Diciamocela tutta: Rubens Barrichello è sempre stato un ragazzo simpatico, ma anche un gran “piagnone”. Tirare 
fuori oggi il famigerato GP d’Austria 2002 e quel Campionato sarebbe già di per sé assurdo. Penoso, per un uomo di 42 anni, farlo sapendo le condizioni in cui versa Michael Schumacher dal 29 dicembre 2013. Ecco, non fosse che per questo cattivo gusto, questa mancanza di rispetto verso quello che ha sempre definito un amico oltre che un compagno di squadra, anche se sappiamo bene come si svolsero i fatti di quel Titolo non sarebbe stato degno. L’invidia è una brutta bestia e che non si fa per tornare 5 minuti sotto i riflettori… #falsiamici
Barbara Premoli
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Rubens Barrichello claims his former Ferrari teammate Michael Schumacher should actually be just a six-time world champion. The pair were teammates at Ferrari between 2000 and 2005, during which time German Schumacher won five consecutive drivers’ titles. However, during that time team boss Jean Todt also operated a clear ‘number 1’ driver policy for Schumacher, including highly controversial team orders. Brazilian Barrichello, now a driver in the country’s Stock Car series, cl
aims: “Of Schumacher’s seven titles, one should be mine.”
He said the most prominent example of when he had to move over for Schumacher was Austria in 2002, when he was leading the race on merit. “I was not going to let him pass,” Barrichello told Bandeirantes television, “but I received information from Ferrari that made me think. So I took my foot off the gas”.
Barrichello, whose more than 320 grand prix appearances makes him the longest-serving F1 driver of all time, has often been criticised in his 
native Brazil for being “slow” compared to teammates like Schumacher. “I don’t care,” he insisted, “but when they speak about my family, that bothers me.”
Today, he is the reigning champion of Stock Car Brasil. “I’m doing what I like,” said Barrichello, “and having the pleasure of showing Brazil that I am a good driver”.
