Title: Barrichello gets done by the Thought Police?
Description: now you see it, now you don't...
Mrs Shrek - August 21, 2007 05:32 PM (GMT)
Last week, writing on his personal website, Honda driver Rubens Barrichello expressed his confidence for the remainder of the season, predicting that his team would make a noticeable step forward within the next month. The Brazilian also confirmed what many within the Paddock have been saying for some time.....when the veteran of 243 Grands Prix revealed that the main reason for the uncompetitiveness of the RA107 can be traced to the team's new windtunnel.snip
However, a revisit to his website now shows that all reference has been removed, as has the prediction that it will be a month before changes are seen. Maybe it was the 'Brackley Thought Police', maybe the various F1 websites that ran the Brazilian's comments imagined it, or maybe some nasty person hacked into Rubens' website. One cannot help but wonder if Rubens received the same sort of legal threat as Pitpass, after all, surely as an employee of the Honda F1 Racing Team the Brazilian, by making such comments on his website, has breached his team's confidentiality, whereas Pitpass has never have signed such an agreement, nor would any magazine, newspaper or website.
Either way, judging by the way Rubens' comments have been edited (cough) we can only assume that it wasn't the windtunnel, and that we shouldn't expect an improvement in the next month. Link