Rubens Barrichello Q&A

"It was very unfortunate because I had a suspension failure. We saw on the data that it happened at Turn 5. Just as I left Turn 5 and was braking for Turn 7 the right rear suspension let me down and I went straight, and I had nothing to do. I thought it was a puncture and I came into the pits for a new tyre, and all of a sudden I saw it wasn't right, so that was it."



"No, totally new."



"Not really. The car didn't give me any news that there was something strange."



"I think I paid the price for not having new tyres for the race. I was the only one [of the frontrunners] that didn't start on new tyres. I had one set available, but I didn't start with it, I used them in the middle, and I think I paid the price."



"I used two sets on Saturday morning and four in qualifying. I wanted to use them all in qualifying because I thought I had a chance of being on the front row. I didn't do it, and I had a disadvantage of two or three tenths a lap in the first stint. If you put that into account I didn't have a bad rhythm at all, I was coping very well. My feeling was that on the third stint, when I had old tyres and they had old tyres, it would have been the right comparison. I had only two laps before I stopped, but the window seemed much closer in terms of set-up."



"It helps you big time. It helps you in many situations, but it was much more fun without it!"