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Gear & Equipment Ben Ainslie was trackside for the European Grand Prix in Valencia
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Ben Ainslie was trackside for the European Grand Prix in Valencia over the weekend. Ben Ainsley and BBC's Jake Humphrey at Valencia for the GP. He was a guest of his official clothing sponsor Henri Lloyd who is also the Official Supplier of Clothing and Footwear Technology to the Brawn GP Formula One Team.Ben spent the weekend looking behind the scenes of a top Formula One organisation and was present to congratulate Rubens Barrichello who won the 2009 European Grand Prix on Sunday, scoring his tenth victory in Formula One and Brawn GP’s seventh victory of the 2009 season.  Over the course of the weekend, Ben took part in a strategy discussion, various media commitments including a live interview with the BBC’s Jake Humphrey, David Coulthard and Eddie Jordan and joined Rubens, Jenson Button and Ross Brawn in the team’s engineering debrief following the race on Sunday. Valencia is a familiar city to Ben as he lived there for a number of years during the 32nd America’s Cup and he thoroughly enjoyed soaking up the atmosphere of a Formula One weekend. “It was great to be back in Valencia and to see the America’s Cup facilities being used for Formula One. Sailing and inparticular the America’s Cup and Formula One Racing have so much in common and it was such an exciting weekend and great to be part of the Brawn GP team for their well deserved victory” Ben Ainslie  Ben waits in vain for the sailing to start British Driver Jenson came home in seventh place adding a valuable two points to his lead in the Drivers' Championship. After eleven races, Brawn GP lead the Constructors' Championship with 126 points with Jenson leading the Drivers' Championship with 72 points and Rubens in second place with 54 points. Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites.           |
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