Barrichello attacks 'horrendous' Schumacher
Reuters - Sun, 01 Aug 16:17:00 2010
Brazilian Rubens Barrichello criticised former Ferrari team mate Michael Schumacher on Sunday for what he said was the most dangerous manoeuvre ever used against him.
"I like a fair fight. But that wasn't fair here," the Williams driver told Sky Deutschland TV at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
"If Michael wants to go to heaven - in the event that he is going to heaven - then I don't really care. But I don't want to go before him."
Barrichello went past for 10th place and the final point late in the race while Schumacher, making a Formula One comeback at the age of 41 and after three years in retirement, was 11th for Mercedes.
The stewards ruled that the seven-times world champion, in forcing Barrichello perilously close to the wall and off track while trying to prevent the Williams going past, had "illegitimately impeded" the Brazilian.
Schumacher was handed a 10-place penalty for his next race, his favourite Belgian Grand Prix later this month.
"He kept on coming even though I was already alongside," Barrichello said in the Williams motorhome. "I was lucky that the wall finished.
"I was millimetres from the wall," added Barrichello, who spent six years at Ferrari with Schumacher where the German regularly benefited from preferential treatment.
Barrichello described Schumacher's action as "probably one of the worst" he had experienced and said action was necessary because he was such a role model for youngsters.
"Obviously today I wouldn't back off for anything," he said.
"If we had touched there, I think he would flick it over and go inside the wall like head-on. So it was more of a danger for him, because he kept on coming. I couldn't move any further to the right because the wall was there.
"If you take a photo of the wall and us, there is not a hair in there. It's unbelievable...I am very glad and very lucky that we are here to talk."
Barrichello said he had not spoken to Schumacher because to do so would be pointless.
"You know Michael, you talk to him and he's always going to feel he's right...he's been stopped for three years and we can see he didn't change. He's still the same guy.
"He's carrying something from the past that is not necessary today," he added.
Schumacher, whose comeback has disappointed those who expected him to get back among the winners, was dismissive of Barrichello's complaint.
Schumi penalised for reckless move
Reuters - Sun, 01 Aug 17:08:00 2010
Seven times champion Michael Schumacher was handed a 10-place penalty on the starting grid for this month's Belgian Grand Prix for impeding Rubens Barrichello in Hungary.
FIA confirmed the four race stewards had ruled that the Mercedes driver had "illegitimately impeded" the Brazilian's Williams during an overtaking manoeuvre.
Schumacher will be dropped 10 positions from wherever he qualifies at Spa on August 28.
Barrichello took the final point in the race with his former Ferrari team mate Schumacher 11th.
Mercedes were also fined $50,000 for the unsafe release of Nico Rosberg's car during a pitstop that saw the German's tyre work loose and bounce down the pit lane.
Renault were fined the same amount for a similar offence involving Poland's Robert Kubica.
That's what happens when you try to impersonate The Stig on Top Gear.
LOL.
From Wiki:
"Efforts to conceal the real identity [of The Stig] have included hoaxes, such as having seven-time Formula One World Champion driver Michael Schumacher dress up and pretend to be the character."
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bmwracer wrote:
Yup.
I'm saving some of the good stuff to disc.
Some say his skin has the texture of a dolphin's, and that wherever you are in the world, if you tune your radio to 88.4, you can actually hear his thoughts... all we know is, he's called the Stig.
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