2009
2009
Formula One teams
Scuderia
Ferrari
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
1. Felipe Massa(1-10), Luca Badoer(11-12), Fisichella(13-17)
1. Lewis Hamilton
2. Kimi Räikkönen 2.
Heikki Kovalainen
BMW Sauber pic1
pic2 pic3
pic4 pic5 Brawn
GP (Mercedes) <formerly Honda> pic1
1. Nick Heidfeld 1.
Jenson Button
2. Robert Kubica 2.
Rubens Barrichello
ING Renault F1 Force
India F1 (Mercedes)
1. Fernando Alonso
1.
Adrian Sutil
2. Nelson Piquet 2.
Giancarlo Fisichella (1-12), Vitantonio Liuzzi (13-17)
Williams Toyota
Scuderia Toro Rosso (Ferrari)
1. Nico Rosberg 1.
Sebastien Bourdais (rounds 1-9), Jaime Alguersuari (rounds 10-17)
2. Kazuki Nakajima
2. Sébastien Buemi
Red Bull Racing (Renault) pic1
pic2
pic3
pic4
pic5
pic6
1. Mark Webber
2. Sebastian Vettel
Toyota
1. Jarno Trulli
2. Timo Glock (rounds 1-14), Kamui Kobayashi (rounds
16-17)
2009
F1 schedule
01. Australian Grand Prix • Melbourne • 2009.03.29
» Button, Barrichello,
Trulli
02. Malaysian Grand Prix • Kuala Lumpur • 2009.04.05
» Button,
Heidfeld, Glock
03. Chinese Grand Prix • Shanghai • 2009.04.19
» Vettel,
Webber, Button
04. Bahrain Grand Prix • Sakhir • 2009.04.26
» Button, Vettel,
Trulli
05. Spanish Grand Prix • Catalunya • 2009.05.10
» Button, Barrichello,
Webber
06. Grand Prix of Monaco • Monte
Carlo • 2009.05.24
» Button, Barrichello,
Räikkönen
07. Turkish Grand Prix • Istanbul • 2009.06.07
» Button, Webber,
Vettel
08. British Grand Prix • Silverstone • 2009.06.21
» Vettel,
Webber, Barrichello
09. German Grand Prix • Nürburgring • 2009.07.12
» Webber, Vettel,
Massa
10. Hungarian Grand Prix • Hungaroring,
Budapest • 2009.07.26
» Hamilton,
Räikkönen, Webber
11. European Grand Prix • Valencia • 2009.08.23
» Barrichello,
Hamilton, Räikkönen
12. Belgian Grand Prix • Spa-Francorchamps • 2009.08.30
» Räikkönen,
, , ,
13. Italian Grand Prix • Monza •
2009.09.13
»
14. Singapore Grand Prix • Singapore • 2009.09.27
»
15. Japanese Grand Prix • Suzuka • 2009.10.04
»
16. Brazilian Grand Prix • Interlagos, Sao Paulo • 2009.10.18
» Webber,
17. Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi • Yas Island
• 2009.11.01
» Vettel, Webber,
Button
Canada & France are off the schedule for 2009
2009 Driver's Championship
95 Jenson Button
(1)
84 Sebastian Vettel (2)
77 Rubens Barrichello (3)
69½ Mark Webber (4)
24 Kimi Räikkönen ( )
29.5 Nico Rosberg ( )
27 Lewis Hamilton ( )
22.5 Jarno Trulli
22 Felipe Massa (11)
16 Timo Glock
13 Fernando Alonso
22 Heikki Kovalainen
6 Nick Heidfeld
3 Sebastien Buemi
2 Robert Kubica
2 Sebastien Bourdais
?
?
0 Luca Badoer (25)
2009 Constructor's Championship
172 Brawn Grand Prix-Mercedes (1)
153.5 Red Bull Racing-Renault (2)
71 McLaren-Mercedes ( )
70 Scuderia Ferrari ( )
59.5 Toyota ( )
36 BMW Sauber
34.5 Williams-Toyota
26 Renault (8)
13 Force India-Mercedes
8 Scuderia Toro Rosso-Ferrari (10)
round 1.
