Button’s team-mate Rubens Barrichello was not impressed after the race.
Jenson Button continued a stellar start to the Formula One season with victory at the Spanish Grand Prix on this day in 2009, but not everyone in his Brawn GP team was happy about the outcome.
But Barrichello made it clear he was dissatisfied with the manner of his colleague’s success in Spain, suggesting the Briton had been prioritised by the team and even going as far as threatening to quit unless he could compete on a level playing field.Button was overtaken by Barrichello on the first corner and spent 18 laps behind, only for team principal Ross Brawn to intervene and switch him to a two-stop strategy in the pit lane.
While Button topped the podium, the frustration of his team-mate was the talk of the paddock afterwards.“I’m very experienced and if that happens I won’t follow any team orders any more. I’m making it clear now so everybody knows. It’s in my own best interests to learn what went wrong today because I have the ability to have won the race, but I didn’t.
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