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Brawn GP looks to draw inspiration from Rubens Barrichello’s victory heading into the Belgian Grand Prix, where rival Red Bull must rebound from its worst result of the season to stay in Formula One’s title race.
Barrichello’s first victory in five years at the European GP last weekend moved him into second place in the drivers’ standings – 18 points behind teammate Jenson Button, who opened up a 20.5-point lead over Red Bull’s Mark Webber.
But the cool conditions and hilly 4.35-mile Spa track – the longest on the calendar – features high-speed corners and long straights that have favored the Red Bulls this season …  Details
 From one extreme to another – from parched, sun-drenched Valencia on one Sunday, to mist-enshrouded Spa-Francorchamps the next. From a siesta in Spain to a fiesta of overtaking in Belgium. The Belgian GP is rarely dull and never processional and given the ability of the Ardennes forest to conjure up a rain shower out of a cloudless sky, there’s always drama lurking around the corner.
There’s also the thing that F1 fans appreciate the most – overtaking places. So although Brawn go to the race fearful of the speed of the Red Bull in the long sweeps up to Les Combes and down through Blanchimont, they know that if they get stuck behind a slower car, there will be places to overtake them … Details
The question has existed almost as long as motor racing. But it has rarely been asked as often as this year, with one of the biggest upsets of the natural order of teams and drivers in Formula One: What is more important, the car or the driver?
“The winner ain’t the one with the fastest car, it’s the one who refuses to lose,†Dale Earnhardt, a Nascar racing driver, once said.
That may be true sometimes, but in a series like Formula One where the quality and style of both the cars and the tracks vary enormously, the reality is much more complex … Details