Inside Grand Prix - Australia
Preview 3/27 1:00am
• Nico Rosberg reviews the Albert
Park Grand Prix Circuit while blindfolded
• the Honda team is now Brawn GP
• rule changes (aerodynamics, KERS,
slicks) explained by Sebastian Vettel
Inside Grand Prix - 2009 Grand Preview 3/29 1:00am
• overview of teams
• rule changes explained by Sebastian
Vettel
Formula One Practice - Australian Grand Prix 3/27 1:30am
• Diffuser issue explained -> Brawn
GP, Williams Toyota,
& Toyota may have an advantage
• USF1 team will be on the grids in
2010 with two American drivers
• KERS explained -> Ferrari, Renault,
McLaren & BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld are using it
• diffusers photographed for comparison
Formula One Qualifying - Australian Grand Prix 3/28 2:00am
• Q1 1. Rubens Barrichello,
2. Jenson Button, 3. Mark Webber
• Q2 1. Rubens Barrichello,
2. Jenson Button, 3. Sebastian Vettel
• Q3 Button,
Barrichello, 3. Sebastian Vettel
Formula One Racing - Australian Grand Prix 3/29 1:30am
• lap 17 - Kazuki Nakajima crashes
into wall with no other cars near him, bringing out the safety car
• lap 24 - Nelson Piquet spins out
on cold tires
• lap 55 - Robert Kubica & Sebastian
Vettel crash with 3 laps remaining, bringing out the safety car again
• 1. Jenson
Button, 2. Rubens Barrichello, 3. Jarno Trulli
Formula One Debrief - Episode 29 4/4 12:30am, episode
29
• new, slick tires - the supersoft
and medium compounds were used for the race
• first
turn - Webber cuts off Barrichello, Kovalainen hits Barrichello and then
Webber; Kovalainen out of race
• Rubens Barrichello runs into Kimi
Räikkönen's rear tire, forcing Kimi's Ferrari to pit for a new tire
• Lewis Hamilton disqualified from
4th place for lying to the race stewards
round 2.
Inside Grand Prix - Malaysia Preview 4/4 1:30am, episode
12
• Nico Rosberg discusses racing at
the Sepang International Circuit
• profile of Kimi Räikkönen
•
race preparations, logistics, travel; Formula One drivers start by racing karts
Formula One Practice - Malaysian Grand Prix 4/3 2:00am
• protests over the diffusers used
by Brawn, Williams, and Toyota have been denied
Formula One Qualifying - Malaysian Grand Prix 4/4 5:00am
• Kimi's Ferrari has a KERS-related
fire
• Q3 1. Jenson Button, 2. Jarno
Trulli, 3. Sebastian Vettel
Formula One Racing - Malaysian Grand Prix 4/5 4:30am
• Ferrari puts Kimi's car on full
wet tires during pit at lap 38/56 (lap 18), hoping it begins to rain (it doesn't,
for 10+ laps), tires don't last
• heavy rain forces the race to be
stopped, and then it becomes too dark for the race to be restarted
• 1. Jenson Button, 2. Nick Heidfeld,
3. Timo Glock
Formula One Debrief - Malaysian Grand Prix 4/17 11:00pm,
episode 30
• 1/2 points awarded, due to rain-shortened
race
• race started at 5pm local time
for European television, which caused the early ending due to darkness
round 3.
Inside Grand Prix - China
Preview 4/18 1:30am, episode 37
• Nico Rosberg reviews the Shanghai
International Circuit while blindfolded
• profile of Lewis Hamilton
Formula One Practice
- China 4/17 2:00am
•
Formula One Qualifying
- Chinese Grand Prix 4/18 2:00am
•
•
Q3 Vettel, 2.
