TREMAYNE: Remembering the emotional day at Silverstone when fate – for once – smiled on Johnny Herbert
F1 Hall of Fame journalist David Tremayne looks back at a triumph that no one expected, but that was richly deserved after Johnny Herbert had been battered and cheated by fate.
I guess it was on Lap 51 of the 1995 British GP at Silverstone that the penny finally began to drop. There’d been a false dawn five laps earlier, but now it looked like it really was going to happen.
Johnny Herbert – ‘The Imp’ as Perry McCarthy had christened him in F3 – was actually going to win a Grand Prix... and on his home ground to boot.
Winning at home is the greatest buzz. Just ask Lewis Hamilton, or Nigel Mansell.
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