2009 Australian Grand Prix

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Flag of Australia.svg 2009 Australian Grand Prix
Racing data
1st of 17 races in the 2009 Formula 1 World Championship
Route profile
Surname: LXXIV ING Australian Grand Prix
Date: March 29, 2009
Place: Melbourne
Course: Albert Park Circuit
Length: 307.574 km in 58 laps of 5.303 km

Weather: sunny
Spectator: ~ 90,000
Pole position
Driver: United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jenson Button United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brawn Mercedes
Time: 1: 26.202 min
Fastest lap
Driver: GermanyGermany Nico Rosberg United KingdomUnited Kingdom Williams-Toyota
Time: 1: 27.706 min (lap 48)
Podium
First: United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jenson Button United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brawn Mercedes
Second: BrazilBrazil Rubens Barrichello United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brawn Mercedes
Third: ItalyItaly Jarno Trulli JapanJapan Toyota

The 2009 Australian Grand Prix took place on March 29th at the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne and was the first race of the 2009 Formula 1 World Championship . The winner was Jenson Button ( Brawn - Mercedes ) ahead of Rubens Barrichello (Brawn-Mercedes) and Jarno Trulli ( Toyota ).

Reports

background

The start of the season was the latest since the Formula 1 World Championship in 1988 .

The start time has been moved from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm AEDT . This was done in order to be able to offer the European viewers better airtime (6 a.m. UTC ).

Jarno Trulli contested his 200th Grand Prix at the Australian Grand Prix.

With Giancarlo Fisichella , Fernando Alonso , Kimi Räikkönen and Lewis Hamilton (once each) four former winners competed for this Grand Prix.

At the Australian Grand Prix, Sébastien Buemi and Brawn GP , the successor to Honda , made their debut.

training

Williams driver Nico Rosberg secured the first best time of the year ahead of his teammates Kazuki Nakajima and Kimi Räikkönen . In the second practice session, Rosberg was again the fastest driver in the field. Rubens Barrichello and Trulli followed in second and third place . In the third free practice too, Rosberg drove the fastest lap and thus achieved the best time in every training section. This time Trulli and Jenson Button took the places behind him.

qualification

In the first qualifying phase, the cars of the new Brawn team dominated. Barrichello set the fastest time ahead of Jenson Button. The Force India and Toro Rosso pilots and Nelson Piquet junior were eliminated. In the second qualifying stage, the two Brawns, led by Barrichello, were again at the top of the field. The McLaren drivers, Nakajima , Alonso and Heidfeld did not make the leap into the third section. This was again dominated by the two Brawn drivers, of whom Button secured pole position in 1: 26.202 minutes ahead of Barrichello and Sebastian Vettel .

run

Jenson Button won the Brawn GP debut race

The Brawn drivers also continued this performance in the race and celebrated a double victory - however, Barrichello's second place was favored by the failure of Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) and Robert Kubica (BMW Sauber). Third place went to Jarno Trulli (Toyota); a 25-second time penalty imposed after the end of the race for overtaking during a safety car phase shortly before the end of the race, which was no longer canceled, was later withdrawn. World champion Lewis Hamilton , who started from 18th place and initially inherited third place, was subsequently disqualified for deliberate deception. Sébastian Buemi, the first Swiss Grand Prix starter in Formula 1 since 1995, finished seventh in his debut race and scored two championship points. Nico Rosberg drove the fastest race lap in 1: 27.706 minutes.

With Jenson Button another driver won for the seventh time in a row.

Sebastian Vettel had collided with Robert Kubica three laps before the end of the race in second position, which meant that both were eliminated from the race. The race stewards came to the conclusion that Vettel was the cause of the accident, and imposed on him a ten-place position back for the next Grand Prix. Red Bull was also fined US $ 50,000 for not instructing its driver to park its badly damaged car after the accident with Kubica, thereby endangering others.

Only for the second time in Formula 1 history (apart from the first Formula 1 GP held in 1950) did a new team win the premiere race. This was the case for the first time at the 1977 Argentine Grand Prix , when Jody Scheckter won as the driver of the then new Walter Wolf Racing team . In both cases, however, it should be noted that the teams were previously represented in Formula 1 in a different constellation. In the case of Wolf, a collaboration with Frank Williams Racing Cars in the 1976 season preceded it. Brawn GP emerged from the Honda factory team.

