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Barrichello grew up in the Interlagos neighbourhood of Sao Paulo and was soon racing karts. He won five national titles in his teens and in 1989 tried his hand at Formula Ford. He then took the decision to go to Europe to compete in the GM Lotus Euroserie
The next step was British Formula 3 and he was snapped up by Dick Bennetts's hugely-successful West Surrey Racing for 1991. His chief opposition came from David Coulthard but Barrichello held off the challenge to win the title at his first attempt. Formul
Barrichello scored his first World Championship point at Suzuka where he finished fifth, just ahead of his new team mate Eddie Irvine.
The 1994 season proved to a nightmare for Barrichello after two goods results in Brazil and at the Pacific GP he had a huge accident in practice for the San Marino GP at Imola. Two days later Ayrton Senna, his friend and mentor, was killed. It took Barric
The relationship with Jordan ground to a halt and Barrichello headed for the new Stewart-Ford team. He settled in quickly, taking second place behind Michael Schumacher in the rain at Monaco in what was the team's fifth race. he stayed at Stewart for thre
He then received the call to go to Ferrari as Michael Schumacher's team mate. It was a tough job but Barrichello was strong enough to cope and in July 2000 he took his first win in a weird German GP which was interrupted by a protester who wandered out on
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