After finishing second in Sunday's Australian Grand Prix and claiming eight points to team mate Michael Schumacher's ten, Rubens Barrichello admitted that the 2004 season would be his best chance yet to win a drivers' championship.
"We have to wait and see, but this is definitely my best shot," Barrichello said. "I have been driving quite a while. I think I've improved a step every year and you have to learn from your mistakes and so on, so I had a very good race with Michael until the time my brakes started to go."
"When you have equal cars, eventually it is even more difficult to overtake so it would have been… probably I had a 10 per cent of chance of overtaking Michael, but I had to push him very hard and see if he would make a mistake or something, which he did not do when I was close," Barrichello revealed. "I'm feeling very confident and I think it showed that Michael was on the top of the whole weekend. But I didn't let it get me down because in qualifying I was up there and if it wasn't for just a little bit, I could have done pole position. So we are going to have nice fights throughout the year."Michael Schumacher again confirmed that Barrichello is the driver he is most concerned about in his quest for a seventh world championship.
"If you look at previous years, how Rubens has developed, it's going to be a very tough competition," Schumacher claimed. "You saw qualifying that it's by almost nothing and you saw in the race we were really together until he faced his problems, so it's whoever can make his car work a little bit better than the other, (then) he might be up front."
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