Registration list

team No. driver chassis engine tires
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 01 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren MP4-24 Mercedes-Benz 2.4 V8 B.
02 FinlandFinland Heikki Kovalainen
ItalyItaly Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro 03 BrazilBrazil Felipe Massa Ferrari F60 Ferrari 2.4 V8 B.
04th FinlandFinland Kimi Raikkonen
GermanyGermany BMW Sauber F1 Team 05 PolandPoland Robert Kubica BMW Sauber F1.09 BMW 2.4 V8 B.
06th GermanyGermany Nick Heidfeld
FranceFrance ING Renault F1 Team 07th SpainSpain Fernando Alonso Renault R29 Renault 2.4 V8 B.
08th BrazilBrazil Nelson Piquet Jr.
JapanJapan Panasonic Toyota Racing 09 ItalyItaly Jarno Trulli Toyota TF109 Toyota 2.4 V8 B.
10 GermanyGermany Timo Glock
ItalyItaly Scuderia Toro Rosso 11 FranceFrance Sébastien Bourdais Toro Rosso STR4 Ferrari 2.4 V8 B.
12 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Sébastien Buemi
AustriaAustria Red Bull Racing 14th AustraliaAustralia Mark Webber Red Bull RB5 Renault 2.4 V8 B.
15th GermanyGermany Sebastian Vettel
United KingdomUnited Kingdom AT&T Williams 16 GermanyGermany Nico Rosberg Williams FW31 Toyota 2.4 V8 B.
17th JapanJapan Kazuki Nakajima
IndiaIndia Force India F1 Team 20th GermanyGermany Adrian Sutil Force India VJM02 Mercedes-Benz 2.4 V8 B.
21st ItalyItaly Giancarlo Fisichella
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brawn GP Formula 1 team 22nd United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jenson Button Brawn BGP 001 Mercedes-Benz 2.4 V8 B.
23 BrazilBrazil Rubens Barrichello

Classifications

Qualifying

Item driver constructor Q1 Q2 Q3 begin Weight
in kg
01 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jenson Button United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brawn Mercedes 1: 25.211 1: 24.855 1: 26.202 01 664.5
02 BrazilBrazil Rubens Barrichello United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brawn Mercedes 1: 25.006 1: 24.783 1: 26.505 02 666.5
03 GermanyGermany Sebastian Vettel AustriaAustria Red Bull-Renault 1: 25.938 1: 25.121 1: 26.830 03 657.0
04th PolandPoland Robert Kubica GermanyGermany BMW clean 1: 25.922 1: 25,152 1: 26.914 04th 650.0
05 GermanyGermany Nico Rosberg United KingdomUnited Kingdom Williams-Toyota 1: 25.846 1: 25.123 1: 26.973 05 657.0
06th GermanyGermany Timo Glock 1 JapanJapan Toyota 1: 25.499 1: 25.281 1: 26.975 19th 670.0
07th BrazilBrazil Felipe Massa ItalyItaly Ferrari (K) 1: 25.844 1: 25.319 1: 27.033 06th 654.0
08th ItalyItaly Jarno Trulli 1st JapanJapan Toyota 1: 26.194 1: 25.265 1: 27.127 20th 660.0
09 FinlandFinland Kimi Raikkonen ItalyItaly Ferrari (K) 1: 25.899 1: 25.380 1: 27.163 07th 655.5
10 AustraliaAustralia Mark Webber AustriaAustria Red Bull-Renault 1: 25.427 1: 25.241 1: 27.246 08th 662.0
11 GermanyGermany Nick Heidfeld GermanyGermany BMW Clean (K) 1: 25.827 1: 25.504 - 09 691.5
12 SpainSpain Fernando Alonso FranceFrance Renault (K) 1: 26.026 1: 25.605 - 10 680.7
13 JapanJapan Kazuki Nakajima United KingdomUnited Kingdom Williams-Toyota 1: 26.074 1: 25.607 - 11 685.3
14th FinlandFinland Heikki Kovalainen United KingdomUnited Kingdom McLaren-Mercedes (K) 1: 26.184 1: 25.726 - 12 690.6
15th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lewis Hamilton 2 United KingdomUnited Kingdom McLaren-Mercedes (K) 1: 26.454 no time - 18th 655.0
16 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Sébastien Buemi ItalyItaly Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1: 26.503 - - 13 675.5
17th BrazilBrazil Nelson Piquet Jr. FranceFrance Renault (K) 1: 26.598 - - 14th 694.1
18th ItalyItaly Giancarlo Fisichella IndiaIndia Force India-Mercedes 1: 26.677 - - 15th 689.0
19th GermanyGermany Adrian Sutil IndiaIndia Force India-Mercedes 1: 26.742 - - 16 684.5
20th FranceFrance Sébastien Bourdais ItalyItaly Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1: 26.964 - - 17th 662.5

(K) = racing car with KERS

1 Since the rear wings of the Toyota pilots Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli were classified as illegal, they were transferred to the end of the starting grid. However, Toyota decided to start from the pit lane .