Mark Webber, 3. Jenson Button
Formula One Racing - Chinese Grand Prix 4/19 2:30am
• race started in rain on full wet
tires behind safety car, for first 7 laps
• Kimi Raikkonen had engine trouble
early in the race
• 1. Sebastian Vettel, 2. Mark Webber,
3. Jenson Button
Formula One Debrief - Chinese Grand Prix 4/24 12:00am,
episode 13
•
•
round 4.
Inside Grand Prix - Bahrain Preview 4/24 8:30am, episode
34
• Nico Rosberg and Christian Danner
discuss the Bahrain International Circuit
• profile of Sébastien Buemi
Formula One Practice
- Bahrain 4/24 7:00am
• Nick Mason was at Friday practice
• Nico Rosberg, Fernando Alonso and
Jarno Trulli were fastest
Formula One Qualifying - Bahrain 4/25 7:00am
• Nick Mason was at qualifying
• Q1 Vettel, Trulli, Hamilton
• Q2 Sebastian Vettel, Timo Glock,
Jarno Trulli
• Q3 Jarno Trulli, Timo Glock, Sebastian
Vettel *$2,000,000,000 to get to here. -Steve
Matchett
• woman smoking a hookah during the
credits, at the very end of qualifying
Formula One Racing
- Grand Prix of Bahrain 4/26 7:30am
• Eric Clapton & Robert Plant
were at the race
• tire strategy costs Toyota their
first race win
•
Kimi passed Massa in turn 1, ended up in 6th place, Massa ended
up in 18th?, a lap down
• alcohol-free champagne must be used
on the podium in the Kingdom of Bahrain
• 1. Jenson Button, 2. Sebastian Vettel,
3. Jarno Trulli
Formula One Debrief - Grand Prix of Bahrain 5/9 12:00am,
episode 33
• Toyota had the first 2 spots on
the grid, and only managed a 3rd place finish
round 5.
Inside Grand Prix - Spain
Preview 5/8 9:30am, episode 73
• Nico Rosberg reviews the Circuit
de Catalunya while blindfolded
• profile of Fernando Alonso
•
the modern F1 steering wheel, KERS, Stirling Moss
Formula One Practice - Spanish Grand Prix 5/8 8:00am
• the hard & soft tire compounds
will be used this weekend
• Sebastien Buemi - rear brake fire
• Nico
Rosberg was fastest
Formula One Qualifying - Spanish Grand Prix 5/10
•
• Q3 1. Button,
2. Vettel, 3. Barrichello, 4. Massa,
5. Webber, 6. Glock, 7. Trulli, 8. Alonso, 9. Rosberg, 10. Kubica, 11. Nakajima,
12. Piquet
Formula One Racing
- Spaniush Grand Prix 5/11
• Rubens Barrichello screwed out of
first place by Jenson Button and the Brawn Grand Prix team, tricked him in to
thinking a 3 stop strategy was best(!)
• Massa loses a wheel spat in lap
26 of 66, then nearly runs out of fuel at the end of the race
• 1. Jenson Button, 2. Rubens Barrichello,
3. Mark Webber
Formula One Debrief - Spanish Grand Prix 5/23 12:00am,
episode 21
• turn 1 collision takes out several
cars
• Kimi KERS failure & then retires
car on lap 19
•
Massa's car looses it's wheel spat in lap 40, then in the final 12 laps,
running very low on fuel allows Alonso to pass in final lap, barely finishes
race
round 6.
Inside Grand Prix - Grand Prix of Monaco 5/23 2:30am,
episode 24
• Nico Rosberg and Christian Danner
discuss the Monaco Street Circuit
• David Couthard “interviews”
Mark Webber & Sebastian
Vettel
• Mercedes customers for their F1
engines now includes the Brawn Grand Prix team
• former Toro Rosso test driver Neel
Jani drives a F1 car thru a newly constructed 4.5 km tunnel in Switzerland
Formula One Practice
- Monaco 5/23 3:00am
• Robert Kubica's engine catches fire
- he doesn't get any laps in during Thursday Practice 2
• Nico Rosberg is fastest, followed
by Lewis Hamilton, Rubens Barrichello, & Jenson Button
Formula One Qualifying - Grand Prix of Monaco 5/23 8:00am
•
Lewis Hamilton crashes
during Q1, bringing out a red flag. He ends up 16th on the grid.
