2009 Malaysian Grand Prix

September 2014 February 2020 F1 Malaysia Malaysian http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/pressreleases/f1releases/2009/Pages/f1_preview_mal09.aspx Malaysian Grand Prix – Preview 1 April 2009 Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile 4 April 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090406002200/http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/pressreleases/f1releases/2009/Pages/f1_preview_mal09.aspx 6 April 2009 dead 5 April 2009 2 17 Sepang.svg 2009 Formula 1 Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix Sepang International CircuitSepang, Selangor, Malaysia Permanent racing facility 3.444 5.543 31 106.772 171.833 56 192.879 310.408 Dry start, with heavy rain and thunderstorm/monsoon later 97,368 (Weekend)https://www.racefans.net/2017/02/08/are-tickets-too-dear-attendance-fell-at-some-tracks-in-2016/ Are tickets too dear? Crowds fell at some tracks in 2016 8 February 2017 12 February 2020 Keith Collantine racefans.net Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes 1.35.181 United Kingdom Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes 1:36.641 18 United Kingdom Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes United Kingdom Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber Germany Timo Glock Toyota Germany MAL 2009 Chinese Grand Prix 2009 Australian Grand Prix The 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix (formally the 2009 Formula 1 Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix)http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/malaysia_806/circuit_diagram.html https://web.archive.org/web/20091126004039/http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/malaysia_806/circuit_diagram.html dead 26 November 2009 Malaysia Formula1.com 20 December 2020 was a Formula One motor race held on 5 April 2009 at the Sepang International Circuit in Sepang, Malaysia. It was the second race of the 2009 FIA Formula One World Championship. The race was due to be contested over 56 laps but was stopped after 31 laps due to torrential rain. Jenson Button, driving for the Brawn GP team, was declared the winner, having started from pole position. Nick Heidfeld was classified second for BMW Sauber with Timo Glock third for Toyota. As the race did not reach the required 75% distance (42 laps) for full points to be awarded, half-points were given instead, for only the fifth time in Formula One history and the first since the 1991 Australian Grand Prix and the last for 12 years until the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix.http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKL513282820090405 https://web.archive.org/web/20200919195103/https://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKL513282820090405 dead 19 September 2020 Button wins Malaysian GP cut short by rain Baldwin Alan 5 April 2009 Reuters Thomas Reuters Corporate 5 April 2009http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article6039351.ece Jenson Button wins abandoned Malaysian Grand Prix 5 April 2009 Times Online Times Newspapers Ltd 5 April 2009 London Edward Gorman Kuala LumpurSeptember 2024 medicmedic The race distance of 171.833 km mi on was the fifth-shortest ever covered in a World Championship Grand Prix.http://www.statsf1.com/default.aspx?from=/statistiques/gp/kms/lemoins.aspx%3FLG=2 Statistics: Kms, The less 5 April 2009 statsf1.com 5 April 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20201023020355/https://www.statsf1.com/default.aspx?from=/statistiques/gp/kms/lemoins.aspx?LG=2 23 October 2020 live dmy Brawn GP became only the second constructor to win their first two World Championship Grands Prix since Alfa Romeo won the first two ever, in 1950.Whyatt Chris 5 April 2009 Classy Button wins abandoned race https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7984270.stm BBC Sport BBC 5 April 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090407041833/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7984270.stm 7 April 2009 live Report Background thumb|left|On the Thursday before the race, Lewis Hamilton was disqualified from the preceding Australian Grand Prix for misleading the stewards. After winning the season-opening Australian Grand Prix held one week earlier, Jenson Button led the Drivers' Championship by two points from his teammate Rubens Barrichello and by four points from Jarno Trulli. Trulli's teammate Timo Glock was fourth and Fernando Alonso completed the top