{"id":242545,"date":"2025-07-06T11:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T11:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/242545\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T11:22:12","slug":"remembering-the-emotional-day-at-silverstone-when-fate-for-once-smiled-on-johnny-herbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/242545\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the emotional day at Silverstone when fate \u2013 for once \u2013 smiled on Johnny Herbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">I guess it was on Lap 51 of the 1995 British GP at Silverstone that the penny finally began to drop. There\u2019d been a false dawn five laps earlier, but now it looked like it really was going to happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Johnny Herbert \u2013 \u2018The Imp\u2019 as Perry McCarthy had christened him in F3 \u2013 was actually going to win a Grand Prix&#8230; and on his home ground to boot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Winning at home is the greatest buzz. Just ask Lewis Hamilton, or Nigel Mansell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I guess it was on Lap 51 of the 1995 British GP at Silverstone that the penny finally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-242545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}