KYALAMI (South Africa), Nov 13: Briton Nigel Mansell won the inaugural Grand Prix Masters race at the Kyalami circuit near Johannesburg on Sunday. Mansell, 52, led the 30-lap race from start to finish and held off the challenge of Brazil’s Emerson Fittipaldi to win by less than half-a-second.

Italians Ricardo Patrese and Andrea de Cesaris finished third and fourth while Briton Derek Warwick and Austrian Hans Stuck completed the top six.

Results: 1. Nigel Mansell (Britain) 50 minutes 55.154 seconds 2. Emerson Fittipaldi (Brazil) 50:55.562 3. Ricardo Patrese (Italy) 51: 15.816 4. Andrea de Cesaris (Italy) 51:16.854 5. Derek Warwick (Britain) 51:17.007 6. Hans Stuck (Austria) 51:18.355. —Reuters