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F1: Beyond The Grid

30 Days of BTG: Day 4 – Why Rubens Barrichello let Schumacher win 2002 Austrian GP

F1: Beyond The Grid

karenellenbevan

Leisure, Sports, Technology, Automotive

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🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

30 Days of Beyond The Grid continues with a Brazilian Formula 1 legend in the shape of Rubens Barrichello.

In this clip, Rubens tells Tom why he followed Ferrari team orders to let Michael Schumacher take victory from him at the Austrian Grand Prix in 2002.

Follow F1 Beyond The Grid and check in again on Day 5 to hear from another special guest in our countdown to the new series, which starts Wednesday 28th February.

For Rubens’ full conversation with Tom back in 2019, listen here.

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0:00.0

The steakhouse stack, with two beef paties, crispy onions and peppercorn sauce is the kind of McDonald's you take photos of to put pride of place on the mantelpiece.

0:07.6

Sure you'll need to make room.

0:09.2

But you remember what your wedding day looked like.

0:11.6

The steakhouse stack, it's McDonald's and then some.

0:14.4

Available until the 6th of feb, sir from 11 a.m. subject to availability,

0:18.8

participating restaurants only. Welcome back to 30 days of F1 Beyond the Grid, a preseason series featuring the best bits of the Beyond

0:36.4

the Grid archive.

0:37.8

I'm Tom Clarkson and for day four, you're going to hear from the fourth most experienced Formula One driver of all time.

0:45.8

Behind Fernando Alonso, Kimi Reichenan and Lewis Hamilton, sits Brazil's Rubens Barrichello who competed in

0:52.2

322 races across 19 Formula One season.

0:57.0

He may not be a world champion, but Rubens' longevity at the very pinnacle of motorsport definitely warrants legendary status. is longevity

1:03.7

at the very pinnacle of motorsport definitely warrants legendary status.

1:05.1

And you might have heard from Rubens quite recently if you watch the Disney Plus

1:09.1

series about Braun Grand Prix's miracle 2009 season, where they became the first and so far only team

1:16.7

to win both the constructors and driver's titles in their debut season.

1:21.2

Rubens won races but missed out on the title that year as teammate Jensen Button took

1:26.0

the crown and frustratingly for Rubens he's no stranger to being a number two.

1:31.9

From 2000 to 2005 he raced for Ferrari in the shadow of Michael Schumacher who won five titles in a row during that spell.

1:40.0

And Ferrari's favouritism of Schumacher was never more evident than at the Austrian Grand Prix in 2002.

1:47.0

It doesn't look as though there's going to be any team orders here,

1:50.0

and nor should we have really believe there would be.

1:52.0

Oh, he's getting very close to Michael Schumacher. And nor should we have really of believe there would be.

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