2009 Turkish Grand Prix

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Turkey  2009 Turkish Grand Prix
Race details[1]
Race 7 of 17 in the 2009 Formula One season
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Date 7 June 2009
Official name V ING Turkish Grand Prix
Location Istanbul Park, Istanbul, Turkey
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 5.34 km (3.32 mi)
Distance 58 laps, 309.72 km (192.56 mi)
Weather Sunny
Attendance 36,000
Pole position
Driver Red Bull-Renault
Time 1:28.316
Fastest lap
Driver United Kingdom Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes
Time 1:27.579 on lap 40
Podium
First Brawn-Mercedes
Second Red Bull-Renault
Third Red Bull-Renault
Lap leaders

The 2009 Turkish Grand Prix was the seventh motor race of the 2009 Formula One season. It was held on 7 June 2009 at Istanbul Park, Istanbul, Turkey.

Felipe Massa won the 2008 Turkish Grand Prix for Ferrari, in addition to his wins at Istanbul Park in 2006 and 2007. The only other driver to win the Turkish Grand Prix in Formula One was Massa's current team-mate Kimi Räikkönen, when with McLaren. Jenson Button led the Drivers' Championship by 16 points from his teammate at Brawn, Rubens Barrichello going into the race,[2] while Brawn GP led the Constructors' Championship by 43.5 points from Red Bull.

The race was won by Jenson Button, with Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing completing the podium. Vettel had qualified on pole but a mistake on the first lap scuppered his chances of victory.[3][4]

Report

Practice

In Friday practice 1, Williams, Ferrari and McLaren performed well, Nico Rosberg, Lewis Hamilton and Jarno Trulli posting the top 3 times. Brawn, Toyota, Red Bull and Renault ran mid field during the session with BMW and STR backmarking.

In Friday practice 2, Williams, Renault and Red Bull were the most consistent performers, Heikki Kovalainen, Fernando Alonso and Robert Kubica posted the top 3 times. Ferrari, Brawn and Toyota ran mid field during the session with Force India and STR backmarking.

After both Friday practice sessions, individual performances were quite mixed, the only consistent constructor was Williams as BMW and McLaren saw mixed results, while top running teams Brawn and Red Bull ran upper mid field for both sessions.[5]

Qualifying

Nick Heidfeld qualified his BMW Sauber in eleventh position.

Sebastian Vettel dominated the qualifying session on Saturday 6 June 2009, setting the fastest time in all three parts of qualifying to claim his second pole position of the season, and third of his career.

The first knockout session, to eliminate the five slowest cars, claimed the scalp of reigning World Champion Lewis Hamilton – only the second time the Englishman had failed to progress from the first session. Also eliminated were Nelson Piquet Jr., Sébastien Buemi, Giancarlo Fisichella and Sébastien Bourdais. They all produced times in the 1:28's.

In the second knockout session, the top 10, who progressed to the final shoot-out for pole, were separated by just 0.4 seconds, with Fernando Alonso and Nico Rosberg just sneaking through. Nick Heidfeld, Kazuki Nakajima, Timo Glock, Heikki Kovalainen and Adrian Sutil were knocked out, Heidfeld qualifying 11th for the second race in succession.

The third session to determine pole position was a tense battle with numerous drivers thinking they had claimed pole only for their time to be bettered.

Vettel was on provisional pole with a time of 1:28.801, with just a few minutes of the session remaining. Vettel's team mate Mark Webber then posted a 1:28.6, only for Button to go two-tenths of a second quicker after the chequered flag fell. Vettel, however, still had one lap left in him and went quicker again, reclaiming pole with a 1:28.316. Button's teammate Rubens Barichello also improved on his final lap, moving up to third position, ahead of Webber, with a 1:28.5.[6]

Race

History would favour Vettel, the previous four Turkish Grands Prix having been won from pole position. Button however had two more laps of fuel in qualifying, meaning he would have been on pole fuel-corrected.

Jenson Button won the race after taking the lead from polesitter Sebastian Vettel on the first lap.
Mark Webber qualified fourth and finished second.

Vettel initially made a strong start from pole, beating Button into the first corner. Vettel then ran wide at the challenging Turn 9, gifting Button the lead. Button's Brawn team-mate had a less fortunate start, a clutch problem dropping him from third on the grid to thirteenth by the end of the first lap. Webber was running third, having initially been passed by Jarno Trulli before the Australian regained his position. Felipe Massa had moved up to fifth position, ahead of Kimi Räikkönen and Fernando Alonso. Reigning world champion Hamilton had lost a place on the first lap, meaning he was running in 17th position out of 20 runners.

