Rubens Barrichello

Rubens Barrichello (Barry to his mates) is currently the most experienced driver ever in Formula 1 (2008 season) with 265 starts to date. In fact this year he has outshone his team mate at Honda (the "other" English driver, Jenson Button) having scored 11 points to JB's 3 (as at round 12, European Grand Prix). This includes a podium at the rain-hit British Grand Prix and contrasts sharply with his 2007 season where he failed to score a single point. In fact he could be doing even better if he hadn't been disqualified from the opening race in Australia for going through the red light at the end of the pit-lane (obviously not that ...  Read the complete review

Rubens Barrichello is the other driver for the Ferrari team apart from Micheal Schumacher. He always puts his team before himself, which is really unusual in f1 as most drivers race to win and try to out-preform their team-mate. However when your team-mate is Micheal Schumacher, out preforimg him is a tall order. Rubens instead opts for helping him win the championship. On at least one occasion Barrichello sacrificed podium positions so that Micheal schumacher could gain valuable championship points. With hindsight it was unnecessary because Schumacher would have won the championship anyway, he is so far ahead. Now Micheal Schumacher has won the title he is ...  Read the complete review

Rubens Barrichello used to be a committed driver in Stewart Ford trying to do his best for the team but since he did a swap with Eddie Irvine into Ferrari…he hasn’t been the same. Since he has been at the evil team of Ferrari he has gotten himself into the nasty tactics which comes with the package of Ferrari. Especially in the 2001 season where he has had three shunts all being his fault. They involved Heinz-Harold Frentzen in Australia and Ralf Schumacher in Malaysia and Brazil. Rubens claims that he was just trying to race and get by the other drivers but my theory is that he was behind and felt the evil (Ferrari influenced) urge just to ...  Read the complete review

Rubens Barrichello is a brilliant F1 driver who often is overlooked because of his position of being in the shadow of Michael Schumacher. This Brazilian driver is normally a very consistent, reliable driver unless his Latin temperament takes over. At the Brazilian Grand Prix (2001) the local fans had great expectations for their local hero, who as a child, used to climb over the fence at the Interlagos race track to watch the racing cars. Now at 28 I think the pressure was just a little too much for him at this race. Normally the professional attitude of Rubens keeps him totally focused on the race, but the fanatical fans of Sao Paulo did not leave him ...  Read the complete review

Like his childhood hero Ayrton Senna, Rubens Barrichello was brought up in the sprawling town of Sau Paulo in Brazil, dreaming of becoming a Formula 1 driver. He started competing at the age of 10 and once he'd blitzed the competition in national karting, he arrived in Europe aged 17. Using his dad's ID card to race as he was underage - bizarrely he and his father share the same birthday and name - he quickly found his feet, winning the GM Euroseries and the F3 Championship in consecutive years. He then progressed to Formula 3000 in 1992, and finished third in the Championship. This was enough to make Eddie Jordan sit up and take note and in 1993 ...  Read the complete review