Sunday, March 29, 2009

The race was deservedly won by the 3 week old team Brawn GP with Jenson Button leading from start to finish. Rubens Barcichello (second on the grid) had a bad start with the clutch control pushing him back to 10th place and having to drive the first part of the race with a damaged front wing. The incident between Vettel and Kubica moved him up from 4th to 2nd in the closing stages. Another lucky man was Lewis Hamilton who moved up to third after Jarno Trulli., who had started from the pit lane due to rear wing problems yesterday, finished third and was demoted after the race by the stewards:(

Jarno Trulli has lost his third place after stewards penalized him for passing under the safety car in the closing laps. He had runn off the road near the end of the race, losing a place to Lewis Hamilton, but then repassed the world champion once he rejoined the circuit. Soon after Hamilton suddenly slowed down and pulled over to the side of the road and Trulli thinking that he had a problem, overtook him. This erro cost the Italian a 10-second stop-go penalty as a result, but since the offence happened within the flast five laps he was given a 25-second penalty added to his race time dropping him to 12th.


and

Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel has been given a 10-place grid penalty for next weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix following an incident during the closing stages of todays race. Vettel collided with BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica when the Polish driver attempted to overtake him. Following a post-race investigation, stewards decided to penalise the young German for 'causing a collision and forcing a driver off the track’.

For all the information go here
http://racingdriver.oilpatch.com/australiangp2009.html

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Melbourne Australia Formula 1 Brawn Button & Barichello


Melbourne Australia Formula 1 Brawn Button & Barichello

Yes the 3 B´s against all odds pulled it off in Australia this afternoon.

Brawn GP (previously Honda) during the winter thought at any time that they would have to join the Credit crisis and shut their doors. I believe that Ross Brawn purchased the company for one pound sterling (($1.40).

Niko Rosberg has set the fastest practice this morning making it 3 fastest practices in a row. This afternoon it was Jenson Button and Rubens Barichello (remember him being ordered by Ferrari in an Austrian GP to pull over and let Michael Schumacher win?) fighting
it out until the last minute as to who would take the honours for pole. In the end it was the Brit from the Brazilian. It was only several days ago that Rubens knew that he had a drive for 2009

Richard Branson climbed on board the new team as a Sponsor with his VIRGIN brand name for Brawn GP

Why not check out the other drivers times at http://racingdriver.oilpatch.com/australiangp2009.html

Where did Lewis Hamilton come? 15th

Friday, March 27, 2009

Melbourne Australia Formula 1 practice

Surprise - look who is heading the tables today!

Practice 2
(Friday Afternoon)

Pos
No
Driver
Team
Time/Retired
Gap
Laps
1
16
Nico Rosberg
Williams-Toyota
1:26.053


36
2
23
Rubens Barrichello
Brawn-Mercedes
1:26.157
0.104
38
3
9
Jarno Trulli
Toyota
1:26.350
0.297
42
4
14
Mark Webber
RBR-Renault
1:26.370
0.317
30
5
22
Jenson Button
Brawn-Mercedes
1:26.374
0.321
38
6
10
Timo Glock
Toyota
1:26.443
0.390
42
7
17
Kazuki Nakajima
Williams-Toyota
1:26.560
0.507
33
8
15
Sebastian Vettel
RBR-Renault
1:26.740
0.687
19
9
20
Adrian Sutil
Force India-Mercedes
1:27.040
0.987
29
10
3
Felipe Massa
Ferrari
1:27.064
1.011
35
11
4
Kimi Räikkönen
Ferrari
1:27.204
1.151
32
12
7
Fernando Alonso
Renault
1:27.232
1.179
28
13
21
Giancarlo Fisichella
Force India-Mercedes
1:27.282
1.229
32
14
6
Nick Heidfeld
BMW Sauber
1:27.317
1.264
34
15
5
Robert Kubica
BMW Sauber
1:27.398
1.345
36
16
11
Sebastien Bourdais
STR-Ferrari
1:27.479
1.426
36
17
2
Heikki Kovalainen
McLaren-Mercedes
1:27.802
1.749
35
18
1
Lewis Hamilton
McLaren-Mercedes
1:27.813
1.760
31
19
8
Nelsinho Piquet
Renault
1:27.828
1.775
35
20
12
Sebastien Buemi
STR-Ferrari
1:28.076
2.023
33


























Practice 1 (Friday Morning)


Pos
No
Driver
Team
Time/Retired
Gap
Laps
1
16
Nico Rosberg
Williams-Toyota
1:26.687


19
2
17
Kazuki Nakajima
Williams-Toyota
1:26.736
0.049
21
3
4
Kimi Räikkönen
Ferrari
1:26.750
0.063
24
4
23
Rubens Barrichello
Brawn-Mercedes
1:27.226
0.539
21
5
2
Heikki Kovalainen
McLaren-Mercedes
1:27.453
0.766
15
6
22
Jenson Button
Brawn-Mercedes
1:27.467
0.780
12
7
3
Felipe Massa
Ferrari
1:27.642
0.955
24
8
10
Timo Glock
Toyota
1:27.710
1.023
24
9
20
Adrian Sutil
Force India-Mercedes
1:27.993
1.306
20
10
7
Fernando Alonso
Renault
1:28.123
1.436
16
11
6
Nick Heidfeld
BMW Sauber
1:28.137
1.450
20
12
9
Jarno Trulli
Toyota
1:28.142
1.455
21
13
5
Robert Kubica
BMW Sauber
1:28.511
1.824
22
14
21
Giancarlo Fisichella
Force India-Mercedes
1:28.603
1.916
16
15
12
Sebastien Buemi
STR-Ferrari
1:28.785
2.098
27
16
1
Lewis Hamilton
McLaren-Mercedes
1:29.042
2.355
18
17
14
Mark Webber
RBR-Renault
1:29.081
2.394
7
18
8
Nelsinho Piquet
Renault
1:29.461
2.774
25
19
11
Sebastien Bourdais
STR-Ferrari
1:29.499
2.812
21
20
15
Sebastian Vettel
RBR-Renault
1:32.784
6.097
4
Pre race comment - no commet - a bit controversial!

A date has been set for the FIA International Court of Appeal hearing over the diffusers on the Brawn GP, Toyota and Williams cars. It will take place in Paris on April 14 in the week prior to round three of the championship, the Chinese Grand Prix.

Stewards passed the cars of all three teams in Melbourne on Thursday, prompting protests from rivals, who believe their diffusers may be illegal. Those protests were rejected, a decision that was subsequently appealed by Ferrari, Red Bull Racing and Renault.

This means that these 3 teams could loose any points scored this weekend and the next GP if Ferrari, Red Bull and Renault are successful with their appeal

What is your opinion? Why not leave a comment about it?