Japan 2009: Race analysis

At a glance

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap
1	Vettel	Red Bull	1:30.883	1:30.341	1:32.160
2	Trulli	Toyota	1:31.063	1:30.737	1:32.220	+0.060
3	Hamilton	McLaren	1:30.917	1:30.627	1:32.395	+0.235
4	Sutil	Force India	1:31.386	1:31.222	1:32.466	+0.306
5	Barrichello	Brawn	1:31.272	1:31.055	1:32.660	+0.500
6	Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:31.501	1:31.260	1:32.945	+0.785
7	Button	Brawn	1:31.041	1:30.880	1:32.962	+0.802
8	Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:31.228	1:31.052	1:32.980	+0.820
9	Kovalainen	McLaren	1:31.499	1:31.223		+0.882
10	Buemi	Toro Rosso	1:31.196	1:31.103		+0.762
11	Rosberg	Williams	1:31.286	1:31.482		+1.141
12	Alonso	Renault	1:31.401	1:31.638		+1.297
13	Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:31.417	1:32.341		+2.000
14	Glock	Toyota	1:31.550			+0.667
15	Alguersuari	Toro Rosso	1:31.571			+0.688
16	Fisichella	Ferrari	1:31.704			+0.821
17	Nakajima	Williams	1:31.718			+0.835
18	Grosjean	Renault	1:32.073			+1.190
19	Liuzzi	Force India	1:32.087			+1.204

Gap to the fastest time in the last session the driver took part in. Yellow: fastest time of the session.

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Laps	Gap	Stops	Engine
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	1	53	1:28:20.443	2	Renault
2	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	2	53	+4.877	2	Toyota
3	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	3	53	+6.472	2	Mercedes
4	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	5	53	+7.940	2	Ferrari
5	Nico Rosberg	Williams	7	53	+8.793	2	Toyota
6	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	4	53	+9.509	2	BMW
7	Rubens Barrichello	Brawn	6	53	+10.641	2	Mercedes
8	Jenson Button	Brawn	10	53	+11.474	2	Mercedes
9	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	9	53	+11.777	2	BMW
10	Fernando Alonso	Renault	16	53	+13.065	1	Renault
11	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	11	53	+13.735	2	Mercedes
12	Giancarlo Fisichella	Ferrari	14	53	+14.596	2	Ferrari
13	Adrian Sutil	Force India	8	53	+14.959	2	Mercedes
14	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India	18	53	+15.734	2	Mercedes
15	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	15	53	+17.973	1	Toyota
16	Romain Grosjean	Renault	17	52	+1 lap	1	Renault
17	Mark WebberFastest lap	Red Bull	PL	51	+2 laps	5	Renault
DNF	Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso	12	43	Accident	2	Ferrari
DNF	Sébastien Buemi	Toro Rosso	13	11	Clutch	0	Ferrari
DNS	Timo Glock	Toyota	-		Injury	0	Toyota

Starting grid vs qualifying

Sutil Qualified 4, started 8 · 5-place penalty
Button Qualified 7, started 10 · 5-place penalty
Kovalainen Qualified 9, started 11 · 5-place penalty
Buemi Qualified 10, started 13 · 5-place penalty
Alonso Qualified 12, started 16 · 5-place penalty
Liuzzi Qualified 19, started 18 · 5-place penalty
Webber Qualified -, started PL

Penalties and pit lane starts. Everyone else moves up accordingly.

Race

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Places gained

Alonso16→10+6
Liuzzi18→14+4
Rosberg7→5+2
Button10→8+2
Fisichella14→12+2
WebberPL→17+2
Räikkönen5→4+1
Grosjean17→16+1
Vettel1→10
Trulli2→20
Hamilton3→30
Kubica9→90
Kovalainen11→110
Nakajima15→150
Barrichello6→7-1
Heidfeld4→6-2
Sutil8→13-5

PL: started from the pit lane. Retired drivers are listed below.

Fastest pit stops

1Alguersuari23.191R43
2Liuzzi23.210R43
3Barrichello23.449R42
4Trulli23.765R39
5Button23.815R40
6Hamilton23.828R37
7Webber24.089R4
8Sutil24.175R39
9Kubica24.192R26
10Liuzzi24.341R25

Time in the pit lane from entry to exit, in seconds.

Stints of the top 10

Vettel1822132 stops
Trulli1623142 stops
Hamilton1522162 stops
Räikkönen1817182 stops
Rosberg222382 stops
Heidfeld1818172 stops
Barrichello1824112 stops
Button1723132 stops
Kubica2615122 stops
Alonso30231 stop

Stint length in laps, worked out from the pit stops. Which tyre compound was used per stint needs a licence for timing data, so it is not shown here. Lapped drivers covered fewer laps, so their bar ends earlier.

This race in history

20 races here since 1987Won from pole: 9 of 20

Win from furthest back (P17): Kimi Räikkönen 2005

Most wins here

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Statistics: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk and contributors, licence CC BY 4.0, prepared by Hotlap Delta.

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