{"id":495852,"date":"2016-09-01T02:09:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T02:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=35128"},"modified":"2024-12-27T03:09:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:09:14","slug":"rubens-barrichello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/rubens-barrichello\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubens Barrichello"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not only did Rubens win 11 Grands Prix, competing in more of them than any other driver, came 2nd in the 2002 and 2004 Formula One World Championships and win a couple of national and world titles, he also beat The Stig. Who, you might ask, is that? Well, he\u2019s the anonymous racing driver in BBC TV\u2019s world famous motoring show Top Gear, who nobody knows because he never removes his helmet on screen. The Stig\u2019s job is to beat the world\u2019s greatest Formula One and other racers in what the show\u2019s ex-presenter Jeremy Clarkson used to call \u201ca reasonably priced car\u201d or bog standard sedan. The Stig always won because he knew the program\u2019s test track best\u2014until he met Rubens, who beat him at his own game by a slim 0.1 of a second.<\/p>\n

Not the pinnacle of Barrichello\u2019s career, of course, but a telling, if light-hearted episode in the outstanding career of yet another of the \u201cBoys from Brazil,\u201d i.e. Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna and Rubens Barrichello. Senna was Rubens\u2019 friend and mentor and, when speaking of the late three-time F1 World Champion, he said he felt Ayrton was up there still watching over him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n