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Barrichello: I never saw a red light!

Honda Formula 1 driver Rubens Barrichello has said he never saw a red light at the end of the pitlane. The Brazilian was disqualified from the Australian Grand Prix moments after the race was finished. Barrichello finished in sixth position and saw three valuable championship points slipping through his fingers.

After the race Rubens Barrichello said he had never saw a red light at the end of the pits. "I never saw a red light," Barrichello was quoted by our colleagues at Autosport.com. "I will never see it and I don't pretend to see it. They are in the wrong places and by the time you see it, it is too late. You have already gone past it.

"Because of the new ECU, you have different functions and different knobs that you have to change all through the pitstops, and I am still doing that when I get to the lights."

When asked if a marshall with a red flag should be placed at the end of the pitlane Barrichello replied: "At least. Or at least a big panel, like they had at Turn 3 to show yellow flags. You need something huge like that. My problem in the past 16 years of F1 is that the lights at the end of the pits, you don't see them. It has happened to Montoya, Massa and Kubica. Nobody will see it unless someone in the team is prepared to say there is a red light, or something else is done. It is unfortunate."

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