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Max Verstappen's win at Spa was certainly a remarkable drive with the press/TV reporting that he won from 14th spot on the grid. Actually it was 12th as the AlphaTauris were ahead of him but, surprisingly, both of them started from the pit lane. Didn't have anything to do with them being Red Bull's junior team I am sure.  

However, I wondered if anybody had won from further back than that. Step forward John Watson, in 1982 he won the Detroit GP from 17th position and in 1983 the Long Beach GP from 22nd on the grid. Now that was some achievement in a McLaren which definitely did not have a second a lap advantage over the rest of the field, without DRS and on tracks much less accommodating to overtaking than Spa.

Anybody know a better one?

I believe Hamilton did the same back in 2018... his 66th win, 219th race at the Hockenheimring he started 14th on the grid.