2009 Australian GP
Mar 29th, 2009 by AJ
What a race. Amazing overtakings, loads of accidents and debut wins.
My thoughts:
Brawn GP create history by winning their debut race as a team with 1-2 standings. They were helped by some late accidents but both the cars ran an amazing race with Button leading from the start to finish.
Both the Ferraris did not finish the race and scored no points.
Rosberg had a pretty good race but lost out due to problems in the final stage, losing positions quite rapidly.
Hamilton had a very good race coming 4th from the rear of the field, helped by the multitude of accidents
Sebastian Vettel had the worst luck when he was taken out Robert Kubica with 3 laps to go. Vettel was looking good for 2nd place. Hopefully his form is the sign of greater races to come.
The KERS system provided some additional interest to the races as evidenced by the Ferrari start and its excellent use by Alonso to keep faster cars from overtaking his.
Full Race Results:
| 1 | Great Britain | J Button | Brawn |
| 2 | Brazil | R Barrichello | Brawn |
| 3 | Italy | J Trulli | Toyota |
| 4 | Great Britain | L Hamilton | McLaren |
| 5 | Germany | T Glock | Toyota |
| 6 | Spain | F Alonso | Renault |
| 7 | Germany | N Rosberg | Williams |
| 8 | Switzerland | S Buemi | Toro Rosso |
| 9 | France | S Bourdais | Toro Rosso |
| 10 | Germany | A Sutil | Force India |
| 11 | Germany | N Heidfeld | BMW Sauber |
| 12 | Italy | G Fisichella | Force India |
| 13 | Australia | M Webber | Red Bull |
| 14 | Germany | S Vettel (ret.) | Red Bull |
| 15 | Poland | R Kubica (ret.) | BMW Sauber |
| 16 | Finland | K Raikkonen (ret.) | Ferrari |
| 17 | Brazil | F Massa (ret.) | Ferrari |
| 18 | Brazil | N Piquet Jr (ret.) | Renault |
| 19 | Japan | K Nakajima (ret.) | Williams |
| 20 | Finland | H Kovalainen (ret.) | McLaren |
Race Results thanks to BBC
Trulli & Hamilton, Vettel and Kubica have been called to meet the race stewards! If Trulli overtook Lewis under the safety car, it would mean that Lewis will get 3rd!
This thing just keeps getting better.