Rubens Barrichello
Rubens Barrichello
Rubens "Rubinho" Gonçalves Barrichellois a Brazilian racing driver who competed in Formula One between 1993 and 2011. After losing his seat at the Williams F1 team, Barrichello moved to the IndyCar Series in 2012 with KV Racing Technology. After only one year and being unable to find a ride for the 2013 season, Barrichello moved back to Brazil to participate in the Brazilian Stock Car V8 Series, winning the championship in 2014 while driving for Full Time Sports...
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth23 May 1972
CitySao Paulo, Brazil
Look at Hungary, where we were expecting very hot conditions and a difficult weekend. In the end, we did very well there. Here, like in Spa, the weather could play its part. So, I am in a strong frame of mind and will go to the track thinking I can fight for the win. I would love to do well in Brazil. That is my main target for this end of the season.
He is going to have a tough time, absolutely,
There is a good motivation for the team to have someone who is still young and motivated to win and to transform everything in a good way. I am not going there to actually say 'change this, change that' I am going there to learn how the team works and I am bringing the 13 years of experience to make that a winning team.
But the rest is up to him to show his speed.
I feel very comfortable going into the first race.
I feel that the Honda is always very powerful and I'm very much looking forward to working with them.
I am continuing to learn with every day that I spend with the team and am very happy with the progress that we have made over the last two weeks.
Even though we started quite late today, we have still been able to do many laps this afternoon and have seen some good results. I hope that my input helps the team continue this development and progress further when we have the new car available next week.
But (Michael) immediately got the upper hand with the hot lap qualifying.
Every change brings a new motivation, that is a fact,
My target remains winning the drivers' title and to achieve that I felt that I needed a renewed motivation,
I would call him a friend, even if we don't telephone each other daily.
It would be a lack of respect to stop now and say okay, I don't care any more what's happening to Ferrari,
To be honest, I was quite happy with the way the car went this afternoon, as we improved it quite a bit from the morning session. It behaved a little bit better than we had expected and we seem to be a bit more competitive than over the past couple of weekends, especially in race trim. Now we have to wait and see what the weather does tomorrow as that could be an important factor for the next two days.