Unexpected result in the GP of Europe
Brazilian driver Rubens Barrichello took advantage of an error by Lewis Hamilton and his team during a pit stop to escape with victory at the European Grand Prix in Valencia on Sunday.
With 20 laps to do, Hamilton, who occupied the top position since the start of the race was likely a problem of communication with members of his team.
Barrichello took the opportunity to take the command position and spinning to their first win of the season. The pilot of the team Brawn wins a first victory since 2004 and a tenth career.
Rubens Barrichello
Despite that mistake that prevents him from winning a second consecutive Grand Prix, Hamilton takes to the second highest step of the podium.
After a second place in Hungary, the Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen finished third while Heikki Kovalainen, on the other McLaren-Mercedes, took fourth.
Nico Rosberg Williams puts his fifth, before Fernando Alonso (Renault), sixth before his audience. The Championship leader, Jenson Button, author of a bad start and a disappointing race, finished seventh, before the returning Robert Kubica (BMW Sauber).
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The other striking feature of the race Valencian, low overrun, is the dismal performance of Luca Badoer, replacing at short notice of Felipe Massa, seriously injured in Hungary, and Michael Schumacher in the neck is too weak to drive an F1 car again .
The Italian, who has stepped face-to-tail on the track and been overtaken by Romain Grosjean (Renault) wells, to the despair of the Scuderia, besides, has sentenced a stop penalty for went wide.
Grosjean, at its inception, has a roll sawtooth. Returning to Timo Glock (Toyota) in the first round, which sentenced him to a race anonymously, punctuated by a head to tail, then drove very fast honorable to classify fifteenth.