• Q1 Nico Rosberg, Jenson Button,
Mark Webber
• Q2 Kimi *, Heikki Kovalainen, Mark
Webber (* Kimi Räikkönen's FTD time of 1:14.514 is > 100mph average)
•
Q3 Jenson Button,
Kimi Raikkonen, Rubens Barrichello
Formula One Racing
- Grand Prix of Monaco 5/24 7:30am
• pre-race show features a look at
Red Bull Racing's F1 transmission
• Sébastien Buemi runs
into the back of Nelson Piquet - both are out of race
• Sebastian Vettel hits tire wall
- out of race
• Heikki Kovalainen hits wall - out
of race
• Kazuki Nakajima hits wall - out
of race
• 1. Jenson Button, 2. Rubens Barrichello,
3. Kimi Räikkönen
Formula One Debrief - Grand Prix of Monaco 6/6 1:00am,
episode 20
• Jenson Button pulled away from Rubens
Barrichello, especially in laps 9-15
•
•
round 7.
Inside Grand Prix - Turkish
Grand Prix 6/6 12:30am, episode 96
• Nico Rosberg reviews the Istanbul
Otodrom while blindfolded
• profile of Felipe Massa
Formula One Practice - Istanbul, Turkey 6/5 7:00am
• the Hard and Soft tires will be
used this weekend
• Istanbul Otodrom is 1 of 4 anti-clockwise
circuits on the calendar, with Brazil, Singapore and Abu Dhabi
•
Heikki Kovalainen,
Fernando Alonso and Robert Kubica were fastest during Practice Session 2
Formula One Qualifying
- Istanbul Otodrom, Turkey 6/7 3:30am
• P16 Lewis Hamilton
• Q2 Vettel, Trulli, Button
•
Q3 Vettel, Button,
Barrichello
Formula One Racing - Turkish Grand Prix 6/7 3:00pm
• Rubens
Barrichello has a bad start
• Jenson Button passes Vettel early
when Vettel makes a mistake and runs wide thru turn 10
• Rubens and Heikki put on a good
show racing each other, Rubens spins
• 1. Jenson Button, 2. Mark Webber,
3. Sebastian Vettel
Formula One Debrief - Turkish Grand Prix 6/21 2:30am,
episode 90
• Vettel was on - or was switched
to - a 3 stop strategy, when 2 stops was the better choice.
• “If you can't get past
him, try to move out of his slipstream” -Renault F1 team radio
“I can not do
that” -Fernando Alonso, 2009 Turkish Grand Prix ~28:00
• spectator turn-out was low - maybe
30,000 fans, tops
round 8.
Formula One Qualifying - British Grand Prix, Silverstone, England
6/20 8:00am EST
• Q1 1. Nakajima, 2. Webber, 3. Vettel
• Adrian Sutil crashes in Q1, bringing
out a red flag with 00:24 remaining
• Q2 1. Sebastian Vettel, 2. Mark
Webber, 3. Jarno Trulli
• Q3 1. Sebastian Vettel, 2. Rubens
Barrichello, 3. Mark Webber, 4. Trulli, 5. Nakajima, 6. Button
Formula One Racing - British Grand Prix 6/21 3:00pm EST
• Williams seems to be the only team
complaining about costs - FOTA teams are all fine with the current situation
• final Grand Prix at Silverstone
Circuit, Northamptonshire, England ???
•
Kimi goes from 9th to 5th in the first turm, Massa goes from 8th to 9th
in the first turn
• @15 Fisichella puts an awesome pass
on both Heidfeld & Alonso
• @14 Kimi 5th, Massa 8th - @16 Kimi
5th Massa 9th - @25 same - ??? - @1:03 Massa 5th Kimi 7th -
•
Kimi got stuck behind Trulli after his 1st pit stop
• @54 Bourdais runs into the back
of Kovalainen, taking both cars out
• 1. Sebastian Vettel, 2. Mark Webber,
3. Rubens Barrichello 4. Massa, 5.
Rosberg, 6. Button, 7. Trulli, 8. Raikkonen
round 9.
