2009 Monaco Grand Prix

May 2017 43 44 4.74 N 7 25 16.8 E scale:1563_type:landmark_region:MC title F1 Monaco Monaco Monte Carlo Formula 1 track map.svg Circuit de Monaco http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/monaco_810/circuit_diagram.html Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2009 Formula1.com 12 May 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090729041514/http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/monaco_810/circuit_diagram.html 29 July 2009 dead 24 May 2009 6 17 Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2009 Street circuit Circuit de Monaco 2.08 3.34 78 162.24 260.52 Sunny Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes 1:14.902 Great Britain Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:15.154 50 Brazil Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes Great Britain Rubens Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes Brazil Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari Finland MON 2009 Turkish Grand Prix 2009 Spanish Grand Prix The 2009 Monaco Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2009)Monaco http://www.formula1.com:80/races/in_detail/monaco_810/circuit_diagram.html https://web.archive.org/web/20091125232457/http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/monaco_810/circuit_diagram.html 22 December 2020 25 November 2009 live was a Formula One motor race that was held on 24 May 2009 at the Circuit de Monaco, in Monaco. The race, which was contested over 78 laps, was the sixth round of the 2009 Formula One season. It was won by Brawn GP driver Jenson Button, with his teammate Rubens Barrichello second, and Ferrari's Kimi Räikkönen third.https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8066032.stm Classy Button eases to Monaco win 24 May 2009 BBC Sport 25 May 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090528101945/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8066032.stm 28 May 2009 live This year a peace and sport initiative was introduced on this Grand Prix under the High Patronage of Albert II, Prince of Monaco.http://www.peace-sport.org/ Peace and Sport - Be Part of What Matters Peace and Sport 24 May 2020 Sébastien Bourdais scored his last world championship points at this race. Report Background The first five races of the championship ended with Brawn driver Jenson Button leading the Drivers Championship by 14 points from teammate Rubens Barrichello, having claimed 41 points out of a possible 45. Their Brawn GP team was leading the Constructors Championship with 68 points; second-placed Red Bull had 38.5, with their driver Sebastian Vettel third place in the drivers championship. Reigning World Champion Lewis Hamilton of McLaren was only in seventh place, having accumulated nine points.http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2009/ 2009 FIA Formula One World Championship Formula One Administration Ltd. 11 May 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100516020906/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2009/ 16 May 2010 dead Red Bull had a new two-tier diffuser ready for their RB5 car in Monaco, with chief designer Adrian Newey believing it could be a real benefit to the team. The Austrian drinks company team had won the 2009 Chinese Grand Prix . They had finished third and fourth in the previous race at Barcelona.https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8042920.stm Red Bull plan upgrade for Monaco 10 May 2009 BBC Sport 12 May 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090514030039/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8042920.stm 14 May 2009 live Force India had prepared several important upgrades for the VJM-02, focused upon giving high downforce by modifying the front and rear wings. This was to improve performance to score their first points, having not scored points before in a Formula One race. Most other teams, including Toyota and BMW Sauber, had modified cars to give good downforce and high mechanical grip; important for the Monaco circuit's low speed and twisting, slow corners.http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2009/5/9358.html Monaco Grand Prix - team and driver preview quotes 15 May 2009 Formula One Administration Ltd. 11 May 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100516023755/http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2009/5/9358.html 16 May 2010 dead In the run up to the race, Ferrari issued a statement declaring that "Ferrari does not intend to enter its cars in the next Formula One World Championship." if "the introduction of two different sets of regulations based on arbitrary technical rules and economic parameters." were to take place.http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2009/5/9348.html Ferrari release statement following board meeting 12 May 2009 Formula One Administration Ltd. 11 May 2010 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090908220947/http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2009/5/9348.html 8 September 2009 This was in reference to proposed regulations by the FIA World Motor Sport Council to introduce a Budget Cap for 2010, and allow technical freedom to those teams operating under it.http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/74947 FIA confirms £40m budget cap for 2010 Straw Edd 30 April 2009 autosport.com Haymarket Media 11 May 2010 The Renault Formula One team made a similar statement, announcing "If the decisions announced by the World Council on the 29th of April 2009 are not revised, we have no choice but to withdraw from the FIA Formula One World Championship at the end of 2009."http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/75287 Renault also reconsidering 2010 entry Elizalde Pablo 13 May 2009 autosport.com Haymarket Media 11 May 2010 These statements were the start of the FIA–FOTA dispute over the 2010 regulations. During the event, scenes for the 2010 film Iron Man 2 were shot, which features a historic Monaco Grand Prix race.http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/iron-man-2-and-the-fate-of-the-rolls-royce/ 'Iron Man 2' and the Fate of the Rolls-Royces Garrett Jerry 7 May 2010 The New York Times 11 May 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100510081513/http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/iron-man-2-and-the-fate-of-the-rolls-royce/ 10 May 2010 live Prior to the race the drivers