2 Lewis Hamilton was dropped five grid positions from 15 to 20 due to a gearbox change. However, he moved up to 18th place due to the Toyotas' penalty transfer.

run

Item driver constructor Round Stops time begin Weight
in kg
Fastest lap
01 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jenson Button United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brawn Mercedes 58 2 1: 34: 15.784 01 664.5 1: 28.020 (17.)
02 BrazilBrazil Rubens Barrichello United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brawn Mercedes 58 2 + 0.807 02 666.5 1: 29.066 (43.)
03 ItalyItaly Jarno Trulli JapanJapan Toyota 58 2 + 1.604 box 660.0 1: 28.916 (50th)
04th GermanyGermany Timo Glock JapanJapan Toyota 58 2 + 4.435 box 670.0 1: 28,416 (53.)
05 SpainSpain Fernando Alonso FranceFrance Renault (K) 58 2 + 4.879 10 680.7 1: 28.712 (53rd)
06th GermanyGermany Nico Rosberg United KingdomUnited Kingdom Williams-Toyota 58 2 + 5.722 05 657.0 1: 27,706 (48th)
07th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Sébastien Buemi ItalyItaly Toro Rosso-Ferrari 58 2 + 6.004 13 675.5 1: 29.230 (34.)
08th FranceFrance Sébastien Bourdais ItalyItaly Toro Rosso-Ferrari 58 2 + 6.298 17th 662.5 1: 29.823 (50.)
09 GermanyGermany Adrian Sutil IndiaIndia Force India-Mercedes 58 3 + 6.335 16 684.5 1: 28.943 (43rd)
10 GermanyGermany Nick Heidfeld GermanyGermany BMW Clean (K) 58 3 + 7.085 09 691.5 1: 28.283 (48th)
11 ItalyItaly Giancarlo Fisichella IndiaIndia Force India-Mercedes 58 2 + 7.374 15th 689.0 1: 29.005 (51st)
12 AustraliaAustralia Mark Webber AustriaAustria Red Bull-Renault 57 2 + 1 lap 08th 662.0 1: 28,508 (38th)
13 GermanyGermany Sebastian Vettel AustriaAustria Red Bull-Renault 56 2 DNF 03 657.0 1: 28,140 ( 08.)
14th PolandPoland Robert Kubica GermanyGermany BMW clean 55 2 DNF 04th 650.0 1: 27.988 (36th)
15th FinlandFinland Kimi Raikkonen ItalyItaly Ferrari (K) 55 4th DNF 07th 655.5 1: 28,488 (35th)
- BrazilBrazil Felipe Massa ItalyItaly Ferrari (K) 45 2 DNF 06th 654.0 1: 29.141 (30.)
- BrazilBrazil Nelson Piquet Jr. FranceFrance Renault (K) 24 1 DNF 14th 694.1 1: 30.502 (17.)
- JapanJapan Kazuki Nakajima United KingdomUnited Kingdom Williams-Toyota 17th 0 DNF 11 685.3 1: 29.923 ( 06.)
- FinlandFinland Heikki Kovalainen United KingdomUnited Kingdom McLaren-Mercedes (K) 00 0 DNF 12 690.6 -
- United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lewis Hamilton United KingdomUnited Kingdom McLaren-Mercedes (K) 58 2 DSQ 18th 655.0 1: 29.020 (39.)

(K) = racing car with KERS

World Cup stands after the race

The first eight of the race got 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points
01 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jenson Button Brawn Mercedes 10
02 BrazilBrazil Rubens Barrichello Brawn Mercedes 8th
03 ItalyItaly Jarno Trulli Toyota 6th
04th GermanyGermany Timo Glock Toyota 5
05 SpainSpain Fernando Alonso Renault 4th
06th GermanyGermany Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 3
07th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Sébastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 2
08th FranceFrance Sébastien Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1
09 GermanyGermany Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 0
10 GermanyGermany Nick Heidfeld BMW clean 0
Item driver constructor Points
11 ItalyItaly Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Mercedes 0
12 AustraliaAustralia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 0
13 GermanyGermany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 0
14th PolandPoland Robert Kubica BMW clean 0
15th FinlandFinland Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 0
- BrazilBrazil Felipe Massa Ferrari 0
- BrazilBrazil Nelson Piquet Jr. Renault 0
- JapanJapan Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 0
- FinlandFinland Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 0
- United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points
01 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brawn Mercedes 18th
02 JapanJapan Toyota 11
03 FranceFrance Renault 4th
04th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Williams-Toyota 3
05 ItalyItaly Toro Rosso-Ferrari 3
Item constructor Points
06th IndiaIndia Force India-Mercedes 0
07th GermanyGermany BMW clean 0
08th AustriaAustria Red Bull-Renault 0
09 ItalyItaly Ferrari 0
- United KingdomUnited Kingdom McLaren-Mercedes 0

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The next scandal: Hamilton disqualified!" (Motorsport-Total.com on April 2, 2009)
  2. ^ "Vettel self-critical: 'I'm an idiot'" (Motorsport-Total.com on March 29, 2009)
  3. "Toyota starts out of the pit lane" (Motorsport-Total.com on March 29, 2009)
  4. "Hamilton has to start last" (Motorsport-Total.com on March 28, 2009)

Web links

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