Japanese Grand Prix race result
| Position | Driver | Laps | Delay | Gap |
| 1 | Sebastian Vettel | 53 | ||
| 2 | Jarno Trulli | 53 | 4.877 | 4.877 |
| 3 | Lewis Hamilton | 53 | 6.472 | 1.595 |
| 4 | Kimi Raikkonen | 53 | 7.94 | 1.468 |
| 5 | Nico Rosberg | 53 | 8.793 | 0.853 |
| 6 | Nick Heidfeld | 53 | 9.509 | 0.716 |
| 7 | Rubens Barrichello | 53 | 10.641 | 1.132 |
| 8 | Jenson Button | 53 | 11.474 | 0.833 |
| 9 | Robert Kubica | 53 | 11.777 | 0.303 |
| 10 | Fernando Alonso | 53 | 13.065 | 1.288 |
| 11 | Heikki Kovalainen | 53 | 13.735 | 0.67 |
| 12 | Giancarlo Fisichella | 53 | 14.596 | 0.861 |
| 13 | Adrian Sutil | 53 | 14.959 | 0.363 |
| 14 | Vitantonio Liuzzi | 53 | 15.734 | 0.775 |
| 15 | Kazuki Nakajima | 53 | 17.973 | 2.239 |
| 16 | Romain Grosjean | 52 | -1 laps | -1 laps |
| 17 | Mark Webber | 51 | -2 laps | -1 laps |
| Not classified | ||||
| 18 | Jaime Alguersuari | 43 | -10 laps | -8 laps |
| 19 | Sebastien Buemi | 11 | -42 laps | -32 laps |
| 20 | Timo Glock | 0 | -53 laps | -11 laps |
Did not start
Timo Glock, Toyota
Japanese Grand Prix
- Button, Barrichello, Alonso, Sutil and Buemi get five-place grid penalties
- Vettel has slight strategy advantage (Japanese Grand Prix fuel weights)
- Japanese Grand Prix grid (updated)
- Sebastian Vettel takes pole in crash-hit session (Japanese Grand Prix qualifying)
- Crashes for Alguersuari, Glock and Kovalainen halt Japan qualifying (Video)
TommyB said on 4th October 2009, 7:38
Chuffed to bits. Great drive from Vettel and he shares the podium with Hamilton for the first time. 2 favourites finally share the podium.
Button is pretty much champion now though, Rubens didn’t close the gap enough which he needed to do today.
steph90 said on 4th October 2009, 11:14
Congrats to Seb, real shame about Torro Rosso but I am happy with their pace this weekend. Also well done to Jarno, I hope he does stay in F1 next year.