five.http://fialive.fiacommunications.com/en-GB/sport/championships/f1/Pages/ChampionshipClassification.aspx 2009 FIA Formula One World Championship - Drivers Provisional Classification Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile 5 April 2009 5 April 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090716171918/http://fialive.fiacommunications.com/en-GB/sport/championships/f1/Pages/ChampionshipClassification.aspx 16 July 2009 dead dmy Brawn GP led the Constructors' Championship by 7 points from Toyota and by 14 points from Renault. Williams and Toro Rosso were fourth and fifth. The race start time was moved forward two hours, from 17:00 local time (09:00 UTC) to 15:00 local time (07:00 UTC). However, the organisers turned down the possibility of holding a night race, in line with the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, for budgetary reasons.http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-3536959.cms Malaysia rules out night race next year 28 September 2009 AFP, The Times of India Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd 5 April 2009January 2016 Practice and qualifying "This morning we had a problem with the KERS, which cost us a bit of time, but we managed to make up for most of it in the afternoon. We had felt that the situation here could be different to Melbourne, but it is still too early to say where we are up against the opposition. What we can be sure of is that when the car runs trouble-free, we are competitive. We hope we can do a good job in tomorrow's qualifying." Kimi Räikkönen, after his incident in the first practice session, and after setting the fastest lap in the second practice session.http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2009/4/9125.html formula1.com Friday practice – selected team and driver quotes 3 April 2009 5 April 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090406063159/http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2009/4/9125.html 6 April 2009 dead 40% right thumb|left|Jenson Button took his second pole position of the season for Brawn GP. Three practice sessions were held before the race; the first was held on Friday morning and the second on Friday afternoon. Both sessions lasted 1 hour and 30 minutes with weather conditions dry throughout. The third session was held on Saturday morning and lasted an hour, and was also dry throughout.http://argent.fia.com/web/fia-public.nsf/B875CF540CCF75E5C125758300329A2B/$FILE/1-2009%20F1%20SPORTING%20REGULATIONS%20(Showing%20Alterations)%2024-03-2009.pdf 2009 Formula One Sporting Regulations 24 March 2009 FIA 5 April 2009 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090407075453/http://argent.fia.com/web/fia-public.nsf/B875CF540CCF75E5C125758300329A2B/%24FILE/1-2009%20F1%20SPORTING%20REGULATIONS%20%28Showing%20Alterations%29%2024-03-2009.pdf 7 April 2009 Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima secured a Williams one-two in the first session with times of 1:36.260 and 1:36.305 minutes respectively. In the second session, Ferrari's Kimi Räikkönen and Felipe Massa went quickest with times of 1:35.707 and 1:35.832 minutes. After 18 laps, Räikkönen's cockpit began to billow out smoke, and though Ferrari did not give an official statement, there are reports that the car's kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) had overheated.https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7980532.stm Raikkonen tops Malaysia practice BBC Sport BBC 3 April 2009 3 April 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090406034314/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7980532.stm 6 April 2009 live Jenson Button took Brawn's second consecutive pole ahead of Jarno Trulli's Toyota.http://www.itv-f1.com/news_article.aspx?id=45471 Button storms to pole again in Malaysia ITV F1 ITV plc 4 April 2009 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090405102704/http://www.itv-f1.com/news_article.aspx?id=45471 5 April 2009 27 January 2016 Rubens Barrichello qualified fourth in the other Brawn (third when Vettel's penalty was taken into consideration), but was demoted five places to eighth after a gearbox change. An error in strategy meant that Massa failed to make it through Q1. In an interview to Rede Globo, the driver said that he and the team thought the initial time posted was enough to qualify for the second session, and refrained from recording additional times to spare the car's engine. However, this was not the case, and Massa was left in 16th