Did Ferrari play games with Rubenss pit stop?
Rubens Barrichello’s second pit stop in Barcelona was a bit of a mess and there were some who wondered whether given the strategies of the two Ferrari drivers whether or not Michael Schumacher might have received a little help from the team from the fumbling with tyres. Barrichello was obviously a little unhappy after the race, saying that he was called in by the team one minute and 20 seconds before the stop and so there was no reason why things should have gone wrong. When there was a similar problem a few years ago the team introduced a system to try to make sure that similar problems would not happen again and after the race Ross Brawn did admit that the team had “cocked up”. It is a nice conspiracy theory to think that Ferrari delayed Rubens to help Michael to win but the facts do not bear it out. Before the final stops the two Ferraris were circulating around five seconds apart for several laps. There was little progress being made until Rubens made an effort on his final full la
