Formula 1 sessions schedule
Friday 8th May
9.00-10.30 – First practice
13.00-14.30 – Second practice
Saturday 9th May
10.00-11.00 – Third practice
13.10-14.00 – Qualifying
Sunday 10th May
13.00 – Race
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Spanish Grand Prix articles
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- Webber’s fine drive and Rosberg’s troubles (Spanish Grand Prix analysis)
- Spanish Grand Prix facts and stats
Previus race: Bahrain Grand Prix 2009
Next race: Monaco Grand prix 2009
How many “for sure” during this GP weekend?
Maybe we have another record to set…
LOL
I know Hamilton dropped that bomb two times in a row, For sure for sure he did.
is phillepee massa running a car powered by a turo engine?????
Is who, running a what?
Another thing important to note is that Jenson Button has been having one of the most successful starts to a season ever by any driver!
Best first-5-races streaks in history:
1992 Mansell: 1-1-1-1-1-(2)
2004 Schumi: 1-1-1-1-1-(ret)
1994 Schumi: 1-1-1-1-2-(1)
2002 Schumi: 1-3-1-1-1-(1)
2009 Button: 1-1-3-1-1-(?)
This is Ferrari’s 4th race in a row when they’re making mistakes and/or have mechanical failures. That is after being one of the most reliable cars and the strategy example in the past few years.
Keith, to follow up on Webber-Brabham, Peter Windsor also mentioned in yesterday’s unilaterals that Webber took 3rd place 50 years to the day since Sir Jack’s first Grand Prix win (at Monaco).
Ferrari are still experiencing their worst start to a Grand Prix season ever. Even though they have now scored 6 points, they did so with two 6th places. In 1980 however, they took a 5th and a 6th place, scoring 3 points, while in 1981 they took a 5th and a 4th place, scoring 7 points.
On the Autosport.com forum I read that with Button, Barrichello and Webber, we might have seen the most experienced podium ever, with a combined total of 556 starts (Button 158, Barrichello 272 and Webber 126).
On Ferrari: I discovered that the 1993 season was as bad as the current one: two 6th places from the first 5 races (which was also for the other seasons, of course).
This year’s Australian GP podium, of Button, Barrichello and Trulli, was more experienced.
Can someone explain to me the difference between race finished and classifications?
Finish a race is easy: if you cross the finish line at the last lap, you’ve finished. Being classified, however, requires you to cover, IIRC, 90% of the race distance.
Correct.
@ Explosiva
Another interesting thing is: If there are, say, 2 laps until the end of the race, and there are for example only 7 cars still running – even if the last driver falls out of the race then, he will be classified and will get the points for the seventh position.
[But it is him who must have covered more than 90% of the race distance - not just the race leader.]
True. It’s even so that a driver stopping from say 6th a lap from the end, but having lapped the driver in 7th, he’ll still be classified 6th, scoring 3 points.
“But it is him who must have covered more than 90% of the race distance – not just the race leader.”
No, he has to cover more than 90% of the distance covered by the winner.
“But it is him who must have covered more than 90% of the race distance – not just the race leader.”
No, he has to cover more than 90% of the distance covered by the winner.
that happened in Australia 2008 where kimis ferrari died towards the end but there were so few runners he was classified 8th and got the point
Using the word “from” between drivers/teams to describe race order is fast becoming the second most annoying phrase of the season behind “KERS system“.
“Brawn from Brawn from Red Bull from Red Bull…”
Quite annoying indeed. It’s Jonathan Legard’s invention, I believe.
thank god it wasnt only me that wants to scream, i was watching the GP yesterday slightly hungover and it was driving me mental, why cant the man shut up with his FROM obsession!
“for sure” is infinitely more annoying than both of those phrases.
Well, that’s for sure.
Listen to the CBBC commentary, it’s far, far better. It was the only thing that made the Spanish GP enjoyable
I still prefer Legard over James Allen.
I hate that… Like when people say “PIN number”
Idiots!
It’s definitely a Legard thing. He also says “as they come down this start finish straight”. There’s only one start finish straight!
Press the red button and listen to Anthony Davidson, he’s very very good and incredibly knowledgable.
Obligatory “listen to star sports and steve slater then” remark
let’s remember scott speed
Piquet still on his qualifying losing streak.
Keith – one stat I haven’t seen mentioned much is the privateer vs manufacturers. We’ve had 5 wins by the customer teams in 2009 which I think is more in one season than we’ve had over the last decade.
It’s the 13th time (record) that Jarno Trulli retires during the 1st lap.
Well spotted – never noticed that before!
But no privateer ever inherited hundreds of millions of dollars, and a massive industrial complex in the history of F1, from an abdicating dad.
Brawn GP is now the only team to have scored a point in every race this season (both Toyota’s failed to score a point).
I don’t know if this is a record yet, but isn’t Jenson Button on track to have the best improvement from one season to another? His tally is already 12x higher than his total number of points last season…
Button may do so total-number-of-points-wise, but he won´t beat ´Keke´ Rosberg in percentage increase, or the final result: The season before the one in which Rosberg claimed the WDC he failed to score a single point!
Every season a driver has won four from the first five GP, he later became the season World Champion. It happened in :
- 1963 and 1965 (Jim Clark)
- 1969 (Jackie Stewart)
- 1991 (Ayrton Senna)
- 1992 (Nigell Mansell)
- 1994, 2002 and 2004 (Michael Schumacher)
- 1996 (Damon Hill)
And 4 of them were Brits !
Oh, sorry for telling it wrong. I didn’t know that. ;]
@ mire
It doesn’t look like anyone could steal the championship away from Button this season, does it?
Well, Red Bull is coming with a big update for Monaco. If they win all races from then on and Webber comes behind Vettel, a lot could still happen
I think Vettel could be a champ, but don’t write off Ferrari and Mclaren!
Hi All,
please can anyone advise. How did Massa end up with a points finish, I thought a driver had to finish the lap (if they are on the same lap as the race leader) and only drivers + 1 lap are allocated places even if they don’t cross the finish line.
thanks.
Bob.
I remember ‘MAS’ appearing on the screen just before ‘HEI’ did. So he must have crossed the finish line.
Massa finished the race, he ran out of fuel around turn 3 I think on the lap back to the pits.
Correct. Just goes to show how urgent it was for him to lift off and let Vettel and Alonso past.
The first three on the left side of the grid finished 1, 2, 3.
The first three on the right side of the grid finished 4, 6, 10.