place.http://globoesporte.globo.com/Esportes/Noticias/Formula_1/0,,MUL1073104-15011,00-ERRO+DE+ESTRATEGIA+DEIXA+MASSA+EM.html Erro de estratégia deixa Massa em 16º pt Strategy error leaves Massa in 16th GloboEsporte.com Rede Globo 4 April 2009 5 April 2009 https://archive.today/20120710083400/http://globoesporte.globo.com/Esportes/Noticias/Formula_1/0,,MUL1073104-15011,00-ERRO+DE+ESTRATEGIA+DEIXA+MASSA+EM.html 10 July 2012 live https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7983093.stm Massa admits qualifying error BBC Sport BBC 4 April 2009 5 April 2009 Race thumb|right|Jenson Button took pole position on the starting grid, but Nico Rosberg (in fourth place) made the best start and led for the first time in his career, into the first corner. thumb|left|Robert Kubica retired on the second lap when his engine failed. thumb|right|Photograph showing the correct positions of Jenson Button, Nick Heidfeld and Timo Glock on the last completed lap Off the line, there was a clean getaway by all drivers, apart from Robert Kubica, who was forced to retire from engine problems after the first lap. Williams' Nico Rosberg moved from fourth on the grid to lead into the first corner, followed by Jarno Trulli and Fernando Alonso, who had used his KERS system to good effect to move up from tenth; Jenson Button made a poor start in his Brawn and was down to fourth. Heading into turn five, McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen ran wide onto the track's 'marbles' (fragments of degraded tyre rubber), and spun into early retirement.https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7984059.stm Malaysian Grand Prix as it happened Cheese Caroline 5 April 2009 BBC Sport https://web.archive.org/web/20090409164534/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7984059.stm 9 April 2009 live 2 March 2019http://live.autosport.com/commentary.php/id/77 As it happened: Race day at Sepang Hughes Emlyn Creighton Geoff 5 April 2009 Autosport https://web.archive.org/web/20090407140931/http://live.autosport.com/commentary.php/id/77 7 April 2009 dead 2 March 2019 After a slow start, Button caught and passed the heavier Renault of Alonso at turn thirteen for third place and set off after Trulli. Rosberg and Trulli stopped for fuel earlier than Button, who was able to pass them during the first round of pit stops and take the lead. Evidence of rain was barely noticed, but Kimi Räikkönen pitted to switch from dry to full wet tyres. However, his gamble did not pay off, as rain did not come as early as predicted, and he was forced to slow down significantly to delay the rapid wear of the wet tyres. (Without standing water on the track, wet tyres will not maintain structural integrity at high speeds, and will rapidly degrade over the course of a few laps.) By lap 19, rain had started to fall and most of the drivers pitted for wet tyres. However, at this stage there was no standing water on the track, and so the wet tyres started to wear out very quickly. Timo Glock had been using intermediate tyres which were better suited to the conditions and moved rapidly up to third place. The other drivers followed this example and switched to intermediate tyres as well, which the majority of the field stayed on until lap 31 when the downpour finally reached the whole track, and drivers pitted for wet tyres once again. The conditions were proven to be so treacherous that Sebastien Buemi and Sebastian Vettel (who was in 8th position) had both spun out into retirement by lap 31 despite them being on the wet tyres right before the race was stopped. Due to the torrential rain, the race was stopped on the 33rd lap and the results were taken from the classification at the end of lap 31 (the penultimate fully completed in accordance with sporting regulation 42.8http://argent.fia.com/web/fia-public.nsf/B875CF540CCF75E5C125758300329A2B/$FILE/1-2009%20F1%20SPORTING%20REGULATIONS%20(Showing%20Alterations)%2024-03-2009.pdf 2009 Formula One Sporting Regulations Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile 24 March 2009 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090407075453/http://argent.fia.com/web/fia-public.nsf/B875CF540CCF75E5C125758300329A2B/%24FILE/1-2009%20F1%20SPORTING%20REGULATIONS%20%28Showing%20Alterations%29%2024-03-2009.pdf 7 April 2009 27 January 2016 If the race cannot be resumed the results will be taken at the end of the penultimate lap before the lap during which the signal to suspend the race was given. ). Half-points were subsequently awarded to the top eight. The race was the fifth