2009 Malaysian Grand Prix

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Flag of Malaysia.svg 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix
Racing data
2nd of 17 races in the 2009 Formula 1 World Championship
Route profile
Surname: XI Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix
Date: April 5, 2009
Place: Sepang
Course: Sepang International Circuit
Length: 171.833 km in 31 laps of 5.543 km

Planned: 310.408 km in 56 laps of 5.543 km
Weather: dry start, later heavy rain
Spectator: ~ 50,000
Pole position
Driver: United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jenson Button United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brawn Mercedes
Time: 1: 35.181 min
Fastest lap
Driver: United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jenson Button United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brawn Mercedes
Time: 1: 36.641 min (lap 18)
Podium
First: United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jenson Button United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brawn Mercedes
Second: GermanyGermany Nick Heidfeld GermanyGermany BMW clean
Third: GermanyGermany Timo Glock JapanJapan Toyota

The 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix took place on April 5th at the Sepang International Circuit in Sepang and was the second race of the 2009 Formula 1 World Championship . Jenson Button ( Brawn - Mercedes ) was the winner, ahead of Nick Heidfeld ( BMW Sauber ) and Timo Glock ( Toyota ). Due to torrential rain, the race had to be stopped after 32 laps.

Reports

background

After the Australian Grand Prix , Jenson Button led the drivers' standings with 2 points ahead of Rubens Barrichello and 4 points ahead of Jarno Trulli. Brawn-Mercedes led the constructors' championship with 7 points ahead of Toyota and 14 points ahead of Renault.

The start time has been moved from 3pm to 5pm MYT . This was done in order to be able to offer the European viewers better airtime (9 a.m. UTC ).

With Fernando Alonso , Kimi Räikkönen (twice each) and Giancarlo Fisichella (once), three former winners competed in this Grand Prix.

training

In the first free practice session, Nico Rosberg achieved the fastest lap time. His Williams teammate Kazuki Nakajima took second place, Jenson Button came third. In the second free practice session, Rosberg did not set the fastest lap time for the first time. Ferrari driver Kimi Räikkönen achieved the best time ahead of his teammates Felipe Massa and Sebastian Vettel . In the third free practice, Rosberg was again the fastest driver ahead of Mark Webber and Felipe Massa.

Qualifying

Rubens Barrichello posted the best time in the first qualifying period. The Force India pilots, Buemi , Piquet and Massa were eliminated. The runner-up world champion and his team made a serious mistake: Since they were sure that the time they had achieved would be enough to advance, they decided against another attempt to save laps. When the times got better and better towards the end of the section, it was no longer possible to intervene and Massa was eliminated.

In the second segment, Button, the leader of the drivers' standings, set the fastest time. The McLaren drivers, Bourdais , Nakajima and Heidfeld do not make the leap into the last qualifying section. The pole position finally conquered Button, who had prevailed against Trulli and Vettel.

run

The race started with the lead-in lap in dry conditions. The forecast for the onset of rain ranged from 5:15 p.m. to 5:40 p.m. MYT.

Jenson Button on pole position

Jenson Button ( Brawn - Mercedes ) started the race from pole position. The winner of the start was Nico Rosberg in the Williams Toyota, who took the lead from fourth. Even Fernando Alonso ( Renault ) could work their way to three using KERS of Nine, the two Brawn-Mercedes had by Button and Barrichello but over soon leave again because he kg with about 15 more fuel went. Timo Glock in the Toyota dropped from three to eight at the start, Robert Kubica ( BMW Sauber ) only rolled off very slowly and had to park his car one lap later with an engine failure. Heikki Kovalainen (McLaren-Mercedes) flew off the track on the first lap and was unable to continue.

Before the first pit stops, Rosberg was in front of Trulli (Toyota), Button and Barrichello. After Rosberg pitted on lap 15 and Trulli on lap 17, Button was able to drive the fastest race lap on the open track (1: 36.641 min on lap 18) and thus defend first place after his pit stop.

