Monaco Grand Prix: Top 5 Races of all time

#2 - The Most Unlikely Winner Ever

Olivier Panis won his only ever F1 race back in Monaco in 1996.

There was another wet start to the Monaco Grand Prix back in 1996 and this race has gone down in folklore as one of the craziest of all time. Damon Hill got the jump on polesitter Michael Schumacher at the start but it got worse for the German, as he slid wide at Portier and broke his suspension. Hill looked almost certain to emulate his late father but his engine failed at the halfway stage and he was also out.

That meant that Jean Alesi in his Benetton now lead but this didn’t last either, as his suspension failed after 60 of the 75 Laps that day. That all meant that Olivier Panis in the Ligier now somehow lead the Grand Prix. He held off David Coulthard’s McLaren to earn Ligier’s one and only F1 victory after starting all the way down in 14th. Who says you can’t overtake at Monaco?

In the end, Panis, Coulthard and Johnny Herbert's Sauber were the only ones to actually cross the line, a record-low amount of finishers and something that won't be broken for a long time - if ever.