Barrichello takes Rod in Brazil as Button regrets plan stumble – results
Copyright: Photo4./ xpb / Rubens Barrichello (BRA), Brawn GP, Brazilian Grand Prix, Saturday Qualifying, Sao Paulo, Brazil,.17.10.2009…….. October 18,.2009.12:37 AM …….. Filed Under:./spy shots.1
Jenson Button and his team boss Ross Brawn admitted to making . crucial strategy error, as Rubens Barrichello clinched pole in . crucial and excruciatingly-protracted qualifying session at Interlagos.
Taking more than 160 minutes to complete after lengthy rain delays, the session puts Button an awful 14th on the grid, his 14 point championship lead facing . massive reduction on Sunday with just the Abu Dhabi finale to follow in two weeks.
“We thought the wets would hold up and they didn’.,” Brawn said on British television BBC…”It was . poor call in the end.
“We thought it was about not making . mistake, but perhaps we were too conservative,” said the Briton, renowned as the arguably best strategist in .1.
Button, similarly regretting the decision not to switch to intermediates in .2 but also simply not up to speed with some of his rivals, refused to hit out, insisting it was ..”team effort” rather than someone’. fault.
So with his family in the pits and on home soil to please his drenched countrymen, the Paulista Barrichello’. title tilt is firmly on track.
He admitted that pipping Mark Webber to pole could be the result of having “less fuel” aboard his Brawn.
Sebastian Vettel’. already slim championship hopes are now all but in ruin with his 16th grid place, but he is still not giving up, vowing to “go out with the knife between our teeth” over 71 laps on Sunday.
PosNoDriverTeamQ1Q2Q3Laps123Rubens BarrichelloBrawn-Mercedes1:24.1001:21.6591:19.57630214Mark WebberRBR-Renault 1:24.7221:20.8031:19.66828320Adrian SutilForce India-Mercedes1:24.4471:20.7531:19.9122849Jarno TrulliToyota1:24.6211:20.6351:20.0972954Kimi RikknenFerrari1:23.0471:21.3781:20.16830612Sebastien BuemiSTR-Ferrari1:24.5911:20.7011:20.25035716Nico RosbergWilliams-Toyota 1:22.8281:20.3681:20.3263185Robert KubicaBMW Sauber1:23.0721:21.1471:20.63130917Kazuki NakajimaWilliams-Toyota 1:23.1611:20.4271:20.67432107Fernando AlonsoRenault1:24.8421:21.6571:21.422271110Kamui KobayashiToyota1:24.3351:21.960221211Jaime AlguersuariSTR-Ferrari1:24.7731:22.23125138Romain GrosjeanRenault1:24.3941:22.477231422Jenson ButtonBrawn-Mercedes1:24.2971:22.504231521Vitantonio LiuzziForce India-Mercedes1:24.645121615Sebastian VettelRBR-Renault 1:25.00913172Heikki KovalainenMcLaren-Mercedes1:25.05212181Lewis HamiltonMcLaren-Mercedes1:25.19211196Nick HeidfeldBMW Sauber1:25.51511203Giancarlo FisichellaFerrari1:40.7033
