F1 News
- September 27, 2009
Singapore Race
Lewis Hamilton take a start to finish win, to show that the McLaren has certainly come of age. It’s just a pity that the McLaren was so poor in the beginning of the season.
However the big news is the controlled, mature drive by Jenson Button to bring himself home in fifth spot, crucially just behind Vettel and ahead of his team mate and closest title challenger Barrichello.
A good day, and our drive of the day for Timo Glock in the Toyota, not only was it unseen, and highly deserved, but the team needs it to keep the Japanese pay masters on board and hopefully ok the funding for next years racing.
The Red Bull cars all seemed to be struggling with brake issues, with Mark Webber loosing his front right brake, and crashing out at the end of the main straight. The Toro Rosso cars were then stopped, with at least one of them suffering brake issues as well. Vettlel was warned his brakes were struggling as well, as were both of the Brawn cars towards the end of the race.
A good race from Fernando, giving the Renault team it’s first good press all weekend, and the teams first podium of the season, finishing his car in third spot, ING getting some ‘free’ sponsorship from the press briefing as he still has the logo’s on the suite.
Nikko had an unfortunate event where he lost the back end of the car coming out of the pit’s and crossed the white safety line just as a safety car session started. This forced him to take his drive through penalty shortly after the safety car was brought in, ruining what could have been a good battle between Lewis, him, Vettel and Timo.
Vettel then had to take a drive through for speeding on pit entry, ruining his race chances. He also seemed to damage the rear diffuser when he ran wide over the kerbs.
This all adds up though to mean that in theory Jenson can take the championship at the next race if he finishes 5points ahead of Rubens.
The last three races could well be good, as the Red Bulls look to be back on form, the Toyota’s will try be quick in Japan, Brawn seem to be there or there about, and the McLaren’s seem to be the cars to beat in the race.
| Pos | No | Driver | Team | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Lewis Hamilton | McLaren-Mercedes | 61 | Winner | 1 | 10 |
| 2 | 10 | Timo Glock | Toyota | 61 | +9.6 secs | 6 | 8 |
| 3 | 7 | Fernando Alonso | Renault | 61 | +16.6 secs | 5 | 6 |
| 4 | 15 | Sebastian Vettel | RBR-Renault | 61 | +20.2 secs | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | 22 | Jenson Button | Brawn-Mercedes | 61 | +30.0 secs | 11 | 4 |
| 6 | 23 | Rubens Barrichello | Brawn-Mercedes | 61 | +31.8 secs | 9 | 3 |
| 7 | 2 | Heikki Kovalainen | McLaren-Mercedes | 61 | +36.1 secs | 8 | 2 |
| 8 | 5 | Robert Kubica | BMW Sauber | 61 | +55.0 secs | 7 | 1 |
| 9 | 17 | Kazuki Nakajima | Williams-Toyota | 61 | +56.0 secs | 10 | |
| 10 | 4 | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 61 | +58.8 secs | 12 | |
| 11 | 16 | Nico Rosberg | Williams-Toyota | 61 | +59.7 secs | 3 | |
| 12 | 9 | Jarno Trulli | Toyota | 61 | +73.0 secs | 14 | |
| 13 | 3 | Giancarlo Fisichella | Ferrari | 61 | +79.8 secs | 17 | |
| 14 | 21 | Vitantonio Liuzzi | Force India-Mercedes | 61 | +93.5 secs | 19 | |
| Ret | 11 | Jaime Alguersuari | STR-Ferrari | 47 | +14 Lap | 16 | |
| Ret | 12 | Sebastien Buemi | STR-Ferrari | 47 | +14 Laps | 13 | |
| Ret | 14 | Mark Webber | RBR-Renault | 45 | +16 Laps | 4 | |
| Ret | 20 | Adrian Sutil | Force India-Mercedes | 23 | +38 Laps | 15 | |
| Ret | 6 | Nick Heidfeld | BMW Sauber | 19 | +42 Laps | 20 | |
| Ret | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Renault | 3 | +58 Laps | 18 |
2 Responses to “Singapore Race”
It certainly wasn’t the race I was hoping for. Lets hope Red Bull can pull it together and give Brawn a run for it, it’ll make one hell of an end to the season.
http://robert-strobel.com/2009/09/27/singapore-and-the-title-race-for-f1-2009/
By Rob on Sep 28, 2009
They will be back and mighty strong next year! No doubt!!
By Robin on Sep 29, 2009