Nigel Mansell, the 1992-world champion, predicts an ‘incredible’ season next year as five world champions line-up on the grid.
The British driver is expecting a battle of ‘titanic’ proportions as McLaren and Ferrari will be pushing harder than ever to try and overhaul the 2010 champions Red Bull.
“I think McLaren will come back even stronger, but Adrian [Newey] is certainly not lying down and he will be working very hard,” Mansell told ESPNF1.
“I think the maturity that Sebastian Vettel will have now after winning the championship will be enormous. Mark Webber is a good, solid, upstanding man and I think he’ll grow in stature and hopefully it’ll come out in 2011 and he’ll be a real strong competitor with Sebastian.
“And for sure, Ferrari is not going to lay down [either]. They were obviously very, very disappointed. But they are going to be there too,” he added.
“I really foresee an incredible 2011 developing. With four or five world champions on the grid together you’ve got to go back to the early 80s where you had something similar, we had seven one year. It is looking fantastic.”
