F1 Racing - UK (2020-07)

Until he was confirmed at Benetton

for 1995, as reigning champion

Michael Schumacher’s team-mate,

it seemed that Johnny Herbert’s F1

career was destined to fizzle out.

That all changed at Silverstone that

season. Schumacher was leading

but tangled with Damon Hill on lap

46 and Herbert picked up the pieces

for a very popular first F1 win

SHOWCASE THE BRITISH GP

2013 will be rememberedmore

for the five dramatic high-speed

punctures thatoccured during the

race than Nico Rosberg’s win. There

was so m uch de bris – which the

marshals didthei r best to r emove

• th at FIA race director Charlie
  Whiting briefly contemplated
  stoppi ng the race to allow the
  track to be properlycleared

James Hunt leads Niki Lauda

at a parched Brands Hatch in

1976. Due to the controversy that
      surrounded Hunt being allowed to
      restart the race, and his subsequent
      disqualification after he had won, it
      is sometimes forgotten that Lauda
      actually led on track for the first 44
      laps until gearbox problems started
      to plague his Ferrari...

86 GP RACING JULY 2020

Until he was confirmed at Benetton

for 1995, as reigning champion

Michael Schumacher’s team-mate,

it seemed that Johnny Herbert’s F1

career was destined to fizzle out.

That all changed at Silverstone that

season. Schumacher was leading

but tangled with Damon Hill on lap

46 and Herbert picked up the pieces

for a very popular first F1 win

SHOWCASE THE BRITISH GP

2013 will be rememberedmore

for the five dramatic high-speed

punctures thatoccured during the

race than Nico Rosberg’s win. There

was so m uch de bris – which the

marshals didthei r best to r emove

• th at FIA race director Charlie
  Whiting briefly contemplated
  stoppi ng the race to allow the
  track to be properlycleared

James Hunt leads Niki Lauda

at a parched Brands Hatch in

1976. Due to the controversy that
      surrounded Hunt being allowed to
      restart the race, and his subsequent
      disqualification after he had won, it
      is sometimes forgotten that Lauda
      actually led on track for the first 44
      laps until gearbox problems started
      to plague his Ferrari...

86 GP RACING JULY 2020