Wednesday, August 03, 2005

What Do You Expect, Rubens?

The big silly season news that came out during the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend was that Rubens Barrichello, Michael Schumacher's guy Friday at Ferrari for so many year, was moving on to BAR-Honda in 2006. Once his hand was forced by countrymen Nelson Piquet, Rubinho has confirmed the move. Today he explained that he decided to leave because of a pass Schu made on him on the last lap of this year's Monaco GP. I can't tell from his explanation whether he was ordered to move over or simply passed on the last lap by his teammate. If the former, being second fiddle is hardly new for Rubens, so why bolt now? If the latter, isn't that what racing is all about?

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