Bahrain F1 results - Jenson Button makes it three wins from four

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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JUGNU - 4/26/2009 7:08:56 PM

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Congratulations Jenson Button and Brawn GP. Great pace and consistency.
Vettel is surely a top class driver, in the same level as Hamilton or Alonso. He is the perfect example that a driver can make a difference, just like last year where he was mxing his toro rosso with faster Toyotas and Williams and occasionally even BMW, this year he is doing the same and fighting with leading Brawns and Toyota despite having a slightly slower car. Great driver.

Toyota had great chance of a win(Both were leading till the first pit stop and set fastest laps) but they ruined it with wrong tyre choice for both the drivers. Option tyres were clearly faster but they put both drivers on slower prime tyres for the crucial middle stint of the race, the difference between the performance of tyres were almost 1 second. Strategy costed Toyota the win and not pace. Anyway good luck for next races.

JUGNU

_43LE - 4/27/2009 1:03:34 PM

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You're still trying to make Japanese car fans look stupid? Everyone knows that Honda is no longer in F1.

_43LE - 4/27/2009 10:26:45 PM

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Nice try but you're not convincing and it's not working.

My_Ultimate_Driving_Machine - 4/26/2009 10:01:43 PM

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American Race Drivers are the best in the entire world just like we are in sports - Baseball, Basketball, Football etc.
Our Nascar drivers which drive on Oval tracks( tougher to win when you are going round n round ) will all kick ass of these Euro F1 drivers which come from European countries smaller than US states - I rest my case.

DinamoR - 4/27/2009 2:06:52 AM

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Just another inbred narrowminded stupid yankee. people wonder how a clown like Bush became pres. twice. dude like this guy is the reason.

people like you are a HUGE embarassment to the USA

TECHGEEK - 4/26/2009 10:07:35 PM

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That is because we choose not to play in sports which the rest of the World plays cuz we suck in them. Biggest e.g. Soccer. Besides, F1 has brought hi-tech features into road going cars so numerous you will find a few in every car. And c'mon Ferraris and McLarens and all these cars are way cooler than Nascar cars going round and round on a boring track.

The Euro nations might be smaller than US but the EU ( Nation-State?) is the same size and packs a massive punch. Formula-1 is the British equivalent of the American Racing format NASCAR and far better IMO.

andraz - 4/27/2009 2:50:17 AM

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As far as I know, brawn has mercedes benz engines. I guess this is why its called Brawn - Mercedes?

DoctorC - 4/27/2009 4:39:00 AM

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For this year it's Mercedes.

There are some talking on a single engine supplier next year, and even Honda may do a comeback for Brawn/Engine Suppliers.

TECHGEEK - 4/27/2009 7:44:37 AM

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Well Huu, some European Nations do talk a lot and Great Britain realizes this, which is one of the big reasons why UK still has border checks for entering and has not adopted the EURO yet etc.
However, they will def. settle their differences sooner rather than later as they are doing having learnt a lesson fighting for centuries. Afterall, who thought that France & Germany would ever become fierce allies.

And regarding Nascar, PLEASE - the first lap is boring itself whereas I can watch much more than 3 on F1 - That is why it is popular in so many countries, sorry continents even though primarily it is a European (British) Motorsport.

roundwego - 4/27/2009 10:33:45 AM

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Brawn would never use a dog Honda engine. why would he want to go from first to last.