Jenson Button made it three wins out of four for Brawn GP in Bahrain on Sunday afternoon, with a finely judged performance that stretched his world championship score to 31 points.
Before the race the Englishman had suggested that Brawn’s domination was under threat. But when Red Bull dangerman Sebastian Vettel lost out at the start as McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton burst through to momentarily separate the Toyotas, Button was able to squeeze round the outside of the German in Turn One and was thereafter never threatened by him. [...]
RESULTS:
2009 Bahrain - drivers:
1. Jenson Button (Brawn-Mercedes) 1:31:48.182
2. Sebastian Vettel (RBR-Renault) +7.1 secs
3. Jarno Trulli (Toyota) +9.1 secs
4. Lewis Hamilton (McLaren-Mercedes) +22.0 secs
5. Rubens Barrichello (Brawn-Mercedes) +37.7 secs
6. Kimi Räikkönen (Ferrari) +42.0 secs
7. Timo Glock (Toyota) +42.8 secs
8. Fernando Alonso (Renault) +52.7 secs
9. Nico Rosberg (Williams-Toyota) +58.1 secs
10. Nelsinho Piquet (Renault) +65.1 secs
11. Mark Webber (RBR-Renault) +67.6 secs
12. Heikki Kovalainen (McLaren-Mercedes) +77.8 secs
13. Sebastien Bourdais (STR-Ferrari) +78.8 secs
14. Felipe Massa (Ferrari) +1 Lap
15. Giancarlo Fisichella (Force India-Mercedes) +1 Lap
16. Adrian Sutil (Force India-Mercedes) +1 Lap
17. Sebastien Buemi (STR-Ferrari) +1 Lap
18. Robert Kubica (BMW Sauber) +1 Lap
19. Nick Heidfeld (BMW Sauber) +1 Lap
Ret Kazuki Nakajima (Williams-Toyota)
Drivers, general:
1. 31 Jenson Button, British, Brawn-Mercedes
2. 19 Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian, Brawn-Mercedes
3. 18 Sebastian Vettel, German, RBR-Renault
4. 14.5 Jarno Trulli, Italian, Toyota
5. 12 Timo Glock, German, Toyota
6. 9.5 Mark Webber, Australian, RBR-Renault
7. 9 Lewis Hamilton, British, McLaren-Mercedes
8. 5 Fernando Alonso, Spanish, Renault
9. 4 Nick Heidfeld, German, BMW Sauber
10. 4 Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish, McLaren-Mercedes
11. 3.5 Nico Rosberg, German, Williams-Toyota
12. 3 Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish, Ferrari
13. 3 Sebastien Buemi, Swiss, STR-Ferrari
14. 1 Sebastien Bourdais, French, STR-Ferrari
15. 0 Felipe Massa, Brazilian, Ferrari
16. 0 Adrian Sutil, German, Force India-Mercedes
17. 0 Nelsinho Piquet, Brazilian, Renault
18. 0 Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian, Force India-Mercedes
19. 0 Kazuki Nakajima, Japanese, Williams-Toyota
20. 0 Robert Kubica, Polish, BMW Sauber
Teams, general:
1. 50 Brawn-Mercedes
2. 27.5 RBR-Renault,
3. 26.5 Toyota
4. 13 McLaren-Mercedes,
5. 5 Renault,
6. 4 BMW Sauber
7. 4 STR-Ferrari,
8. 3.5 Williams-Toyota
9. 3 Ferrari
10. 0 Force India-Mercedes
Photo by Kelvin Wong @ Flickr
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