Inside Grand Prix - Germany Preview 7/11 1:00am EST, episode
26
• profile of the 5 German F1 drivers
- Vettel, Heidfeld, Rosberg, ??, Sutil
• manufacturing race pistons
Formula One Practice - Nürburgring 7/10 8:00am
EST
•
the super-soft and medium tire compounds will be used this weekend at the Nürburgring
Grand Prix Circuit
• this will be Sebastien Bourdais'
last race with Scuderia Toro Rosso
•
Kimi's 2010 salary is $28,000,000
• fastest in Friday Practice Session
2 = 1. Lewis Hamilton, 2. Sebastian Vettel, 3. Jenson Button
Formula One Qualifying - Germany 7/11
• Q1
• Q2
•
Q3
•
Formula One Racing - German Grand Prix 7/12
•
•
• 1. Mark Webber, 2. Sebastian Vettel,
3. Felipe Massa
Formula One Debrief - German Grand Prix 7/25 12:00am
EST, episode 24
•
•
round 10.
Inside Grand Prix - Hungary Preview
• Nico Rosberg and Christian Danner
discuss the Hungaroring
• profile of Red Bull driver Mark
Webber
Formula One Practice - Hungaroring 7/24 8:00am EST
• Toro Rosso driver Sebstien Bourdais
replaced by rookie Jaime Alguersuari
•
Formula One Qualifying - Budapest, Hungary 7/25 8:00am
EST
• Q1 1. Rosberg, 2. Lewis Hamilton,
3. Webber
• Q2 1. Webber, 2. Lewis Hamilton,
3. Nakajima, 4. Sebastian Vettel, 5. Kimi,... 8. Felipe Massa
• Felipe
Massa crashed at the end of Q2 after time had expired, when a spring from
Barrichello's car hit him in the head/helmet
• Q3 1. Alonso, 2. Sebastian Vettel,
3. Mark Webber, 4. Lewis Hamilton
Formula One Racing - Hungarian Grand Prix 7/26 3:00pm
•
Placido Domingo is Bernie Eccelstone's guest on the grid
• Alonso is leading the race when
a front wheel comes
loose forcing him to retire
• Kimi comes from 7th place on the
grid to finish 2nd
• 1. Lewis Hamilton, 2. Kimi Räikkönen,
3. Mark Webber
Formula One Debrief - Hungarian Grand Prix 8/22 12:30am
EST, episode 66
• The BMW F1 team is calling it quits
after this season
• Fernando Alonso loses his right
front wheel while leading the race
• only 19 cars start the race, due
to Massa's injury
By the end of July, Massa was on
the mend, and Michael Schumacher was announced as his replacement for the
remainder of 2009
round 11.
Inside Grand Prix - European Preview 8/22 12:00am EST,
episode 16
• Nico Rosberg and Christian Danner
discuss the Valencia Street Circuit
• profile of rookie driver Jaime Alguersuari
•
on 2009.07.29, BMW Sauber F1 announced that they are shutting down the team
after this season
• Luca Badoer is in (instead of Michael
Schumacher) for Felipe Massa at Ferrari
•
Romain Grosjean takes Nelson Piquet's seat at Renault
Formula One Practice - European Grand Prix 8/21 8:00am
EST
• Friday practice session #2 at the
Valencia Street Circuit, Valencia, Spain
• the soft and super-soft tire compounds
will be used this weekend
• BMW has applied to re-enter the
championship in 2010, in order to make the team easier to sell
• Hamilton damages his car; Alonso
sends Heidfeld flying
• fastest: Alonso, Button,
Barrichello
Formula One Qualifying - Valencia 8/22
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 1. Lewis Hamilton, 2. Heikki
Kovalainen, 3. Rubens Barrichello
•
Formula One Racing - European Grand Prix 8/23 7:30am
EST
•
•
• 1. Rubens Barrichello, 2. Lewis
Hamilton, 3. Kimi Räikkönen
Formula One Debrief - European Grand Prix 8/29 12:00am
EST, episode 12009
•
•
round 12.
