Japan F1 – 2009 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix Highlights, Results

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2009 Formula 1 Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix 2009 Winners Results, Highlights

Sebastian Vettel wins Japanese GP 2009

japan formula 1 2009 results

Race Date: 04 Oct 2009
Number of Laps: 53
Circuit Length: 5.807 km
Race Distance: 307.573 km
Lap Record: 1:31.540 -- K. Raikkonen (2005)

The Japanese Grand Prix 2009 will zoom away the racetrack of Suzuka circuit on 4th October and this event is the 15th race of the current Formula 1 season. Officially it is also the 21st race here, as the F1 first time featured at Suzuka in 1987.

Fernando Alonso from Renault was the champion of Japanese Grand Prix 2008, and he also holds the record of winning the 2006 race at the Suzuka. The leading driver of this season is; however, Jenson Button leads with 15 points ahead of ahead of Brawn GP driver Rubens Barrichello.

Out of the drivers participating in this event, it will be the first time for eight drivers to be racing in Suzuka, which includes Lewis Hamilton, local racer Kazuki Nakajima, Sebastian Vettel, Adrian Sutil, Romain Grosjean, Jamie Alguersuari and Sebastian Buemi. The Suzuka track is admittedly every driver’s favorite and so all the teams and respective drivers are looking forward to heading to the Suzuka circuit, in particular Jenson Button’s and he ranks the Japanese Grand Prix as one of the three home races and looks like he is most certainly going to win the title here.

The practices of Japan F1 will be on Friday 2nd October and on Saturday 3rd October the qualifying will be there with the race being on Sunday 4th October.

2009 Japanese Grand Prix Formula 1 Results

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	15	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	53	1:28:20.443	1	10
2	9	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	53	+4.877	2	8
3	1	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	53	+6.472	3	6
4	4	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	53	+7.940	5	5
5	16	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	53	+8.793	7	4
6	6	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	53	+9.509	4	3
7	23	Rubens Barrichello	Brawn-Mercedes	53	+10.641	6	2
8	22	Jenson Button	Brawn-Mercedes	53	+11.474	10	1
9	5	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	53	+11.777	9
10	7	Fernando Alonso	Renault	53	+13.065	16
11	2	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren-Mercedes	53	+13.735	11
12	3	Giancarlo Fisichella	Ferrari	53	+14.596	14
13	20	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	53	+14.959	8
14	21	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	53	+15.734	18
15	17	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams-Toyota	53	+18.973	15
16	8	Romain Grosjean	Renault	52	+1 Lap	17
17	14	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	51	+2 Laps	19
Ret	11	Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	43	Accident	12
Ret	12	Sébastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	11	Accident	13
DNS	10	Timo Glock	Toyota		Injured

2009 Japanese Grand Prix Qualifying Race Results

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Grid
1	15	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1:30.883	1:30.341	1:32.160	1
2	9	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	1:31.063	1:30.737	1:32.220	2
3	1	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:30.917	1:30.627	1:32.395	3
4	20	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:31.386	1:31.222	1:32.466	8
5	23	Rubens Barrichello	Brawn-Mercedes	1:31.272	1:31.055	1:32.660	9
6	6	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:31.501	1:31.260	1:32.945	4
7	22	Jenson Button	Brawn-Mercedes	1:31.041	1:30.880	1:32.962	11
8	4	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:31.288	1:31.052	1:32.980	5
9	2	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren-Mercedes	1:31.499	1:31.223	No time	13
10	12	Sébastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:31.196	1:31.103	No time	14
11	16	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	1:31.286	1:31.482		6
12	7	Fernando Alonso	Renault	1:31.401	1:31.638		17
13	5	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:31.417	1:32.341		7
14	10	Timo Glock	Toyota	1:31.550	No time		19
15	11	Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:31.571	No time		10
16	3	Giancarlo Fisichella	Ferrari	1:31.704			12
17	17	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams-Toyota	1:31.718			15
18	8	Romain Grosjean	Renault	1:32.073			16
19	21	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	1:32.087			18
20	14	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	No time			20