out of six races in Formula One to be abandoned before 75% distance: the others were the 1975 Spanish and Austrian Grands Prix, the 1984 Monaco Grand Prix, the 1991 Australian Grand Prix and the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix. Button took his second victory of the season and five points, and it was the first time he had won back to back victories and his third career victory. The victory also meant that Brawn GP became the first team since Alfa Romeo in 1950 to win their first two Grands Prix. Nick Heidfeld was classified second ahead of Toyota's Timo Glock. Heidfeld was the first driver to take a podium position with a KERS-equipped car. Some years later, James Vowles (Brawn's head of strategy) revealed that rain water got into the electronics in Button's steering wheel after the race was stopped, and his car would not have been able to continue if the race had restarted.https://racingnews365.com/engineers-reveal-buttons-brawn-failed-during-malaysia-red-flag Engineers reveal Button's Brawn failed during Malaysia red flag RacingNews365 8 April 2021 2 October 2025 Post-race thumb|left|Trulli, Barrichello, Hamilton and Webber stop their cars on the start-finish straight following the decision to red-flag the race. thumb|left|Crowd members leaving the stands after the race was abandoned. The drivers generally backed the decision to abandon the race, citing diminishing visibility (due to the later starting time) as well as the heavy rain.https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7984468.stm Drivers back Malaysia abandonment BBC Sport BBC 5 May 2009 5 May 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090408081148/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7984468.stm 8 April 2009 live "The visibility is nothing, [we] could have a serious accident if we restart." — Fernando Alonso before the race was officially called off "It was impossible to drive out there, it was very, very dangerous. It's the most dangerous conditions I have ever raced in," — Lewis Hamilton "It was way too wet out there and the decision to call it off was correct. I would obviously love to have the 10 points, but this is the best we could have done, I think, and realistically it was the right thing to do. I'm sure some people will say 'we didn't see the whole race and it's disappointing' but you have to think about the safety sometimes. When the safety car is pulling away at 20 seconds a lap, you know that it's too wet for an F1 car." — Jenson Button "It's dark now at seven o'clock so it was the right call not to make the re-start," — Mark Webber (a director of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association) Officials in Malaysia also confirmed that they would review the start time of the 2010 Malaysian Grand Prix. Mokhzani Mahathir, chairman of the Sepang International Circuit, said he consulted Bernie Ecclestone after the race and they had agreed to look at the timings. However, Ecclestone revealed he had no qualms about the schedule, stating: "I just have regrets about the rain, I don't see anything wrong with the start time, we just didn't know about the rain."https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7985631.stm Malaysia start time under review BBC Sport BBC 6 April 2009 6 April 2009 Mokhzani suggested the possibility of implementing a lighting system (similar to that used in the Singapore Grand Prix) to illuminate the circuit in future races. Classification Cars that used the KERS system are marked with "‡" Qualifying PosNoDriverConstructorPart 1Part 2Part 3Grid122United Kingdom Jenson ButtonBrawn-Mercedes1:35.0581:33.7841:35.181129Italy Jarno TrulliToyota1:34.7451:33.9901:35.2732315Germany Sebastian VettelRed Bull-Renault1:34.9351:34.2761:35.518131423Brazil Rubens BarrichelloBrawn-Mercedes1:34.6811:34.3871:35.65182510Germany Timo GlockToyota1:34.9071:34.2581:35.6903616Germany Nico RosbergWilliams-Toyota1:35.0831:34.5471:35.7504714Australia Mark WebberRed Bull-Renault1:35.0271:34.2221:35.797585Poland Robert KubicaBMW Sauber1:35.1661:34.5621:36.106694‡Finland Kimi RäikkönenFerrari1:35.4761:34.4561:36.1707107‡Spain Fernando AlonsoRenault1:35.2601:34.7061:37.6599116‡Germany Nick HeidfeldBMW Sauber1:35.1101:34.769101217Japan Kazuki NakajimaWilliams-Toyota1:35.3411:34.78811131‡UK Lewis HamiltonMcLaren-Mercedes1:35.2801:34.90512142‡Finland Heikki KovalainenMcLaren-Mercedes1:35.0231:34.924141511France Sébastien BourdaisToro Rosso-Ferrari1:35.5071:35.43115163‡Brazil Felipe