2009 Chinese Grand Prix Preview, Circuit details at Shanghai

Third race of the 2009 Formula 1 season will be held as Chinese Grand Prix at Shanghai from Friday, 17th April, to Sunday, 19h April, 2009. Brawn GP's Jenson Button leading the driver's championship after back to back win in 2 races.

2009 Chinese Grand Prix has been moved ahead to 3rd race in the season as compared to last in 2008 F1 season. Shanghai circuit is of 5.451 km length of 56 laps race covers 305.066 km distance.

Hope for a good race in Shanghai after rain hit Malaysian Grand Prix which completed only 32 laps out of 66 laps and forced to take only half the points.





Shanghai Circuit Details:

Race Date: Sunday, 19 April, 2009

Number of Laps: 56

Circuit Length: 5.451 km

Race Distance: 305.066 km

Lap Record: 1:32.238 - M Schumacher (2004)

Brwn's Jenson Button won rain hit 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix

Jenson Buttoon of newly formed team Brawn GP won second consecutive race of the 2009 Formula 1 season as he won the rain hit 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix. BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld finished second and Toyota's Timo Glock finished 3rd.

Rain interrupted the race in the 22nd lap of the 56 lap scheduled race, Button who lost his lead to Glock in the process of changing to wet tyres swept back his lead in 29th lap and leading the race in 33rd lap when the race was stopped after a thunderstorm broke at the Sepang International Circuit.

All the drivers will get half the points where they finished in the race.

Race Summary:

Top 3 Drivers at 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix:

Jenson Button - Brawn-Mercedese

Nick Hiedfeld - BMW Sauber

Tim Glock - Toyota


Standing after 2nd Races in 2009:


Driver's Championship


Jenson Button (Brawn GP) - 15 Points

Rubens Barrichello (Brawn GP) - 10 Points

Jarno Trulli (Toyota) - 8.5 Points

Tim Glock (Toyota) - 8 Points


Constructor's Championship

Brawn-Mercedese - 25 Points

Toyota - 16.5

BMW Sauber - 4 Points

Brawn's Jenson Buuton takes Pole in 2009 Malayisan Grand Prix, Trulli 2nd

Brawn's Jenson Buuton takes Pole in 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Trulli 2nd

Jenson Button after won 2009 penning race last week at Melbourne continues his dream run with the new team Brawn GP as he takes pole in the 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, 2nd race of the season at Sepang circuit Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, for the Race Day on Sunday, 5th April, 2009.

Button took a time of 1 min 35.181 seconds to secure the fifth position and second of the season closely beaten Toyota's Jarno rulli who finished 2nd with a time of 1min 35.273sec.

Tim Glock will start at 3rd place after penalties handed out to Sebastian Vettel and Rubens Barrichello. William's Nico Rosberg and Mark Webber's Red Bull finished 4th and 5th respectively followed by Kubica at 6th with Kimi Raikkonen's in Ferrari in 7th and the Renault of Fernando Alonso in 8th.

Barrichello after penalty will start from 9th followed by Nick Heidfeld in BMW at 10th place. McLaren's Hamilton and team-mate Heikki Kovalainen in 13th and 14th respectively while errari's Felippe Massa will start from 16th position.

Force India F1 drivers Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian Sutil will start from 18th and 19th respectively.

New Team Brawn's Button and Barrichello finish One, Two at Australian GP

Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello created history for new team Brawn GP when they won from the front row to finish 1st, 2nd respectively in the Formula1 season opening 2009 ING Australian Grand Prix on Sunday, 29th March, 2009 at Melbourne.

Toyota's Trulli over took McLaren's Lewis Hamilton in the last lap to finish 3rd and 4th respectively. Timo Glock in 2nd Toyota finished 5th ahead of Renault's Fernando Alonso who finished 6th.

Nico Rosberg in Williams finished 7th while Sabastien Buemi took final points of the race on his debut, followed by team mate Sebastien Bourdais at 9th place.

Force India F1 team shown some good result in new Mercedez engine as Adrian Sutil finished top 10 while Fisichella finished 12th. Both Ferrari's was not able to finish the race.

