F1: 5 biggest crashes at the British Grand Prix in chronological order

#3 Michael Schumacher, 1999

Michael Schumacher crashed at Stowe corner due to brake failure while the red flags were out, breaking his leg. This would keep him out of Formula One until the Malaysian Grand Prix, ending his championship hopes.

Images from the television camera on Schumacher's car showed that while he turned the steering wheel to the right and his brakes locked up, the wheels appeared to fail to turn to the right. A brake failure was blamed. The car went straight off the track through the gravel trap and rammed into a protection wall of tires at nearly 200 kilometres per hour.

Schumacher's accident occurred after the race had already been stopped by a red flag after the cars of Rubens Barrichello and Jacques Villeneuve stalled on the starting grid.