MassaFerrari1:35.64216178‡Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr.Renault1:35.708171821Italy Giancarlo FisichellaForce India-Mercedes1:35.908181920Germany Adrian SutilForce India-Mercedes1:35.951192012Switzerland Sébastien BuemiToro Rosso-Ferrari1:36.10720Source:2009 FORMULA 1 PETRONAS MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX - Qualifying Results https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2009/races/844/malaysia/qualifying.html formula1.com 12 September 2018 1 1Sebastian Vettel received a 10-place grid penalty for causing an avoidable accident involving Robert Kubica at the Australian Grand Prix.https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7970668.stm Vettel gets 10-place grid penalty BBC Sport BBC 29 March 2009 3 April 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090401135830/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7970668.stm 1 April 2009 live 2 2Rubens Barrichello received a 5-place grid penalty for a gearbox change.http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/74204 Barrichello gets 5 place penalty autosport.com Haymarket Publications 3 April 2009 3 April 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090406063851/http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/74204 6 April 2009 live dmy Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 22 United Kingdom Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes 31 55:30.622 1 5 2 6‡ Germany Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 31 + 22.722 10 4 3 10 Germany Timo Glock Toyota 31 + 23.513 3 3 4 9 Italy Jarno Trulli Toyota 31 + 46.173 2 2.5 5 23 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 31 + 47.360 8 2 6 14 Australia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 31 + 52.333 5 1.5 7 1‡ United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 31 + 1:00.733 12 1 8 16 Germany Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 31 + 1:11.576 4 0.5 9 3‡ Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari 31 + 1:16.932 16 10 11 France Sébastien Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 31 + 1:42.164 15 11 7‡ Spain Fernando Alonso Renault 31 + 1:49.422 9 12 17 Japan Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 31 + 1:56.130 11 13 8‡ Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr. Renault 31 + 1:56.713 17 14 4‡ Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 31 + 2:22.841 7 15 15 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 30 Spun Off 13 16 12 Switzerland Sébastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 30 Spun Off 20 17 20 Germany Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 30 + 1 Lap 19 18 21 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Mercedes 29 Spun Off 18 Ret Retired 5 Poland Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1 Engine 6 Ret Retired 2‡ Finland Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 0 Spun Off 14Source:2009 FORMULA 1 PETRONAS MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX - Race Results https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2009/races/844/malaysia.html formula1.com 11 September 2018 12 September 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180912092028/https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2009/races/844/malaysia.html dead Scheduled for 56 laps but stopped early due to heavy rain and then not resumed due to darkness. Half points awarded. Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Position Driver Points 10px 1 GBR Jenson Button 15 10px 2 BRA Rubens Barrichello 10 10px 3 ITA Jarno Trulli 8.5 10px 4 GER Timo Glock 8 10px 5 5 GER Nick Heidfeld 4Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/2009/malaisie/championnat.aspx Malaysia 2009 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 19 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Position Constructor Points 10px 1 GBR Brawn-Mercedes 25 10px 2 JPN Toyota 16.5 10px 4 3 GER BMW Sauber 4 10px 1 4 FRA Renault 4 10px 1 5 GBR Williams-Toyota 3.5Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. See also 2009 Malaysian GP2 Asia Series round References External links Jenson Button wins half of the 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix points Official Malaysian Grand Prix results from FIA Formula1.com (archived) Malaysian Grand Prix 2009 2009 Australian Grand Prix 2009 Chinese Grand Prix 2008 Malaysian Grand Prix 2010 Malaysian Grand Prix 2 45 39 N 101 44 18 E source:kolossus-nowiki title Category:Malaysian Grand Prix Malaysia Grand Prix Malaysian Grand Prix