The top 10 great British F1 drivers who were never champions - Express.co.uk
Yes, that’s right: it might be hard to believe, but Stirling Moss was never F1 World Champion, despite winning 16 races and appearing on the podium 24 times. Oh, and he won the Mille Miglia and Nurburgring 1000km race, plus a host of other events. For good reason, he’s widely regarded as the greatest driver never to win the World Championship. However, despite nine starts, and races for McLaren and two other teams, Bell’s F1 career never really got off the ground. However, five wins at the Le Mans 24-Hour race make him one of the best drivers this country has produced. The Scotsman, much like Derek Bell, started 16 F1 races (in the 2002 season), but his skills really shone out when racing sports cars, which bagged him three Le Mans wins and a World Endurance Championship title. With 161 races, Johnny Herbert’s F1 career is to be respected, as he raced for 12 seasons and seven different teams, winning three races in the process. Coulthard finished in the top three in the world championship five times in his career – and by the time of his retirement, he had competed in more races than any other Brit (a record now overtaken by Jenson Button) and won more points (since... Another multi-discipline racer, Warwick not only raced 147 times in F1, but was also World Sportscar Champion in 1992 and was part of the Peugeot team that won Le Mans that year. If ever there was an unsung British driving hero, it’s Vic Elford, Apart from his 13 F1 race entries, Elford was European Rally Champion, won the Daytona 24-hour race and the Targa Florio, plus raced in CanAm. Source: www.express.co.uk