complained about a billboard for Martini featuring model Jessiqa Pace was distracting and in the line of sight of drivers as they exit Loews hairpin.http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/090525164455.shtml Final News Briefs from Monaco f1-live.com f1-live.com 25 May 2009 25 May 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090528200202/http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/090525164455.shtml 28 May 2009 dead Practice and qualifying thumb|left|Jenson Button took pole position and won the race, extending his championship lead. The early practice sessions at Monaco are traditionally run on the Thursday of the week so that the roads can be opened on the Friday for public access. As such, two practice sessions were held on the Thursday, with the third on Saturday morning, followed shortly by qualifying. The Thursday practice sessions began with Brawn GP establishing its dominance once again; Rubens Barrichello was fastest by three-tenths of a second from countryman Felipe Massa with a time of 1:17.199, and the two McLarens of Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen following shortly thereafter. The Brawns continued their form in the second session, placing third and fourth behind Nico Rosberg – who topped practice for the ninth time this season with a 1:15.243 – and Hamilton once again. A similar story held true for the Saturday session, with Jenson Button narrowly being beaten by Fernando Alonso in the Renault. The first qualifying session was marked by 2008 winner Lewis Hamilton crashing at Mirabeau and damaging his suspension, putting him out of qualifying and gradually knocking him down the order until he would finish sixteenth, ahead of the BMW Saubers of Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica and the Toyotas of Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock. The second session saw the departure of the two Force Indias, both Toro Rossos and Nelson Piquet Jr.'s Renault while Finland's Kimi Räikkönen and Heikki Kovalainen topped the timing sheets. Giancarlo Fisichella had two times disallowed for cutting the corners at the Swimming Pool Complex and Nouvelle Chicane. The third and final session was dominated by Rubens Barrichello and Sebastian Vettel until a late lap from Jenson Button saw the championship leader take his fourth pole from six starts this season with Kimi Räikkönen the highest-placed KERS-equipped car in second place. Race thumb|right|Kimi Räikkönen took Ferrari's first podium finish of 2009. At the start, Button maintained his lead as Barrichello passed Räikkönen on the approach to the first corner. Both Brawn cars and Sebastian Vettel started the race on the super-soft tyres;Button takes sublime Monaco win http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=45955 ITV https://web.archive.org/web/20090527090355/http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=45955 27 May 2009 dead 27 January 2016 the Ferraris and Williams started on the soft compound. This provided an advantage, as the super-soft tyres – which had proven to be the better of the two all weekend – started to lose grip drastically after twelve laps as championship contender Sebastian Vettel proved when he started losing up to four seconds per lap on leader Button, because of the difficulty in overtaking at Monaco, this greatly helped the Brawn GP drivers and Kimi Räikkönen (the only three drivers ahead of Vettel when his tyres started to lose grip), because for several minutes all cars behind him found themselves unable to overtake, opening a huge gap between third and fourth, even for several laps after Vettel had been overtaken. Sébastien Buemi had an accident running into Nelson Piquet Jr. on lap 10 during a passing attempt at Sainte Devote,http://formula-one.speedtv.com/article/f1-buemi-apologies-to-piquet-after-shunt/ F1: Buemi Apologies To Piquet After Shunt Speed TV dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090527070846/http://formula-one.speedtv.com/article/f1-buemi-apologies-to-piquet-after-shunt/ 27 May 2009 27 January 2016 while Vettel slid into the barriers under brakes at the same spot several laps later. Button maintained a fifteen-second lead over teammate Barrichello for most of the race, who had a smaller gap over the Ferraris of Kimi Räikkönen and Felipe Massa; Massa raised the ire of the stewards after crossing the chicane at the Swimming Pool Complex twice, though no penalty was awarded as both occasions were due to driver error. In the late stages of the race, Heikki Kovalainen crashed out at the Swimming Pool, spinning and colliding with the barriers. Kazuki Nakajima also crashed out on the last lap of the race at Mirabeau. Robert Kubica was the only other retirement, his race ending with brake problems. In the final phase of the race, the Ferraris pitted for the super-soft tyres, discovering the same graining problem as everyone else over longer stints. The distance between Button and Barrichello halved over the final few laps, though Button was deliberately slowing to avoid encountering backmarkers who were fighting for position. He won by seven-and-a-half seconds from Barrichello, with the Ferraris of Räikkönen and Massa third and fourth. After the end of the race, Button mistakenly parked his car in parc fermé in the pit lane as is normal for other Grands Prix, rather than on the main straight with the other two podium finishers as is the norm for Monaco. As a result, he had to run down the start/finish straight to the podium. With his win, Button scored the third-best start to a season in Formula One history, with five victories and one third place. Only Nigel Mansell in 1992 and Michael Schumacher in 1994 recorded better starts, with each taking five victories and one second place in the first six rounds. Also, his victory in the Brawn-Mercedes marked the first time in modern F1 history that a single engine has won three races in a rowhttp://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/75621 Brawn hoping for big guns' fightback Haymarket Publications autosport.com Jonathan Noble 25 May 2009 25 May 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090806073040/http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/75621 6 August 2009 live – engines in the 1950s lasted most of a season, sometimes more than one season. It was also the first time since 2006 that a driver had won three races in succession. Michael