followed this with his first victory in 72 starts at the European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch in England. In addition to thrilling Formula 1 fans across the world, Nigel Mansell's sprint to second place at Jerez in 1986 finished just 0.014 seconds behind Ayrton Senna's Lotus-Renault. [10] Later that year he was given the chance to race a Lola T570 Formula 3 car at Silverstone. Often referred to as 'Mansell Mansion', the 7 bedroom property is up for sale for 3,950,000. Peter Mansell, bassist for English rock band Pulp. Since he had left it in 1993, the team had undergone some significant changes. He was paired with Alain Prost, (who was also the reigning World Champion), and who took over as the team's lead driver. Williams, who was always more interested in the Constructors' title than the Drivers' as it showed that his team was the best, refused to do this, rightly believing that having two proven F1 winners in Piquet and Mansell would better-serve the team than Nakajima would as an F1 rookie. Following Chapman's death, relationships at Lotus became strained, as replacement team principal Peter Warr did not have a high regard for him as a driver or person. Despite a good mid-season, which included a hat-trick of victories, Senna's consistency (and Mansell's retirements at key races) meant that he finished second in the Championship for the third time in his career, this time behind Senna. 1991 A. Senna Mansell believed that 1989 would be a development year and that he would be able to challenge for the championship the following season. 1. [46], Mansell made a return to racing in 1998 in the British Touring Car Championship, driving in a Ford Mondeo for three rounds. g. Mansell would be paid 4.6 million a season, a deal which made him the highest paid British sportsman at the time.[33]. [64], Mansell raced a Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S in the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans, alongside his two sons. [43] The Jordan team said after the tests in Barcelona in December 1996 that Mansell decided against it. 2005 S. Bourdais Nigel Ernest James Mansell (s. 8. elokuuta 1953 Upton-upon-Severn, Englanti, Iso-Britannia) on englantilainen autourheilija, joka kilpaili Formula 1 -sarjassa vuosina 1980 - 1992 ja 1994 - 1995. With a career spanning 15 seasons and holding the 4 th position on the Formula 1 winners list (behind greats such as Michael Schumacher), it's no surprise that Nigel Mansell is seen as a legendary British racing driver. Nigel Mansell's net worth [17], In 1985 Frank Williams hired Mansell to drive alongside Keke Rosberg as part of the Williams team, Mansell later saying "We have the greatest respect for each other. Driving a 79, the seat eventually went to Italian driver Elio de Angelis, but Mansell was selected to become a test driver for the Norfolk-based Formula One team. In a 2012 interview for Sky Sports Legends of F1 Mansell revealed that, had he hit the wall rather than wrestling the car safely to a halt in the run-off area at the end of the straight, the stewards would most likely have red flagged the race. Andretti announced he was leaving to move to Alfa Romeo at the end of the season leaving Lotus with a vacant race seat. The pair were said to be considering a drive in the American Le Mans series, possibly commencing as soon as October 2008 in the Petit Le Mans event,[61][62] although neither driver was in the final field. Mansell had a fairly slow start to his racing career, using his own money to help work his way up the ranks. On his 40th birthday, however, Mansell would avenge his loss at Indianapolis to score a 200-mile race victory at New Hampshire International Speedway, perhaps his most exciting CART victory. Already Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), Mansell was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to children and young people (as president of UK Youth). RM says it will sell for up to 150,000. 2007 S. 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