🇬🇧 Johnny Herbert

Johnny Herbert is an established professional who raced single-seater machinery across fifteen seasons from 1987 to 2004. His primary career was in Formula 1, where he competed from 1989 to 2000 in 162 starts, mostly for Team Lotus. He also contested International Formula 3000 in 1988 and the FIA GT Championship in 2004, and made a single Formula 3 Macau start in 1987.[1]

Herbert won three Formula 1 Grands Prix across his twelve seasons in the series and took seven podiums overall in the sport's premier category. In 1988, driving for Jordan, he won the International Formula 3000 feature race and scored two podiums across six starts. His final indexed campaign came in 2004, when he took three podium finishes in four FIA GT Championship endurance races for AF Corse. He finished 15th in the 1989 Formula 1 championship standings in his best season by points.[2]

His Formula 1 record came against a field including multiple world champions. Michael Schumacher, who won seven titles, was a regular opponent; Herbert typically finished behind him. Mika Häkkinen, a two-time world champion, appeared nine times ahead of Herbert in the final order. Gerhard Berger, an established professional with 210 Formula 1 starts, finished behind him on ten occasions. Jean Alesi, the 1989 International Formula 3000 champion and a Formula 1 regular with 202 starts, was a closely matched competitor across the single-seater categories they shared.