Race Summary:

Top 3 Drivers at 2009 Australian Grand Prix:

Jenson Button - Brawn-Mercedese

Rubens Barrichello - Brawn-Mercedese

Jarno Trulli - Toyota


Standing after 1st Races in 2009:


Driver's Championship


Jenson Button (Brawn GP) - 10 Points

Rubens Barrichello (Brawn GP) - 8 Points

Jarno Trulli (Toyota) - 6 Points

Leis Hamilton (McLaren) - 5 Points


Constructor's Championship

Brawn-Mercedese - 18 Points

Toyota - 10

McLaren-Mercedese - 5 Points

Jenson Button takes Pole Position at 2009 Australian GP, Barrichello 2nd

Jenson Button and team mate Rubens Barrichello clinched 1st and 2nd position of the newly formed Brawn GP team in the 2009 season opening Australian Grand Prix on Saturday, 28th March, 2009 at Melbourne’s Albert Park. Ross Brown bought the opted out Honda team 4 months ago and created history a new teams both drivers will start from the front row.

Button got the pole with his lap of 1m 26.202s beaten his Brazilian team mate timing of 1m 26.505s. Sebastian Vettel’s took 3rd position on his debut for Red Bull with a lap of 1m 26.830s.

BMW Saubers dricer Robert Kubica drived superbly for 4th place in 1m 26.914s and Williams Nico Rosberg finished 5th with 1m 26.973s followed by Tim Glock in his Toyota 1m 26.975s.

Ferrari's and last year runner up was 7th with 1m 27.033s, followed by Jarno Trulli in the second Toyota on 1m 27.127s. Kimi Raikkonen in other Farrari 1m 27.163s and Red Bull's Mark Webber on 1m 27.246s finished in top 10.

Renault's double world champion Fernando Alonso will start from 12th position ans defending champion McLaren's Lewis Hamilton will start at 14th place behind team mate Heikki Kovalainen.

Force India F1 drivers Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian Sutil start 18th and 19th respectively, the same old story despite powered by a Mercedes engine

2009 Seaon Opening ING Australian Grand Prix Preview

2009 FIA Formula One 17 race season going to begin after a gap of almost 5 months with Australian Grand Prix from Friday, 27th March to Sunday, 29th March, 2009 at Melbourne’s Albert Park.

2009 F1 season will be without Honda team as they were quit due to financial crisis and with new restrictions in testing. Race start with free practice session on Friday and Sunday will be the Race Day.

So hope for a good fight between last time winner McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and rivals Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa. Also hope better performance by Force India F1 Team.



Australian GP Race Details:

Race Date: Sunday, 29 March, 2009

Number of Laps: 58

Circuit Length: 5.303 km

Race Distance: 307.574 km

Lap Record: 1:24.125 - M Schumacher (2004)

2009 FIA Formula One Race Calendar | 2009 F1 Championship Schedule, Fixture, Time Table

2009 Formula One season of 17 races is going to begin from 27th March, 2009 with Australian Grand Prix and end with all new Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 1st November, 2009.

Here is the complete Schedule, Race Calendar, Fixture, time Table of Formula 1 World Championship 2009, with date, place and circuit.

1st Race - ING Australian Grand Prix ( Melbourne )
from 27 - 29 March, 2009

2nd Race - Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix ( Kuala Lumpur )
from 03 - 05 April, 2009

3rd Race - Chinese Grand Prix ( Shanghai )
from 17 - 19 April, 2009

4th Race - Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix ( Sakhir )
from 24 - 26 April, 2009

5th Race - Gran Premio de Espana Telefonica ( Catalunya )
from 08 - 10 May, 2009

6th Race - Grand Prix de Monaco ( Monte Carlo )
from 21 - 24 May, 2009

7th Race - ING Turkish Grand Prix ( Istanbul )
from 05 - 07 June, 2009

8th Race - Santander British Grand Prix ( Silverstone )
from 19 - 21 June, 2009

9th Race - Grosser Preis Santander Von Deutschland ( Nurburgring )
from 10 - 12 July, 2009

10th Race - Magyar Nagydij ( Budapest )
from 24 - 26 July, 2009

11th Race - Telefonica Grand Prix of Europe ( Valencia )
from 21 - 23 August, 2009

12th Race - ING Belgian Grand Prix ( Spa-Francorchamps )
from 28- 30 August, 2009

13th Race - Gran Premio Santander D'Italia ( Monza )
from 11 - 13 September, 2009

14th Race - Singapore Grand Prix (Singapore)
from 25 - 27 September, 2009

15th Race - Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix ( Suzuka )
from 02 - 04 October, 2009

16th Race - Grande Premio do Brasil ( Sao Paulo )
from 16 - 18 October, 2009

17th Race - Etihad Aairways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix ( Yas Marina Circuit)
from 30 Oct - 01 November, 2009