Schumacher was the last to do so, as he won the United States, French and German Grands Prix. Classification Cars that used KERS are marked with "‡" Qualifying thumb|right|The Toyota team endured one of the worst weekends of its time in Formula One. Jarno Trulli (pictured) and Timo Glock set the two slowest qualifying times. thumb|right|Lewis Hamilton crashed his car in the first part of qualifying, restricting himself to nineteenth position on the grid after a penalty. PosNoDriverConstructorPart 1Part 2Part 3Grid 1 22 UK Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes 1:15.210 1:15.016 1:14.902 1 2 4‡ Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:15.746 1:14.514 1:14.927 2 3 23 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 1:15.425 1:14.829 1:15.077 3 4 15 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:15.915 1:14.879 1:15.271 4 5 3‡ Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:15.340 1:15.001 1:15.437 5 6 16 Germany Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:15.094 1:14.846 1:15.455 6 7 2‡ Finland Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:15.495 1:14.809 1:15.516 7 8 14 Australia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:15.260 1:14.825 1:15.653 8 9 7 Spain Fernando Alonso Renault 1:15.898 1:15.200 1:16.009 9 10 17 Japan Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:15.930 1:15.579 1:17.344 10 11 12 Switzerland Sébastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:15.834 1:15.833 11 12 8 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr. Renault 1:16.013 1:15.837 12 13 21 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Mercedes 1:16.063 1:16.146 13 14 11 France Sébastien Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:16.120 1:16.281 14 15 20 Germany Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:16.248 1:16.545 15 16 1‡ UK Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:16.264 191 17 6 Germany Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:16.264 16 18 5 Poland Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:16.405 17 19 9 Italy Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:16.584 18 20 10 Germany Timo Glock Toyota 1:16.788 202Source:FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2009 - Qualifying Results http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2009/810/6632/ formula1.com 28 December 2015 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150122045636/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2009/810/6632/ 22 January 2015 1 1Lewis Hamilton was given a five place grid penalty for an unscheduled gearbox change following the qualifying session, as per the sporting regulations.https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/motor-racing/button-shows-soft-touch-to-savour-special-home-win-1690452.html Button shows soft touch to savour 'special' home win David Tremayne www.independent.co.uk Independent News and Media Limited 25 May 2009 29 May 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090528200930/http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/motor-racing/button-shows-soft-touch-to-savour-special-home-win-1690452.html 28 May 2009 live 2 2Timo Glock had to start from the pit lane following modifications in the car between the qualifying and the race.Monaco Grand Prix – Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli at the Bottom http://www.automobilesreview.com/auto-news/monaco-grand-prix-timo-glock-and-jarno-trulli-at-the-bottom/14093/ Zahari Mladenov Automobiles review Automobiles review 25 May 2009 18 May 2012 Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 22 UK Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes 78 1:40:44.282 1 10 2 23 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 78 +7.666 3 8 3 4 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 78 +13.442 2 6 4 3 Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari 78 +15.110 5 5 5 14 Australia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 78 +15.730 8 4 6 16 Germany Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 78 +33.586 6 3 7 7 Spain Fernando Alonso Renault 78 +37.839 9 2 8 11 France Sébastien Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 78 +1:03.142 14 1 9 21 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Mercedes 78 +1:05.040 13 10 10 Germany Timo Glock Toyota 77 +1 lap 20 11 6 Germany Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 77 +1 lap 16 12 1 UK Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 77 +1 lap 19 13 9 Italy Jarno Trulli Toyota 77 +1 lap 18 14 20 Germany Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 77 +1 lap 15 15 17 Japan Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 76 Accident 10 Ret Retired 2 Finland Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 51 Accident 7 Ret Retired 5 Poland Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 28 Brakes 17 Ret Retired 15 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 15 Accident 4 Ret Retired 8 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr. Renault 10 Collision 12 Ret Retired 12 Switzerland Sébastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 10 Collision 11Source:FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2009 - Race Results http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2009/810/ formula1.com 28 December 2015 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20141124221801/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2009/810/ 24 November 2014 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Position Driver Points 10px 1 GBR Jenson Button 51 10px 2 BRA Rubens Barrichello 35 10px 3 GER Sebastian Vettel 23 10px 4 AUS Mark Webber 19.5 10px 5 ITA Jarno Trulli 14.5Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/2009/monaco/championnat.aspx Monaco 2009 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 19 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Position Constructor Points 10px 1 GBR Brawn-Mercedes 86 10px 2 AUT Red Bull-Renault 42.5 10px 3 JPN Toyota 26.5 10px 3 4 ITA Ferrari 17 10px 1 5 GBR McLaren-Mercedes 13Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. See also 2009 Monaco GP2 Series round References External links Jenson Button wins 2009 Monaco Grand Prix Monaco Grand Prix 2009 2009 Spanish Grand Prix 2009 Turkish Grand Prix 2008 Monaco Grand Prix 2010 Monaco Grand Prix Monaco Grand Prix Category:Monaco Grand Prix Grand Prix Monaco Grand Prix