Inside Grand Prix - Belgium Preview 8/29 1:00am EST, episode
48
•
•
Formula One Practice - Spa-Francorchamps 8/28 8:00am
EST
• medium and soft tire compounds will
be used this weekend at Spa
• fastest: Lewis Hamilton (@
1:47.201), Timo Glock, Kimi, Webber, ...
Formula One Qualifying - Belgium 8/29 8:00am EST
• Q1 1. Fisichella, 2. Jarno Trulli,
3. Rubens Barrichello Luca Badoer spins his Ferrari
into the kitty litter
• Q2 1. Jarno Trulli, 2. Robert Kubica,
3. Vettel
•
Q3 1. Fisichella, 2. Jarno Trulli, 3. Nick Heidfeld, 4. Barrichello, 5. Robert
Kubica, 6. Kimi, 7. Timo Glock, 8. Vettel, 9. Webber, 10. Rosberg
Formula One Racing - Grand Prix of Belgium 8/30 7:30am
EST
• Racing
Per Machett - how carbon fiber parts are made
•
Rubens Barrichello - bad start; Button, Hamilton, Grosjean out in lap 1
• Alonso retired from 3rd place with
right front wheel problem
• Mark Webber drive thru penalty for
bad pit stop release; Jarno Trulli retires
• Alonso retires with left front wheel
problem; Rubens Barrichello's engine is smoking final few laps & catches
fire at end of race
• 1. Kimi Räikkönen, 2.
Fisichella, 3. Vettel, 4. Robert Kubica, 5. Nick Heidfeld, 6. Heikki Kovalainen,
7. Rubens Barrichello, 8. Nico Rosberg
Formula One Debrief - Grand Prix of Belgium 9/12 12:00am
EST, episode 26
•
•
round 13. Giancarlo Fisichella leaves Force India to go to
Scuderia Ferrari =>> to drive Felipe Massa's car for the remainder
of the 2009 season
Inside Grand Prix - Italy Preview 9/?
•
•
Formula One Practice - Italy 9/11 8:00am EST
• Autodromo Nationale de Monza, Monza,
Italy
• fastest: Adrian Sutil, Roman Grosjean,
Fernando Alonso, Heikki Kovalainen
Formula One Qualifying - Italian Grand Prix 9/12 8:00am
EST
• Q1 1. Kimi Räikkönen,
2. Lewis Hamilton, 3. Jenson Button, 4. Rubens Barrichello, 5. Kovalainen
• Q2 1. Jenson Button, 2. Lewis Hamilton,
3. Rubens Barrichello, 4. Adrian Sutil, 5. Vitantonio Liuzzi
• Q3 1. Lewis Hamilton, 2. Adrian
Sutil, 3. Kimi Räikkönen, 4. Heikki Kovalainen, 5. Rubens Barrichello
Formula One Racing - Italian Grand Prix 9/13 [rebroadcast 3/1/2010
12:00pm EST SpeedHD]
• Giancarlo Fisichella leaves Force
India to drive for Ferrari in Massa's seat
• Mark Webber hits Peter Windsor's
cameraman during pre-race grid interviews
• RPM - prototyping w/3D lithography
•
Mark Webber spun out 1st lap OUT, Robert Kubica OUT 3rd lap of
race
• 1. Rubens Barrichello, 2. Jenson
Button, 3. Kimi Räikkönen, 4. Adrian Sutil, 5. Fernando Alonso
Formula One Debrief - Italian Grand Prix 9/26 12:00am
EST, episode 23
• Giancarlo Fisichella in a Ferrari
- qualifies 14th and finishes 9th
• Kimi Räikkönen passes
Adrian Sutil in turn 1, lap 1; Mark Webber crashes in turn 2, lap 1
• Liuzzi's Force India car dies; Lewis
Hamilton crashes in final laps of race
• the Brawn Grand Prix drivers Rubens
Barrichello and Jenson Button were on 1 stop strategies, which works best at
Monza
• Lewis Hamilton, Adrian Sutil, Kimi
Räikkönen were on 2 stop strategies
• the "Renault-Flavio-Nelson
Piquet crash in Singapore 2008 to help Alonso win" fiasco is discussed
round 14.
