2009 Monaco Grand Prix

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2009 Monaco Grand Prix
Race 6 of 17 in the 2009 Formula One World Championship
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Circuit de Monaco
Circuit de Monaco
Race details[1]
Date 24 May 2009
Official name Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2009
Location Circuit de Monaco
Course Street circuit
Course length 3.34 km (2.08 miles)
Distance 78 laps, 260.52 km (162.24 miles)
Weather Sunny
Pole position
Driver
Mercedes
Time 1:14.902
Fastest lap
Driver Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari
Time 1:15.154 on lap 50
Podium
First
Mercedes
Second
Mercedes
Third
Ferrari
Lap leaders

The 2009 Monaco Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2009)

2009 Formula One season. It was won by Brawn GP driver Jenson Button, with his teammate Rubens Barrichello second, and Ferrari's Kimi Räikkönen third.[3]

This year a peace and sport initiative was introduced on this Grand Prix under the High Patronage of Albert II, Prince of Monaco.[4] Sébastien Bourdais scored his last world championship points at this race.

Report

Background

The first five races of the championship ended with Brawn driver Jenson Button leading the Drivers Championship by 14 points from teammate Rubens Barrichello, having claimed 41 points out of a possible 45. Their Brawn GP team was leading the Constructors Championship with 68 points; second-placed Red Bull had 38.5, with their driver Sebastian Vettel third place in the drivers championship. Reigning World Champion Lewis Hamilton of McLaren was only in seventh place, having accumulated nine points.[5]

Red Bull had a new two-tier diffuser ready for their

BMW Sauber, had modified cars to give good downforce and high mechanical grip; important for the Monaco circuit's low speed and twisting, slow corners.[7]

In the run up to the race,

Renault Formula One team made a similar statement, announcing "If the decisions announced by the World Council on the 29th of April 2009 are not revised, we have no choice but to withdraw from the FIA Formula One World Championship at the end of 2009."[10] These statements were the start of the FIA–FOTA dispute over the 2010 regulations. During the event, scenes for the 2010 film Iron Man 2 were shot, which features a historic Monaco Grand Prix race.[11] Prior to the race the drivers complained about a billboard for Martini featuring model Jessiqa Pace was distracting and in the line of sight of drivers as they exit Loews hairpin.[12]

Practice and qualifying

Jenson Button took pole position and won the race, extending his championship lead.

The early practice sessions at Monaco are traditionally run on the Thursday of the week so that the roads can be opened on the Friday for public access. As such, two practice sessions were held on the Thursday, with the third on Saturday morning, followed shortly by qualifying.

The Thursday practice sessions began with Brawn GP establishing its dominance once again; Rubens Barrichello was fastest by three-tenths of a second from countryman

Renault
.

The first qualifying session was marked by

BMW Saubers of Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica and the Toyotas of Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock. The second session saw the departure of the two Force Indias, both Toro Rossos and Nelson Piquet Jr.'s Renault while Finland's Kimi Räikkönen and Heikki Kovalainen topped the timing sheets. Giancarlo Fisichella
had two times disallowed for cutting the corners at the Swimming Pool Complex and Nouvelle Chicane. The third and final session was dominated by Rubens Barrichello and Sebastian Vettel until a late lap from Jenson Button saw the championship leader take his fourth pole from six starts this season with Kimi Räikkönen the highest-placed KERS-equipped car in second place.

Race

Kimi Räikkönen took Ferrari's first podium finish of 2009.

At the start, Button maintained his lead as Barrichello passed Räikkönen on the approach to the first corner. Both Brawn cars and Sebastian Vettel started the race on the super-soft tyres;[13] the Ferraris and Williams started on the soft compound. This provided an advantage, as the super-soft tyres – which had proven to be the better of the two all weekend – started to lose grip drastically after twelve laps as championship contender Sebastian Vettel proved when he started losing up to four seconds per lap on leader Button, because of the difficulty in overtaking at Monaco, this greatly helped the Brawn GP drivers and Kimi Räikkönen (the only three drivers ahead of Vettel when his tyres started to lose grip), because for several minutes all cars behind him found themselves unable to overtake, opening a huge gap between third and fourth, even for several laps after Vettel had been overtaken.

Sébastien Buemi had an accident running into Nelson Piquet Jr. on lap 10 during a passing attempt at Sainte Devote,[14] while Vettel slid into the barriers under brakes at the same spot several laps later. Button maintained a fifteen-second lead over teammate Barrichello for most of the race, who had a smaller gap over the Ferraris of Kimi Räikkönen and Felipe Massa; Massa raised the ire of the stewards after crossing the chicane at the Swimming Pool Complex twice, though no penalty was awarded as both occasions were due to driver error.

In the late stages of the race, Heikki Kovalainen crashed out at the Swimming Pool, spinning and colliding with the barriers. Kazuki Nakajima also crashed out on the last lap of the race at Mirabeau. Robert Kubica was the only other retirement, his race ending with brake problems. In the final phase of the race, the Ferraris pitted for the super-soft tyres, discovering the same graining problem as everyone else over longer stints. The distance between Button and Barrichello halved over the final few laps, though Button was deliberately slowing to avoid encountering backmarkers who were fighting for position. He won by seven-and-a-half seconds from Barrichello, with the Ferraris of Räikkönen and Massa third and fourth.

After the end of the race, Button mistakenly parked his car in parc fermé in the pit lane as is normal for other Grands Prix, rather than on the main straight with the other two podium finishers as is the norm for Monaco. As a result, he had to run down the start/finish straight to the podium.

