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Since 2016 with Nico Rosberg winning the Drivers' Championship, we have not had a first timer as a world champion and in this 2018 F1 season, it looks likely to be a fight for a 5th title between Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel.
There are many drivers who have also been on the podium but have not ended up with an F1 World Championship and so here are the top five drivers with the most podiums in Formula One but have not picked up the elusive Driver's World Championship, going from lowest to the highest.
#5 Mark Webber- 42 podiums
Just edging out Felipe Massa off this list by a grand total of 1 podium is Mr. Aussie Grit himself, Mark Webber. Sadly regarded like a few on this list as the no.2 driver of the team, inferior to their superstar teammate, you would always wonder what would happen if these drivers were the no.1 driver at that time.
Webber spent 11 years in Formula One, with four different teams. Starting off in Minardi in 2002 and then Jaguar, he didn't score his first podium till the 2005 season when he was driving for Williams. A disappointing 2006 season saw him go to Red Bull where he saw out his career and had a lot more success in the V8 era.
Like in Williams, he got a podium in his first season, but none in his second season. However the retirement of David Coulthard and the necessity of experience next to a young Sebastian Vettel required Webber to stay, and he did a very good job for the team.
In the 2009 season, he scored his first podium in China and then got another in Spain, before coming second in two races in a row before eventually finishing on the top spot for the first time in his career in Germany. Throughout his time at Red Bull, he scored consistent podiums which allowed Red Bull to win four consecutive Constructors' titles but all of the Drivers' titles went to his 'superior' teammate Vettel.
In 2010, he was in the fight for the World title which Vettel claimed but would mainly stay as the no.2 driver to back up Vettel, especially as no one could forget "Multi 21" at the 2013 Malaysian Grand Prix, where Vettel ignored the instructions of Red Bull and overtook Webber to win the race.
A fine racer, and a very enjoyable pundit now on Channel 4 in the UK, Webber was a reliable teammate with a typical grit of an Aussie.
#4 Carlos Reutemann - 45 podiums
Quite funnily missing out on the championship here is Carlos Reutemann. Possibly the unluckiest man to be on this list, because he doesn't have a World Championship because of one point in 1981.
He was leading the championship, and the man nicknamed "Lole" was pole position for the last race at Caesar's Palace, but he failed to accrue any points in the race and his teammate Alan Jone, won the race and the title by one point. Talk about near margins.
One of only two drivers to have won points in Formula One and in World Rally Championships, he also went into politics after his 10-year stint in Formula One, and still has a mandate until 2021.
Unlike Webber, he scored podiums in every season apart from two seasons which is an impressive record, and he has driven for Ferrari, something not a lot of drivers can boast on their CV, well a few at least.
#3 Gerhard Berger - 48 podiums
Known as one of the best practical jokers back in the day, Berger mades the podium, three more times than Reutemann.
Driving for Ferrari and Mclaren is no easy feat to achieve in an F1 career, but Berger did that in his. He can also write, he was teammates with Nigel Mansell and one of the all-time greats in Ayrton Senna. Moving away from the cars and people he drove with, he can also say that he stepped on the podium in all apart from two seasons in his F1 career and only one of them was a full season.
What is better, these non-podiums came at the start of his career and so for 11 seasons in a row he scored a podium and only in one of those seasons, he did not achieve a win.
However, there are two moments that may stand out in his career. The first is the win in Monza in 1988, with him being the only other driver to win a race that season except for Prost and Senna, especially driving a Ferrari in front of the Tifosi. The second is probably his last win in F1 in the 1997 season, where he overcame an injury which saw him miss 3 races and also the death of his father to win in Germany.
#2 David Coulthard - 62 podiums
One of my favourite commentators in Formula One in the current era, DC was a pretty decent driver in his time as well. Just like former teammate Webber, he played a role in helping the other driver in winning multiple World Championships and one Constructors' Championships as well.
He came into Formula One with possibly the biggest pressure to have. He was the test driver for Williams for two years from 1993, and in 1994, the death of the great Ayrton Senna meant Coulthard came in to replace one of the all-time greats. However, he did score a podium in that season and would continue to be a consistent feature on podiums in the dominant Ferrari years at the turn of the century.
This did eventually slow down, with his move to Red Bull in 2005, where he would only score 3 podiums in 4 seasons, but Red Bull were certainly not the superpower then as they were in 2010 and are now.
Coulthard gave the team a real key foundation, in their early years which is fundamental for a young team, which eventually blossomed to the team we know today.
#1 Rubens Barrichello - 68 podiums
Taking the top spot on this podium, is sadly what people would epitomise as a "second driver" in Rubens Barrichello. Helping Michael Schumacher and Ferrari in their dominance of the 2000s and helping Jenson Button (but certainly more competitive) in 2009, Barrichello is the real team player, any team would want. He would put the team first.
He has records of his own as well. He has the most race starts in the history of the sport, with over 300 races in the sport.
He has had some memorable moments in F1. He had ensuing bad luck at home, where he has led the Grand Prix so many times, but would retire leading the race, to the heartbreak of the Brazilian faithful.
However the most infamous moment of the Brazilian, and according to this list, the greatest driver not to win a World Championship was in 2002 at the Austrian GP, where he was leading a Ferrari one-two and then on the final lap, slowed down to let his teammate Michael Schumacher win after listening to team orders. This led to the ban on team orders.