Inside Grand Prix - Singapore Preview 9/25 9:00am EST, episode
28
• Mark Webber & Sebastian Vettel
explore Singapore
• Nico Rosberg & Christian Danner
discuss the Singapore Street Circuit
•
profile of Williams Toyota driver Nico Rosberg
• racetrack construction ~ paving
and illuminating the 5 km circuit
• Niki Lauda
talks to Lewis Hamilton about KERS
Formula One Practice - Singapore Grand Prix 9/25 9:30am
• Marina Bay Street Circuit, Marina
Bay, Singapore
• the soft & super-soft tires
will be used this weekend
• fastest = Vettel, Alonso, Kovalainen,
Heidfeld
Formula One Qualifying - Singapore 9/26 10:00am
EST
• Q1 1. Lewis Hamilton, 2. Button,
3. Raikkonen, 4. Heidfeld, 5. Rosberg, ........ 16. Sutil, 17. Alguersuari,
18. Fisichella, 19. Grosjean, 20. Liuzzi
• Q2 1. Nico Rosberg, 2. Webber, ........
11. Kaz Nakajima, 12. Jenson Button, 13. Kimi Raikkonen, 14. Seb Buemi, 15.
Jarno Trulli
• Q3 1. Hamilton, 2. Vettel, 3. Rosberg,
4. Webber, 5. Barrichello, 6. Alonso, 7. Glock, 8. Heidfeld, 9. Kubica, 10.
Kovalainen,.... 13. Kimi Raikkonen
• Rubens Barrichello crashed at the
end of Q3
Formula One Racing - Singapore Grand Prix 9/27 7:30am
EST
• explained during Pre-Race show -
Renault is disgraced by 2008.09.28 Nelson Piquet Jr. crashing on purpose to
bring out safety car to Alonso's benefit
• RPM - small parts machining
• Nico Rosberg might have finished
2nd, but he crossed the line while exiting the pits, stewards give him a drive-thru
penalty
• Mark Webber is penalized for crossing
the racing line, forced to let Fernando Alonso (and Timo Glock) pass
• a piece of Timo Glock's car came
off, laying in the middle of the track for several laps causing a local yellow
• Adrian Sutil taps Nick Heidfeld,
ending Heidfeld's race & bringing out safety car
• Jaime
Alguesuari pulls away from the Toro Rosso pits with the fuel hose still attached
• 1. Lewis Hamilton, 2. Timo Glock,
3. Fernando Alonso, .....10. Kimi Raikkonen
Formula One Debrief - Singapore Grand Prix 10/2 11:30pm
EST, episode 27
• Lewis Hamilton drove a perfect race
• Adrian Sutil fined $20,000 for incident
with Nick Heidfeld
•
Sebastian Vettel loses his left side mirror, then later in the race exceeds
the pit lane speed limit, then loses diffuser vanes going over curbing
round 15.
Inside Grand Prix - Japan Preview 10/2 11:30pm EST,
episode 12
• if Jenson Button finishs 4th or
better, he will win the 2009 Driver's Championship
• Nico Rosberg & Christian Danner
discuss the Suzuka Curcuit
•
profile of AT&T Williams' driver Kazuki Nakajima
Formula One Practice - Japan 10/2 1:00am EST
•
the hard and soft tire compounds (skipping medium) will be used at Suzuka
• Kimi Räikkönen is going
to be replaced by Fernando Alonso (3 years @ $25M USD/year) at Ferrari in 2010
• it rained during the entire Friday
Practice session 2 at the Suzuka Circuit - most drivers sat out the session
Formula One Qualifying - Suzuka, Japan 10/3 1:00am EST
• Q1 1. Vettel, 2. Lewis Hamilton,
3. Jenson Button, .... 6. Kimi Raikkonen
• Q2 1. Vettel, Jarno Trulli, Lewis
Hamilton, Adrian Sutil,
• Jaime Alguesuari, Timo Glock and
Sebastian Buemi all crashed at different times during Q2
•
Q3 1. S Vettel, 2. Lewis Hamilton, 2. Jarno Trulli, 3. Jenson Button, 4. Kimi
Raikkonen
Formula One Racing - Japan 10/4 12:30am EST
• RPM - F1 transmissions
•
• 1. S Vettel, 2. Jarno Trulli, 3.
