This is a new idea I've had for my blog. Hopefully I'll have a new person up every Friday morning with stats about them. First up, thanks to Top Gear, is impossible-to-spell Rubens Barrichello.
Name: Rubens Goncalves "Rubinho" Barrichello
Date of Birth: 23rd May 1972
Place of Birth: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sport: Formula 1 racing
Car number: 9
Team: Williams
Number of F1 races so far: 294
Best finish this season: 4 (Valencia)
Worst finish this season: 18 (Monaco – retired)
Points this season (up to Silverstone): 29
Points in whole career: 636
Best career finish: 2nd (2002 - 77 pts, 2004 - 114 pts)
Top Gear lap time: 1:44.3
Rubens Barrichello is the oldest driver in F1, and has had more races than anyone else in the sport ever. If all goes to plan, he will race his 300th race in Japan on October 8th. His points tally of 636 is the fourth-greatest of any F1 driver, just behind Michael Schumacher (1405), Alain Prost (798.5) and Fernando Alonso (675).
His most recent achievement was on Wednesday 7th July 2010, when he raced the Top Gear test track in the old reasonably-priced-car, which is kept for Formula 1 drivers to compare times. Quite a few F1 drivers have taken this test: including Button (1:44.7), Hamilton (1:44.7) and Webber (1:47.1 Very Wet). The Stig – Top Gear's 'tame racing driver' – managed 1:44.4 – but somehow Barrichello managed to beat them all. So I suppose we have to conclude that he's the best racing driver in the world, at least until Michael Schumacher does a proper lap.
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