Kimi Raikkonen during his first pit stop

Kimi Räikkönen (Ferrari), previously fifth, was fitted with rain tires during his pit stop, with which he lost a lot of time on the still dry track and which were completely ruined after a few laps (radio message to the pits: “My tires are completely destroyed. ”), So that it fell back to 14th place.

When it started to rain slightly on lap 23, the drivers had to go back to the pits to change their tires. Nick Heidfeld in the BMW Sauber and Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren-Mercedes, who had more gasoline on board and then switched to rain tires at their first stop, benefited from this . Barrichello was able to drive past Trulli and Rosberg in the rain and completed the temporary double lead for Brawn GP. The main winner of the rain, however, was Glock, who was the only one to opt for intermediates instead of rain tires and thus overtook everyone in the light rain from outside the top ten and pushed Barrichello back from second place. When the other drivers switched from wet tires to intermediates, he briefly took the lead, but was soon overtaken by Button again. Now it started to rain heavily and the drivers had to switch back to rain tires; Glock fell behind Heidfeld, who had not switched to intermediates and was still in the pits - in contrast to Button and Glock (three stops each) and most of the other drivers.

Afterwards, Glock was able to regain second place, but the conditions became more and more extreme, so that the race management dispatched the safety car after several flights. Since the racing cars continued to slide off the track despite the reduced speed, the race was interrupted only a little later with the red flag .

Jarno Trulli, Rubens Barrichello, Lewis Hamilton and Mark Webber on the start-finish straight after the race was interrupted

The teams gathered behind the red flag line on the start-finish straight , tried to protect the cars and drivers from the rain and waited for the race management's decision. After the rain subsided a little and several teams already started the engines, they decided at 6:52 p.m. MYT not to start the race due to the impending darkness. The score was counted in lap 31, Button won ahead of Heidfeld and Glock, who only learned of the reverse order on the way to the award ceremony from race director Charlie Whiting .

As at this point in time less than 75 percent of the planned race distance had been completed, the drivers placed in the points received only half the number of points. This happened for the fifth time in the history of Formula 1, the last time it happened at the 1991 Australian Grand Prix .

After the race

The teams were already skeptical about the late start time in advance. If the drivers in Melbourne complained about the low sun, the late start of the race in Sepang may have prevented the restart. While Bernie Ecclestone defended the late start, the route operators were considering an earlier start again next year. "At what time we will start next year, we do not know yet, but we will check the start time for next year's race," said Chairman of the Sepang International Circuit , Datuk Mokhzani Mahathir. Finally, the start of the race in 2010 was scheduled an hour earlier.

