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The Bookworm Critique

Reviewing David Tremayne's book "Rubens Barrichello: In The Spirit Of Senna And The Shadow Of Schumacher"

David Tremayne must be rather frustrated at the moment. Put yourself into his shoes: it's sometime at the start of this year, and you have just put the finishing touches to a rather good biography of Rubens Barrichello. You put a lot of time and thought into your final chapter, and at the end of it all you have managed to produce a nice, intelligent analysis of where Rubens has been and where he is going.

Along the way, you remark that after a couple of flirtatious but unfruitful meetings with other teams, the cheerful Brazilian is happy with his lot at Ferrari. And how does Rubens repay you? By having a 'straw that broke the camel's back' moment with his teammate at Monaco, calling up his old mate Gil de Ferran, and announcing a few weeks later that he will be a BAR Honda driver in 2006.

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