With his win, Button scored the third-best start to a season in Formula One history, with five victories and one third place. Only

Mercedes marked the first time in modern F1 history that a single engine has won three races in a row[15] – engines in the 1950s lasted most of a season, sometimes more than one season. It was also the first time since 2006 that a driver had won three races in succession. Michael Schumacher was the last to do so, as he won the United States, French and German
Grands Prix.

Classification

Cars that used

KERS
are marked with "‡"

Qualifying

Toyota team endured one of the worst weekends of its time in Formula One. Jarno Trulli (pictured) and Timo Glock
set the two slowest qualifying times.
Lewis Hamilton crashed his car in the first part of qualifying, restricting himself to nineteenth position on the grid after a penalty.
Pos No Driver Constructor Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Grid
1 22 United Kingdom Jenson Button
Mercedes
 1:15.210 1:15.016 1:14.902 1
2 4‡ Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:15.746 1:14.514 1:14.927 2
3 23 Brazil Rubens Barrichello
Mercedes
 1:15.425 1:14.829 1:15.077 3
4 15 Germany Sebastian Vettel
Renault
 1:15.915 1:14.879 1:15.271 4
5 3‡ Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:15.340 1:15.001 1:15.437 5
6 16 Germany Nico Rosberg
Toyota
 1:15.094 1:14.846 1:15.455 6
7 2‡ Finland Heikki Kovalainen
Mercedes
 1:15.495 1:14.809 1:15.516 7
8 14 Australia Mark Webber
Renault
 1:15.260 1:14.825 1:15.653 8
9 7 Spain Fernando Alonso
Renault
 1:15.898 1:15.200 1:16.009 9
10 17 Japan Kazuki Nakajima
Toyota
 1:15.930 1:15.579 1:17.344 10
11 12 Switzerland Sébastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:15.834 1:15.833 11
12 8 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr.
Renault
 1:16.013 1:15.837 12
13 21 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella
Mercedes
 1:16.063 1:16.146 13
14 11 France Sébastien Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:16.120 1:16.281 14
15 20 Germany Adrian Sutil
Mercedes
 1:16.248 1:16.545 15
16 1‡ United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes
 1:16.264 19[1]
17 6 Germany Nick Heidfeld
BMW Sauber
 1:16.264 16
18 5 Poland Robert Kubica
BMW Sauber
 1:16.405 17
19 9 Italy Jarno Trulli
Toyota
 1:16.584 18
20 10 Germany Timo Glock
Toyota
 1:16.788 20[2]
Source:[16]
  • ^1 Lewis Hamilton was given a five place grid penalty for an unscheduled gearbox change following the qualifying session, as per the sporting regulations.[17]
  • ^2 Timo Glock had to start from the pit lane following modifications in the car between the qualifying and the race.[18]

Race

Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 22 United Kingdom Jenson Button
Mercedes
 		78 1:40:44.282 1 10
2 23 Brazil Rubens Barrichello
Mercedes
 		78 +7.666 3 8
3 4 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 78 +13.442 2 6
4 3 Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari 78 +15.110 5 5
5 14 Australia Mark Webber
Renault
 		78 +15.730 8 4
6 16 Germany Nico Rosberg
Toyota
 		78 +33.586 6 3
7 7 Spain Fernando Alonso
Renault
 		78 +37.839 9 2
8 11 France Sébastien Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 78 +1:03.142 14 1
9 21 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella
Mercedes
 78 +1:05.040 13
10 10 Germany Timo Glock
Toyota
 77 +1 lap 20
11 6 Germany Nick Heidfeld
BMW Sauber
 77 +1 lap 16
12 1 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes
 77 +1 lap 19
13 9 Italy Jarno Trulli
Toyota
 77 +1 lap 18
14 20 Germany Adrian Sutil
Mercedes
 77 +1 lap 15
15 17 Japan Kazuki Nakajima
Toyota
 76 Accident 10
Ret 2 Finland Heikki Kovalainen
Mercedes
 51 Accident 7
Ret 5 Poland Robert Kubica
BMW Sauber
 28 Brakes 17
Ret 15 Germany Sebastian Vettel
Renault
 15 Accident 4
Ret 8 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr.
Renault
 10 Collision 12
Ret 12 Switzerland Sébastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 10 Collision 11
Source:[19]

Championship standings after the race

  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

See also

References

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  4. ^ "Peace and Sport - Be Part of What Matters". Peace and Sport. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  5. ^ "2009 FIA Formula One World Championship". Formula One Administration Ltd. Archived from the original on 16 May 2010. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  6. ^ "Red Bull plan upgrade for Monaco". BBC Sport. 10 May 2009. Archived from the original on 14 May 2009. Retrieved 12 May 2009.
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  11. ^ Garrett, Jerry (7 May 2010). "'Iron Man 2' and the Fate of the Rolls-Royces". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 10 May 2010. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  12. ^ "Final News Briefs from Monaco". f1-live.com. f1-live.com. 25 May 2009. Archived from the original on 28 May 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2009.
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  16. ^ "FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2009 - Qualifying Results". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 22 January 2015. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  17. ^ Tremayne, David (25 May 2009). "Button shows soft touch to savour 'special' home win". www.independent.co.uk. Independent News and Media Limited. Archived from the original on 28 May 2009. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
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  20. ^ a b "Monaco 2009 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 19 March 2019.

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