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: 35.058 1: 33.784 1: 35.181 01 666.0
02 ItalyItaly Jarno Trulli JapanJapan Toyota 1: 34.745 1: 33.990 1: 35.273 02 656.5
03 GermanyGermany Sebastian Vettel 1 AustriaAustria Red Bull-Renault 1: 34.935 1: 34.276 1: 35.518 13 647.0
04th BrazilBrazil Rubens Barrichello 2 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brawn Mercedes 1: 34.681 1: 34.387 1: 35.651 08th 664.5
05 GermanyGermany Timo Glock JapanJapan Toyota 1: 34.907 1: 34.258 1: 35.690 03 656.5
06th GermanyGermany Nico Rosberg United KingdomUnited Kingdom Williams-Toyota 1: 35.083 1: 34.547 1: 35.750 04th 656.0
07th AustraliaAustralia Mark Webber AustriaAustria Red Bull-Renault 1: 35.027 1: 34.222 1: 35.797 05 656.0
08th PolandPoland Robert Kubica GermanyGermany BMW clean 1: 35.166 1: 34.562 1: 36.106 06th 663.0
09 FinlandFinland Kimi Raikkonen ItalyItaly Ferrari (K) 1: 35.476 1: 34.456 1: 36.170 07th 662.5
10 SpainSpain Fernando Alonso FranceFrance Renault (K) 1: 35.260 1: 34.706 1: 37.659 09 680.5
11 GermanyGermany Nick Heidfeld GermanyGermany BMW Clean (K) 1: 35.110 1: 34.769 - 10 692.0
12 JapanJapan Kazuki Nakajima United KingdomUnited Kingdom Williams-Toyota 1: 35.341 1: 34.788 - 11 683.4
13 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lewis Hamilton United KingdomUnited Kingdom McLaren-Mercedes (K) 1: 35.280 1: 34.905 - 12 688.0
14th FinlandFinland Heikki Kovalainen United KingdomUnited Kingdom McLaren-Mercedes (K) 1: 35.023 1: 34.924 - 14th 688.9
15th FranceFrance Sébastien Bourdais ItalyItaly Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1: 35.507 1: 35.431 - 15th 670.5
16 BrazilBrazil Felipe Massa ItalyItaly Ferrari (K) 1: 35.642 - - 16 689.5
17th BrazilBrazil Nelson Piquet Jr. FranceFrance Renault (K) 1: 35.708 - - 17th 681.9
18th ItalyItaly Giancarlo Fisichella IndiaIndia Force India-Mercedes 1: 35.908 - - 18th 680.5
19th GermanyGermany Adrian Sutil IndiaIndia Force India-Mercedes 1: 35.951 - - 19th 655.5
20th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Sébastien Buemi ItalyItaly Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1: 36.107 - - 20th 686.5

(K) = racing car with KERS

1 Sebastian Vettel was postponed ten starting positions after a self-inflicted collision with Robert Kubica towards the end of the Australian Grand Prix .

2 Rubens Barrichello was dropped five grid positions from 4 to 9 because of a gearbox change. However, he moved up to 8th place due to the penalty transfer of Sebastian Vettel.

run

Item driver constructor Round Stops time begin Weight
in kg
Fastest lap
01 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jenson Button United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brawn Mercedes 31 3 0: 55: 30.622 1 666.0 1: 36.641 (18.)
02 GermanyGermany Nick Heidfeld GermanyGermany BMW Clean (K) 31 1 + 22.722 10 692.0 1: 39.084 (17.)
03 GermanyGermany Timo Glock JapanJapan Toyota 31 3 + 23.513 3 656.5 1: 39.406 (18.)
04th ItalyItaly Jarno Trulli JapanJapan Toyota 31 3 + 46.173 2 656.5 1: 37.591 (12.)
05 BrazilBrazil Rubens Barrichello United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brawn Mercedes 31 3 + 47.360 8th 664.5 1: 37.484 (17.)
06th AustraliaAustralia Mark Webber AustriaAustria Red Bull-Renault 31 4th + 52.333 5 656.0 1: 37.672 (14th)
07th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lewis Hamilton United KingdomUnited Kingdom McLaren-Mercedes (K) 31 3 +1: 00.733 12 688.0 1: 39.141 (17.)
08th GermanyGermany Nico Rosberg United KingdomUnited Kingdom Williams-Toyota 31 4th +1: 11.576 4th 656.0 1: 37.598 (13.)
09 BrazilBrazil Felipe Massa ItalyItaly Ferrari (K) 31 3 +1: 16.932 16 689.5 1: 39.250 (17.)
10 FranceFrance Sébastien Bourdais ItalyItaly Toro Rosso-Ferrari 31 3 +1: 42.164 15th 670.5 1: 39.242 (17.)
11 SpainSpain Fernando Alonso FranceFrance Renault (K) 31 3 +1: 49.422 9 680.5 1: 39.006 (17.)
12 JapanJapan Kazuki Nakajima United KingdomUnited Kingdom Williams-Toyota 31 3 +1: 56.130 11 683.4 1: 39.387 (17.)
13 BrazilBrazil Nelson Piquet Jr. FranceFrance Renault (K) 31 3 +1: 56.713 17th 681.9 1: 39.268 (18.)
14th FinlandFinland Kimi Raikkonen ItalyItaly Ferrari (K) 31 3 + 2: 22.841 7th 662.5 1: 38.453 (17.)
15th GermanyGermany Sebastian Vettel AustriaAustria Red Bull-Renault 30th 3 + 1 lap 13 647.0 1: 38.427 (10.)
16 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Sébastien Buemi ItalyItaly Toro Rosso-Ferrari 30th 2 + 1 lap 20th 686.5 1: 38.938 (16.)
17th GermanyGermany Adrian Sutil IndiaIndia Force India-Mercedes 30th 2 + 1 lap 19th 655.5 1: 39.464 (17.)
18th ItalyItaly Giancarlo Fisichella IndiaIndia Force India-Mercedes 29 1 + 2 rounds 18th 680.5 1: 39.407 (16.)
- PolandPoland Robert Kubica GermanyGermany BMW clean 01 0 DNF 6th 663.0 -
- FinlandFinland Heikki Kovalainen United KingdomUnited Kingdom McLaren-Mercedes (K) 00 0 DNF 14th 688.9 -

