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Barrichello lighter than the rest

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Brawn GP prove the surprise of the fuel load charts, with 4th placed Rubens Barrichello turning out to be the lightest car in the field, even lighter than the pole sitter Giancarlo Fisichella in his Force India. Meanwhile, the Brits have gone heavy.

Though many expected Fisichella to be the lightest car on the grid by some distance, it is 4th placed Rubens Barrichello who will pit first on Sunday, dealing a crushing blow to Brawn GP's hopes that they had returned to the front of the field.

Nevertheless, Fisichella will still be in early on, while the Toyota of Jarno Trulli and the BMW of Nick Heidfeld, whish start just behind the Force India, will have two laps on the Italian at least.

Timo Glock will be disappointed with qualifying down in 7th place despite having the third-lightest car on the grid, while Robert Kubica qualified behind his less-illustrious team mate Heidfeld despite having the lighter car.

The Red Bull pair, meanwhile, both have heavy cars for the top ten, though quite not as much as they would have liked given their lowly qualifying positions. Nico Rosberg was easily the heavier of the top ten qualifiers, and will line up in tenth place.

Further back, both Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button have gone heavy for their attempts at comeback drivers, while Kazuki Nakajima wins this week's prize for the most ridiculous fuel load.

 Belgian GP Fuel
  
 DriverWeight Grid Pos
1
Rubens Barrichello644.5kg
4
2Giancarlo Fisichella
648.0kg
1
3Timo Glock
648.5kg7
4Robert Kubica
649.0kg5
5
Nick Heidfeld
655.0kg
3
6Kimi Raikkonen655.0kg6
7Jarno Trulli
656.5kg2
8Mark Webber
658.0kg
9
9Sebastan Vettel
662.5kg8
10
Nico Rosberg
670.0kg10
11
Adrian Sutil
678.5kg
11
12Fernando Alonso
684.4kg13
13
Sebastien Buemi
685.0kg
16
14Luca Badoer
691.5kg
20
15Lewis Hamilton
693.5kg
12
16Jenson Button
694.2kg14
17Heikki Kovalainen697.0kg15
18Jamie Alguersuari
704.5kg
17
19Romain Grosjean
704.7kg
19
20Kazuki Nakajima
706.1kg
18