At the front Button began to open up a lead over Vettel but the action was in the midfield, Nico Rosberg getting past both Ferraris to move up to fifth by lap six. On lap eight, Barrichello spun trying to pass Heikki Kovalainen after a wheel-to-wheel battle from Turns 9 to 16. The Brazilian dropped to seventeenth but quickly regained two places before losing part of his front wing in a clash with Adrian Sutil on lap eleven. Barrichello pitted on lap thirteen, conversely teammate Button had serenely opened up a 5.6 second lead at the front of the race.

The leaders began pitting for their first stops on lap 15, with Vettel the first to stop, followed by Button two laps later and Webber and Rosberg on lap 18. Significantly, Vettel was fuelled lighter on a three-stop strategy, in contrast to the other leaders two-stop strategy. Vettel was therefore able to close the gap on Button after the first stops with his lighter car, but was unable to make the pass he needed before his second stop on lap 29. Vettel exited the pits behind Webber, with all the leaders due to make one more pit stop.

On lap 37, Hamilton was lapped by championship leader Button, who made his second stop along with Webber on lap 43. Vettel briefly ran second but had to make his third pit stop on lap 48, demoting him back to third position. Trulli emerged from the pit stops in fourth, narrowly ahead of Rosberg, while Robert Kubica and Timo Glock had moved into the final points paying positions as Raikkonen struggled and Kazuki Nakajima was delayed by a left front wheel covering failing to attach in his final stop. Meanwhile, Barrichello's miserable race finally ended as he retired with a gearbox problem while running near the back of the field.[7] This was the first time that a Brawn GP car was not running at the finish of a race.

Although Vettel closed the gap to Webber to just 0.7 seconds as the chequered flag fell, there were no significant positional changes in the final laps as Button cruised to his sixth win from the first seven races, a feat only matched by Alberto Ascari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Jim Clark and Michael Schumacher – who all won the World Championship after achieving this feat. Button also became the first Englishman to score record four consecutive victories since Nigel Mansell in 1992, who too went on to win the title that season.[8]

The race attendance was reported as a meager 36,000, with the venue capable of holding 150,000.

Classification

Qualifying

Cars that used KERS are marked with "‡"

Pos No Driver Constructor Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Grid
1 15 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:27.330 1:27.016 1:28.316 1
2 22 United Kingdom Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes 1:27.355 1:27.230 1:28.421 2
3 23 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 1:27.371 1:27.418 1:28.579 3
4 14 Australia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:27.466 1:27.416 1:28.613 4
5 9 Italy Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:27.529 1:27.195 1:28.666 5
6 4‡ Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:27.556 1:27.387 1:28.815 6
7 3‡ Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:27.508 1:27.349 1:28.858 7
8 7 Spain Fernando Alonso Renault 1:27.988 1:27.473 1:29.075 8
9 16 Germany Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:27.517 1:27.418 1:29.191 9
10 5 Poland Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:27.788 1:27.455 1:29.357 10
11 6 Germany Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:27.795 1:27.521 11
12 17 Japan Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:27.691 1:27.629 12
13 10 Germany Timo Glock Toyota 1:28.160 1:27.795 13
14 2‡ Finland Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:28.199 1:28.207 14
15 20 Germany Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:28.278 1:28.391 15
16 1‡ United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:28.318 16
17 8 Brazil Nelson Piquet, Jr. Renault 1:28.582 17
18 12 Switzerland Sébastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:28.708 18
19 21 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Mercedes 1:28.717 19
20 11 France Sébastien Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:28.918 20
Source:[9]

Race

Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 22 United Kingdom Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes 58 1:26:24.848 2 10
2 14 Australia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 58 +6.714 4 8
3 15 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 58 +7.461 1 6
4 9 Italy Jarno Trulli Toyota 58 +27.843 5 5
5 16 Germany Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 58 +31.539 9 4
6 3‡ Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari 58 +39.996 7 3
7 5 Poland Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 58 +46.247 10 2
8 10 Germany Timo Glock Toyota 58 +46.959 13 1
9 4‡ Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 58 +50.246 6
10 7 Spain Fernando Alonso Renault 58 +1:02.420 8
11 6 Germany Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 58 +1:04.327 11
12 17 Japan Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 58 +1:06.376 12
13 1‡ United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 58 +1:20.454 16
14 2‡ Finland Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 57 +1 lap 14
15 12 Switzerland Sébastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 57 +1 lap 18
16 8 Brazil Nelson Piquet, Jr. Renault 57 +1 lap 17
17 20 Germany Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 57 +1 lap 15
18 11 France Sébastien Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 57 +1 lap 20
Ret 23 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 47 Gearbox 3
Ret 21 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Mercedes 4 Brakes 19
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Championship standings after the race

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

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