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2002 United States Grand PrixNationality BrazilianFormula One World Championship careerCurrent team
Brawn-
MercedesCar #23Races275 (271 starts)
Championships0Wins9Podiums63Career points549
Pole positions13
Fastest laps16First race
1993 South African Grand PrixFirst win
2000 German Grand PrixLast win
2004 Chinese Grand PrixLast race
2009 Bahrain Grand Prix2008 position14th (11 pts)Rubens Gonçalves "Rubinho" Barrichello (born May 23, 1972 in
São Paulo) is a
Brazilian Formula One racing driver. Following the management buy-out of the Honda racing team, with whom Barrichello competed during the 2008 season, he was confirmed for 2009 as one of the drivers in the new
Brawn GP team.Barrichello has scored the fifth
highest points total in Formula One history. Barrichello drove for
Ferrari from
2000 to
2005, as
Michael Schumacher's teammate, enjoying considerable success including finishing as championship runner-up in
2002 and
2004. Schumacher's retirement at the end of
2006 made Barrichello the most experienced driver on the grid, and at the
2008 Turkish Grand Prix he became the most experienced driver in F1 history.As a young, aspiring driver, Barrichello looked up to the late
Ayrton Senna, and when he joined Formula One, Senna in return considered him his protégé. As of the
2009 Formula One season Barrichello is the only driver left competing in Formula One to have raced against the likes of
Ayrton Senna and
Alain Prost, making Barrichello the last still-competing driver linked to that era of Formula One.Contents[
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1 Early life 2 Formula One career 2.1 1993–1996: Jordan 2.2 1997–1999: Stewart 2.3 2000–2005: Ferrari 2.4 2006–2008: Honda 2.5 2009 onwards: Brawn GP 3 Racing record 3.1 Career summary 3.2 Complete Formula One results 4 Personal 5 References 6 External links [
edit] Early lifeBoth his father and paternal grandfather are also named Rubens,
[1] and Barrichello shares his father's birthday: May 23.
[2] Therefore, Rubens Barrichello was known as Rubinho (
Portuguese for "little Rubens"), which has become his nickname.Barrichello won five
karting titles in Brazil before going to
Europe to race in the
Formula Vauxhall Lotus series in 1990. In his first year, he won the championship, a feat he replicated the following year in the
British Formula 3 Championship, beating
David Coulthard. He very nearly joined Formula One, the highest category of
single seater racing, at just 19 years of age.[
citation needed] Instead he competed in
Formula 3000 in 1992. He finished third in the championship, and joined the
Jordan Formula One team for the
1993 Formula One season. During this time, and also early in his
Formula 1 career, Barrichello lived in
Banbury &
Cumnor,
Oxfordshire,
UK.
