2009 Spanish Grand Prix
2009 Spanish Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 5 of 17 in the 2009 Formula One World Championship
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Race details[1] | |||||
Date | 10 May 2009 | ||||
Official name | Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Telefónica 2009 | ||||
Location | Circuit de Catalunya, Montmeló, Catalonia, Spain[2] | ||||
Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
Course length | 4.655 km (2.892 miles) | ||||
Distance | 66 laps, 307.104 km (190.826 miles) | ||||
Weather | Warm, Sunny | ||||
Attendance | 92,500 | ||||
Pole position | |||||
Driver |
Mercedes | ||||
Time | 1:20.527 | ||||
Fastest lap | |||||
Driver | Rubens Barrichello |
Mercedes | |||
Time | 1:22.762 on lap 28 | ||||
Podium | |||||
First |
Mercedes | ||||
Second |
Mercedes | ||||
Third |
Renault | ||||
Lap leaders |
The 2009 Spanish Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Telefónica 2009)
It resulted in a one-two finish by Brawn GP drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello, respectively.[4]
Report
Background
The 2009 Spanish Grand Prix was widely anticipated as a restart to the season, with most teams bringing new developments to their cars. Brawn GP made their first upgrades to the
During the
Practice and qualifying
Three practice sessions were held before the race; of which two were held on Friday May 8, 2009, with the first in the morning and the second in the afternoon. Both sessions lasted 90 minutes with weather conditions sunny throughout. The third session was held on Saturday morning, lasting for 60 minutes.
In the first practice session,
Qualifying on Saturday afternoon was split into three parts. At the end of the first session, Kimi Räikkönen was knocked out from 16th place. He later admitted his fault, believing his first qualifying lap was good enough to secure passage to the next session.
Race
Rubens Barrichello made a good start from third on the grid and took the lead at the first corner. Jenson Button was running second, whilst the KERS-equipped Ferrari of Felipe Massa was able to gain one place from the start and was placed third ahead of Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel.
An accident on the first lap of the race caused the retirement of
Barrichello pulled away from Button consistently during the first part of the race. After the first set of pit-stops, it was evident that Barrichello was running a three-stop strategy, while Button and the other front runners were making two stops. Barrichello, however, was unable to create enough of a gap to the chasing pack before his second pit-stop, and lost the lead to Button. After all the other drivers had pitted at least once, Barrichello found himself behind third-placed Massa and fourth-placed Vettel. After the last round of pit-stops were completed, Button was first, while Barrichello had moved up to second, and Red Bull's Mark Webber took third position – the result of a long second stint that Red Bull had opted for in order to emerge in front of the slower Ferrari of Massa.[22] Button had originally been on the same three-stop strategy as Barrichello, but was switched to a two-stop strategy by the team to avoid exiting the pits into the dirty air of Rosberg's Williams.[23]
Ferrari's problems continued as Kimi Räikkönen experienced hydraulic failure on his car, causing him to retire on lap 17. Massa had defended his position against Vettel throughout the afternoon, but late in the race, Ferrari identified a problem in that Massa was consuming more fuel than expected. As he could potentially run out of fuel before the end of the race, Massa was instructed to slow down and conserve fuel, and as a result he lost fourth place to Vettel, then fifth place to Fernando Alonso on the last lap.[24]
Button took his fourth victory of the season, with Brawn GP claiming a one-two finish as Barrichello crossed the line 13 seconds later. Webber took the final podium position, with teammate Vettel behind him in fourth. Alonso was fifth, Massa sixth, Nick Heidfeld, who had significantly closed the gap to Massa in the final lap, had to settle for seventh but in the process breaking Michael Schumacher's record of 24 consecutive finishes, while Nico Rosberg claimed the final point in eighth place.[24] Webber claimed that driving a long stint with a heavy fuel load "felt as though [he] was towing a caravan."[25]
Classification
Qualifying
Cars that used
Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Grid |
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1 | 22 | Jenson Button | Mercedes
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1:20.707 | 1:20.192 | 1:20.527 | 1 |
