Rubens Barrichello believes his Formula 1 career was prematurely ended when Williams terminated his contract for the 2012 season. He claims he was at his peak with the team but financial pressures led to his replacement by Bruno Senna.
According to Rubens Barrichello , his Formula 1 career was ended when he was at the peak of his powers. Barrichello won 11 grands prix across his Formula 1 career which featured stints with Jordan, Stewart, Ferrari, Honda, Brawn and Williams , making a total of 322 starts. Nine of those wins came at Ferrari.
Barrichello’s final team in Formula 1 proved to be Williams, the Brazilian departing after the 2011 campaign, though he did not feel ready to make his F1 exit at that point, nor was it the plan. In a recent podcast, Barrichello claimed that he was at his peak with Williams, but for financial reasons, the team ripped up his deal for 2012, with Bruno Senna brought in to partner Pastor Maldonado. 2012 saw Williams switch from Cosworth to Renault power with a far more competitive season following – which Barrichello knew would happen – the team scoring 76 points compared to five in 2011. “Unfortunately, Williams at that time, they didn’t have someone who would stand up and say, ‘We should do this, come down here’. There was too many people owning the team and they need money. “So, I was contracted for 2012, which was a car that I devoted so much… It was so much better with the Mercedes engine. And all of a sudden I had a call saying that I wasn’t on the car, but I was still at my peak at that time.” Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton are serving to prove age is just a number in extending their respective F1 careers, Alonso racing with Aston Martin as the arrival of F1 design guru Adrian Newey looms, while Hamilton has embarked on a fresh career chapter with Ferrari. And Barrichello quipped that he is still F1-ready if Aston Martin decided they wanted a new team-mate for Alonso, the most experienced F1 driver of all-time. “If he comes to me now and says ‘I want you to be my team-mate at Aston’, I’ll still be ready!” Barrichello joked. “That’s what I tell my boys: ‘You have problems, and you will have bigger ones, but it depends how much is her
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