Herbert smiles despite unhappy farewell.
Johnny Herbert's final Grand Prix ended in dramatic when his Jaguar was involved in a heavy impact with the tyre barrier after the right rear suspension appeared to fail.
Watched from the pit garage by his wife Becky and his parents, the 36-year old veteran of 161 grands prix tried to get out of the car unaided, but had injured his left leg and was stretchered away to the medical centre for X-rays. Up until then, the Essex racer had shown well having run as high as fourth before an engine cut out at his pit stop him, dropping to 12th.
Johnny Herbert's final Grand Prix ended in dramatic when his Jaguar was involved in a heavy impact with the tyre barrier after the right rear suspension appeared to fail.
Watched from the pit garage by his wife Becky and his parents, the 36-year old veteran of 161 grands prix tried to get out of the car unaided, but had injured his left leg and was stretchered away to the medical centre for X-rays. Up until then, the Essex racer had shown well having run as high as fourth before an engine cut out at his pit stop him, dropping to 12th.
Herbert is searching for a drive in US CART Champcar racing but may accept an offer to be the Williams team test driver next season.
"I guess it was inevitable that having begun my F1 career by being carried to the car, I would end it being carried out of it," said Johnny wryly afterwards, "I'm pretty disappointed to have a good race ruined by a failure like that."