Lewis Hamilton, 4. Kimi Raikkonen, 5. Nico Rosberg, 6. Nick Heidfeld
Formula One Debrief - Grand Prix of Japan 10/18 12:00am
EST, episode 24
• Timo Glock has cracked vertebrae
and will not race in Japan or Brazil
• Jaime Alguersuari crash
• Porsche Panamera commercial
• KERS is going away in 2010
round 16.
Inside Grand Prix - Brazil Preview 10/16 1:30pm,
episode 66
• Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace, Sao
Paulo, Brazil = 2.677 miles
• Nico Rosberg traces the racing circuit
while blindfolded
Formula One Practice - Interlagos, Sao Paolo, Brazil 10/16
1:00pm
• rain
• Medium & Super Soft tires will
be used this weekend
• fastest - 1. Alonso, 2. Buemi
Formula One Qualifying - Brazil 10/17 12:00pm
• Q1 rain during qualifying - many
delays due to rain, Fisichella spinout brings out red flag
• Q2 rain delays
• Q3 1. Rubens Barrichello, 2. Mark
Webber, 3. Adrian Sutil, 4. Jarno Trulli, 5. Kimi R, .... 14. Jenson Btton,
16. S. Vettel, 18. Lewis Hamilton
• Happy Birthday Kimi = 30 years old
Formula One Racing - Brazilian Grand Prix 10/18
• the super-soft and medium tire compounds
were used this weekend
•
• 1. Mark Webber, 2. , 3. Lewis Hamilton,
4. , 5. , 6. , 7. , 8.
Formula One Debrief - Brazilian Grand Prix 10/31 1:30am
EST, episode 19
• Jenson Button clinches the 2009
Formula One Driver's Championship
• Mark Webber is a weiner/wanker
round 17.
Inside Grand Prix - Abu Dhabi Preview 10/31 2:30am EST,
episode 29
• first Formula One race at the new,
state of the art Yas Marina Circuit racetrack
Formula One Practice - Abu Dhabi 10/30 9:00am
EST
•
Formula One Qualifying - Abu Dhabi 10/31 9:00am EST
• Q1 16. Fernando Alonso, 17. Liuzzi,
18. Adrian Sutil, 19. Roman Grosjean, 20. Giancarlo Fisichella
• Q2 11. Kimi Raikkonen, 12. Kamui
Kobayashi, 13. Kazuki Nakajima 14. Heikki Kovalainen, 15. Jaime Alg
• Q3 1. Lewis Hamilton, 2. Vettel,
3. Mark Webber, 4. Rubens, 5. Jenson Button, 6. Jarno Trulli, 7. Kubica, 8.
Heidfeld, 9. Nico Rosberg, 10. Buemi
Formula One Racing - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 11/01 7:30am
EST
• final Formula One race with refueling
during the race - no refueling allowed in 2010
• Porsche Panamera commercial at 37:38
• Hamilton's brakes malfunctioning
force him to abandon the race around lap 19
• Jaime Alguersuari drives thru Vettel's
pit box, then on next lap, runs out of gas
• 1. Sebastian Vettel, 2. Mark Webber,
3. Jenson Button, 4. Rubens Barrichello, 5. Nick Heidfeld, 6. Kamui Kobayashi,
7. Jarno Trulli
Formula One Debrief - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 11/15 1:00am
EST, episode 97
• fabulous new circuit
• Button and Webber dueled at end
of race for 2nd place
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