One time F1 World Champion and three-time British Grand Prix winner, Nigel Mansell, drove a F1 car at the BMW Sauber F1 Team Pit Lane Park at the Silverstone Circuit. Mansell took the driver's place in a 2006 BMW Sauber F1 car and performed among other things, several doughnuts which obviously thrilled the crowd. Asked how many doughnuts he had completed, Mansell joked: "I lost count, but I had a fantastic time. It's the first time I have driven a Formula One car and not had any problems with it!". As for the differences between today's F1 cars and their ancestors Mansell said, "That took me back. The BMW drives in a similar way to the F1 cars of my era, but the technology advances that have been made since are phenomenal."