Rubens Barrichello has denied claims he recklessly endangered his F1 rivals after crashing out of Sunday’s Monaco grand prix.<\/p>\n
The Brazilian veteran threw his steering wheel onto the racing line after shunting due to a technical problem whilst climbing Beau Rivage at high speed.<\/p>\n
The impacts dented the Armco barriers on both sides of the Monaco layout, and in apparent frustration Barrichello, who turns 38 this Sunday, threw his $50,000 steering wheel onto the track.<\/p>\n
It was promptly run over by Karun Chandhok, who dragged the expensive debris all the way to the tunnel before it came loose and was run over again by Bruno Senna.<\/p>\n
It was a spring from Barrichello’s Brawn that last year struck the hapless Felipe Massa on the helmet.<\/p>\n
It is also a fundamental rule breach not to re-connect the steering wheel after abandoning a stricken car.<\/p>\n
“What was he doing?,” Chandhok said of Barrichello.\u00a0 “Charlie (Whiting) actually asked me about it.\u00a0 You see on the video that he just throws it.”<\/p>\n
But the Williams driver insists: “I threw the steering wheel because I wanted to get out of the car as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
“After the shunt I was facing the wrong side of the track and the car was on fire,” he argued.<\/p>\n
Williams co-owner Patrick Head also defended his driver.<\/p>\n
“If you are standing in the middle of a 120mph corner, you tend to think ‘let’s get out of here as quickly as you can’.”<\/p>\n
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