2 | 15 | Sebastian Vettel | Renault
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1:20.715 | 1:20.220 | 1:20.660 | 2 |
3 | 23 | Rubens Barrichello | Mercedes
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1:20.808 | 1:19.954 | 1:20.762 | 3 |
4 | 3‡ | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 1:20.484 | 1:20.149 | 1:20.934 | 4 |
5 | 14 | Mark Webber | Renault
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1:20.689 | 1:20.007 | 1:21.049 | 5 |
6 | 10 | Timo Glock | Toyota
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1:20.877 | 1:20.107 | 1:21.247 | 6 |
7 | 9 | Jarno Trulli | Toyota
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1:21.189 | 1:20.420 | 1:21.254 | 7 |
8 | 7‡ | Fernando Alonso | Renault
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1:21.186 | 1:20.509 | 1:21.392 | 8 |
9 | 16 | Nico Rosberg | Toyota
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1:20.745 | 1:20.256 | 1:22.558 | 9 |
10 | 5 | Robert Kubica | BMW Sauber
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1:20.931 | 1:20.408 | 1:22.685 | 10 |
11 | 17 | Kazuki Nakajima | Toyota
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1:20.818 | 1:20.531 | 11 | |
12 | 8 | Nelson Piquet Jr. | Renault
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1:21.128 | 1:20.604 | 12 | |
13 | 6 | Nick Heidfeld | BMW Sauber
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1:21.095 | 1:20.676 | 13 | |
14 | 1‡ | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes
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1:20.991 | 1:20.805 | 14 | |
15 | 12 | Sébastien Buemi | Toro Rosso-Ferrari | 1:21.033 | 1:21.067 | 15 | |
16 | 4‡ | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 1:21.291 | 16 | ||
17 | 11 | Sébastien Bourdais | Toro Rosso-Ferrari | 1:21.300 | 17 | ||
18 | 2‡ | Heikki Kovalainen | Mercedes
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1:21.675 | 18 | ||
19 | 20 | Adrian Sutil | Mercedes
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1:21.742 | 19 | ||
20 | 21 | Giancarlo Fisichella | Mercedes
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1:22.204 | 20 | ||
Source:[26]
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Race
Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 22 | Jenson Button | Mercedes
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66 | 1:37:19.202 | 1 | 10 |
2 | 23 | Rubens Barrichello | Mercedes
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66 | +13.056 | 3 | 8 |
3 | 14 | Mark Webber | Renault
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66 | +13.924 | 5 | 6 |
4 | 15 | Sebastian Vettel | Renault
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66 | +18.941 | 2 | 5 |
5 | 7‡ | Fernando Alonso | Renault
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66 | +43.166 | 8 | 4 |
6 | 3‡ | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 66 | +50.827 | 4 | 3 |
7 | 6 | Nick Heidfeld | BMW Sauber
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66 | +52.312 | 13 | 2 |
8 | 16 | Nico Rosberg | Toyota
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66 | +1:05.211 | 9 | 1 |
9 | 1‡ | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes
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65 | +1 Lap | 14 | |
10 | 10 | Timo Glock | Toyota
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65 | +1 Lap | 6 | |
11 | 5 | Robert Kubica | BMW Sauber
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65 | +1 Lap | 10 | |
12 | 8 | Nelson Piquet Jr. | Renault
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65 | +1 Lap | 12 | |
13 | 17 | Kazuki Nakajima | Toyota
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65 | +1 Lap | 11 | |
14 | 21 | Giancarlo Fisichella | Mercedes
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65 | +1 Lap | 20 | |
Ret | 4‡ | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 17 | Hydraulics | 16 | |
Ret | 2‡ | Heikki Kovalainen | Mercedes
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7 | Gearbox | 18 | |
Ret | 9 | Jarno Trulli | Toyota
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0 | Collision | 7 | |
Ret | 12 | Sébastien Buemi | Toro Rosso-Ferrari | 0 | Collision | 15 | |
Ret | 11 | Sébastien Bourdais | Toro Rosso-Ferrari | 0 | Collision | 17 | |
Ret | 20 | Adrian Sutil | Mercedes
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0 | Collision | 19 | |
Source:[27]
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Championship standings after the race
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
See also
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External links
- Official results from