(K) = racing car with KERS

World Cup stands after the race

The first eight of the race would have received 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively. However, since the race was canceled after less than 75 percent of the total distance, the points were halved.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points
01 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jenson Button Brawn Mercedes 15th, 0
02 BrazilBrazil Rubens Barrichello Brawn Mercedes 10, 0
03 ItalyItaly Jarno Trulli Toyota 8.5
04th GermanyGermany Timo Glock Toyota 8th, 0
05 GermanyGermany Nick Heidfeld BMW clean 4th, 0
06th SpainSpain Fernando Alonso Renault 4th, 0
07th GermanyGermany Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 3.5
08th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Sébastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 2, 0
09 AustraliaAustralia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1.5
10 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1, 0
Item driver constructor Points
11 FranceFrance Sébastien Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1, 0
12 GermanyGermany Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 0, 0
13 BrazilBrazil Felipe Massa Ferrari 0, 0
14th ItalyItaly Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Mercedes 0, 0
15th JapanJapan Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 0, 0
16 GermanyGermany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 0, 0
17th BrazilBrazil Nelson Piquet Jr. Renault 0, 0
18th FinlandFinland Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 0, 0
19th PolandPoland Robert Kubica BMW clean 0, 0
- FinlandFinland Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 0, 0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points
01 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brawn Mercedes 25th, 0
02 JapanJapan Toyota 16.5
03 GermanyGermany BMW clean 4th, 0
04th FranceFrance Renault 4th, 0
05 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Williams-Toyota 3.5
Item constructor Points
06th ItalyItaly Toro Rosso-Ferrari 3, 0
07th AustriaAustria Red Bull-Renault 1.5
08th United KingdomUnited Kingdom McLaren-Mercedes 1, 0
09 IndiaIndia Force India-Mercedes 0, 0
10 ItalyItaly Ferrari 0, 0

Individual evidence

  1. "Through the monsoon: Button demolition winner in Malaysia!" (Motorsport-Total.com on April 5, 2009)
  2. "Chronology" (Motorsport-Total.com)
  3. "For the fourth time half points because of rain" (Motorsport-Total.com on April 6, 2009)
  4. "Late start time: concerns of the teams ignored" (Motorsport-Total.com on April 5, 2009)
  5. "Ecclestone: 'At 2 p.m. it would have rained too ...'" (Motorsport-Total.com on April 6, 2009)
  6. ^ "Three penalties in Melbourne" (Motorsport-Magazin.com on March 29, 2009)
  7. ^ "Gearbox change: Barrichello has to go back five places" (Motorsport-Total.com on April 3, 2009)

Web links

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