
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, November 18, 1993                   TAG: 9311180201
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: METRO 
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MANSELL TOP DRIVER

Nigel Mansell, who took American racing by storm by winning five races and the IndyCar PPG Cup championship a year after taking the Formula One crown, is the winner of the 1993 Driver of the Year Award.

Rusty Wallace, whose late-season charge nearly kept Dale Earnhardt from winning his sixth NASCAR Winston Cup title, was a close second in the balloting conducted this week by a national panel of motorsports writers and broadcasters.

Mansell, a 40-year-old Englishman, drew six of the 12 first-place votes, with Wallace getting five and one going to dominating NHRA Funny Car champion John Force. Mansell outpointed Wallace 86-77.

Earnhardt, a former Driver of the Year who won six races in 1993, was third with 55 points, followed by Force with 32, NHRA Top Fuel champion Eddie Hill with 15 and Indianapolis 500 winner and series runner-up Emerson Fittipaldi, another former Driver of the Year, with 12.

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AUTO RACING

by CNB