Spain 2009: Race analysis

At a glance

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap
1	Button	Brawn	1:20.707	1:20.192	1:20.527
2	Vettel	Red Bull	1:20.715	1:20.220	1:20.660	+0.133
3	Barrichello	Brawn	1:20.808	1:19.954	1:20.762	+0.235
4	Massa	Ferrari	1:20.484	1:20.149	1:20.934	+0.407
5	Webber	Red Bull	1:20.689	1:20.007	1:21.049	+0.522
6	Glock	Toyota	1:20.877	1:20.107	1:21.247	+0.720
7	Trulli	Toyota	1:21.189	1:20.420	1:21.254	+0.727
8	Alonso	Renault	1:21.186	1:20.509	1:21.392	+0.865
9	Rosberg	Williams	1:20.745	1:20.256	1:22.558	+2.031
10	Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:20.931	1:20.408	1:22.685	+2.158
11	Nakajima	Williams	1:20.818	1:20.531		+0.577
12	Piquet Jr.	Renault	1:21.128	1:20.604		+0.650
13	Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:21.095	1:20.676		+0.722
14	Hamilton	McLaren	1:20.991	1:20.805		+0.851
15	Buemi	Toro Rosso	1:21.033	1:21.067		+1.113
16	Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:21.291			+0.807
17	Bourdais	Toro Rosso	1:21.300			+0.816
18	Kovalainen	McLaren	1:21.675			+1.191
19	Sutil	Force India	1:21.742			+1.258
20	Fisichella	Force India	1:22.204			+1.720

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	Jenson Button	Brawn	1	66	1:37:19.202	2	Mercedes
2	Rubens BarrichelloFastest lap	Brawn	3	66	+13.056	3	Mercedes
3	Mark Webber	Red Bull	5	66	+13.924	2	Renault
4	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	2	66	+18.941	2	Renault
5	Fernando Alonso	Renault	8	66	+43.166	2	Renault
6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	4	66	+50.827	2	Ferrari
7	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	13	66	+52.312	2	BMW
8	Nico Rosberg	Williams	9	66	+1:05.211	2	Toyota
9	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	14	65	+1 lap	2	Mercedes
10	Timo Glock	Toyota	6	65	+1 lap	2	Toyota
11	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	10	65	+1 lap	2	BMW
12	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	12	65	+1 lap	2	Renault
13	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	11	65	+1 lap	3	Toyota
14	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	20	65	+1 lap	4	Mercedes
DNF	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	16	17	Hydraulics	0	Ferrari
DNF	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	18	7	Gearbox	0	Mercedes
DNF	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	7	0	Collision	0	Toyota
DNF	Sébastien Buemi	Toro Rosso	15	0	Collision	0	Ferrari
DNF	Sébastien Bourdais	Toro Rosso	17	0	Collision	0	Ferrari
DNF	Adrian Sutil	Force India	19	0	Collision	0	Mercedes

Race

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Places gained

Heidfeld13→7+6
Fisichella20→14+6
Hamilton14→9+5
Alonso8→5+3
Webber5→3+2
Barrichello3→2+1
Rosberg9→8+1
Button1→10
Piquet Jr.12→120
Kubica10→11-1
Vettel2→4-2
Massa4→6-2
Nakajima11→13-2
Glock6→10-4

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

Fastest pit stops

1Fisichella21.999R53
2Heidfeld22.232R50
3Hamilton22.265R48
4Barrichello22.489R50
5Heidfeld22.625R31
6Glock22.691R47
7Webber22.885R50
8Kubica23.027R46
9Barrichello23.063R31
10Fisichella23.204R52

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

Stints of the top 10

Button1830182 stops
Barrichello191219163 stops
Webber1931162 stops
Vettel2023232 stops
Alonso1826222 stops
Massa2023232 stops
Heidfeld3119162 stops
Rosberg2524172 stops
Hamilton3117172 stops · +1 lap
Glock1730182 stops · +1 lap

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.

Retirements

This race in history

18 races here since 1991Won from pole: 14 of 18

Win from furthest back (P3): Michael Schumacher 1996

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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