May 11 (GMM) The 'team orders' saga has hotted up even more, with Rubens
Barrichello threatening to quit Brawn GP if he is again the victim of team
orders.
After the Spanish grand prix, the Brazilian veteran played down any
comparison between the situation in Barcelona and his six years as Michael
Schumacher's number two at Ferrari.
But with Ross Brawn the common denominator, a frustrated Barrichello, 36,
clearly suspected that the switching of race-strategies penalised him while
favouring his championship-leading teammate, Jenson Button.
"If I get the slightest sniff that the team are favouring Jenson, I'll hang
up my helmet tomorrow," he declared to the American broadcaster Speed TV.
"I need to find out what happened. I'm sure everything is ok," he added.
Team bosses Nick Fry, and Brawn himself, denied that Button is being
favoured.
"Nope, no. Absolutely not," Brawn, who was involved in the infamous team
orders scandal involving Barrichello at Austria in 2002, said after Sunday's
race.
"I hope Rubens doesn't think that, because we are not (favouring Button).
"I think you saw at the first corner that there are no team orders," said the
Briton, referring to how Barrichello had been free to challenge Button for the
lead of the race.
