F1: 5 Most Unlikely Race Winners 

#4 Johnny Herbert (Europe 1999)

Johnny Herbert's final F1 win was his most surprising.

Had it not been for his horrific Formula 3 crash at Brands Hatch in 1988, Johnny Herbert could've been an F1 world champion, that's according to many of his peers from his younger days.

Despite his injuries, the cheery Brit did enjoy a successful Formula 1 career, winning 3 Grands Prix, the most famous of which came at the Nurburgring.

The 1999 Formula 1 driver's championship was being hotly contested between defending champion Mika Hakkinen and Ferrari's Eddie Irvine, but neither would enjoy a good race in Germany.

After an aborted start, the race got underway with Heinz-Harald Frentzen's Jordan leading the pack. Frentzen and David Coulthard led the Grand Prix during the first half of the race, despite the unpredictable weather that caused chaos for the majority of the drivers.

Irvine and Hakkinen had fallen well back thanks to poor tyre choices in the weather changes which meant that Frentzen would be level with the leading pair in the standings if he won the race.

It wasn't to be Frentzen's day, though, as the German came to a halt thanks to an electrical problem on Lap 32 of 66.

Coulthard inherited the lead but this didn't last long as the Brit ran wide with dry tyres on a wet track on Lap 38 and was beached.

Ralf Schumacher then took the lead but he too would suffer tyre issues, a puncture put him out of contention. Giancarlo Fisichella could've got his first win but he too spun out from the lead.

Herbert had switched to the wet tyres at the perfect time, allowing him to sneak up the order unnoticed by most and claim P1.

The Stewart GP team had never won a race before and they'd never stand on the top step of the podium again, as they became Jaguar the following year.