Barrichello gets pole for British GP
Rubens Barrichello of Ferrari will start tomorrow's British GP at Silverstone from pole position after topping qualifying.
Barrichello was second man on the circuit after yesterday’s troubled first session but saw all those who followed his Ferrari onto the track fail to beat his time as he claimed his first pole in eight races.
The Brazilian finished just over 0.1secs ahead of Renault’s Jarno Trulli with Raikkonen, who trails Barrichello’s team-mate Michael Schumacher by eighth points, third quickest.
Schumacher paid for sliding too wide at one corner as he could only manage the fifth quickest time, 0.6secs adrift, having been fractions ahead of Barrichello - whose last pole was in Brazil earlier this year – at the first sector time-check.
Germany’s Ralf Schumacher, winner of the past two races to move within 11 points of his brother, was unable to make it four poles in the last five attempts as he finished back in fourth place for Williams-BMW.
Team-mate Juan Pablo Montoya was over a second off the pace in seventh place as the Grove-based outfit’s fears that Silverstone would be a wake-up call after their recent triumphs seemed to be coming true.
Toyota’s Cristiano da Matta was a fine sixth fastest with Fernando Alonso eighth in the other Renault.
