1 November 2009 by Keith Collantine
Drivers’ fastest laps
| Rank | Driver | Fastest lap | Deficit to fastest lap | Laps within 1% of personal best |
| 1 | Sebastian Vettel | 100.279 | 0 | 21 |
| 2 | Sebastien Buemi | 100.326 | 0.047 | 14 |
| 3 | Lewis Hamilton | 100.367 | 0.088 | 10 |
| 4 | Rubens Barrichello | 100.449 | 0.17 | 21 |
| 5 | Mark Webber | 100.571 | 0.292 | 26 |
| 6 | Jenson Button | 100.642 | 0.363 | 29 |
| 7 | Nick Heidfeld | 100.672 | 0.393 | 29 |
| 8 | Jarno Trulli | 100.723 | 0.444 | 21 |
| 9 | Kazuki Nakajima | 100.754 | 0.475 | 8 |
| 10 | Fernando Alonso | 100.757 | 0.478 | 6 |
| 11 | Kamui Kobayashi | 100.779 | 0.5 | 21 |
| 12 | Kimi Raikkonen | 100.843 | 0.564 | 6 |
| 13 | Adrian Sutil | 100.904 | 0.625 | 11 |
| 14 | Robert Kubica | 100.924 | 0.645 | 27 |
| 15 | Nico Rosberg | 100.997 | 0.718 | 24 |
| 16 | Giancarlo Fisichella | 101.132 | 0.853 | 2 |
| 17 | Vitantonio Liuzzi | 101.277 | 0.998 | 5 |
| 18 | Heikki Kovalainen | 101.316 | 1.037 | 20 |
| 19 | Romain Grosjean | 102.274 | 1.995 | 23 |
| 20 | Jaime Alguersuari | 103.318 | 3.039 | 10 |
Top 50 fastest laps
| Rank | Driver | Lap time | Lap |
| 1 | Sebastian Vettel | 100.279 | 54 |
| 2 | Sebastien Buemi | 100.326 | 55 |
| 3 | Sebastian Vettel | 100.328 | 18 |
| 4 | Lewis Hamilton | 100.367 | 16 |
| 5 | Rubens Barrichello | 100.449 | 54 |
| 6 | Sebastien Buemi | 100.513 | 54 |
| 7 | Rubens Barrichello | 100.514 | 55 |
| 8 | Sebastian Vettel | 100.53 | 16 |
| 9 | Mark Webber | 100.571 | 14 |
| 10 | Sebastian Vettel | 100.594 | 53 |
| 11 | Lewis Hamilton | 100.599 | 15 |
| 12 | Sebastian Vettel | 100.642 | 39 |
| 13 | Jenson Button | 100.642 | 49 |
| 14 | Jenson Button | 100.659 | 15 |
| 15 | Rubens Barrichello | 100.666 | 15 |
| 16 | Sebastian Vettel | 100.668 | 38 |
| 17 | Nick Heidfeld | 100.672 | 54 |
| 18 | Mark Webber | 100.713 | 16 |
| 19 | Jarno Trulli | 100.723 | 49 |
| 20 | Jarno Trulli | 100.738 | 51 |
| 21 | Sebastian Vettel | 100.74 | 17 |
| 22 | Jenson Button | 100.753 | 16 |
| 23 | Kazuki Nakajima | 100.754 | 54 |
| 24 | Fernando Alonso | 100.757 | 54 |
| 25 | Lewis Hamilton | 100.769 | 10 |
| 26 | Sebastian Vettel | 100.775 | 15 |
| 27 | Kamui Kobayashi | 100.779 | 55 |
| 28 | Rubens Barrichello | 100.79 | 14 |
| 29 | Jenson Button | 100.793 | 48 |
| 30 | Nick Heidfeld | 100.794 | 52 |
| 31 | Kamui Kobayashi | 100.795 | 53 |
| 32 | Mark Webber | 100.812 | 13 |
| 33 | Mark Webber | 100.816 | 15 |
| 34 | Jenson Button | 100.833 | 50 |
| 35 | Jarno Trulli | 100.834 | 53 |
| 36 | Sebastian Vettel | 100.837 | 40 |
| 37 | Sebastien Buemi | 100.84 | 37 |
| 38 | Kimi Raikkonen | 100.843 | 54 |
| 39 | Jarno Trulli | 100.852 | 50 |
| 40 | Jenson Button | 100.873 | 14 |
| 41 | Rubens Barrichello | 100.88 | 53 |
| 42 | Sebastien Buemi | 100.881 | 40 |
| 43 | Mark Webber | 100.882 | 10 |
| 44 | Mark Webber | 100.883 | 9 |
| 45 | Nick Heidfeld | 100.886 | 40 |
| 46 | Sebastien Buemi | 100.899 | 52 |
| 47 | Adrian Sutil | 100.904 | 34 |
| 48 | Kamui Kobayashi | 100.907 | 51 |
| 49 | Sebastian Vettel | 100.916 | 37 |
| 50 | Robert Kubica | 100.924 | 54 |
Buemi did the second fastest lap!!!? WOW where did that come from
NICE!!! 
Fun stats.. Interesting to see… Based on these. Out of the top 50 fastest laps Vettel scored 10, Button and Mark 6 each, Rubens 5, Trulli 4, Kamu Lewis and Heidfeld 3 each then Adrian, Alonso, Nakajima, Kimi and Kubica 1 each. Just thought it would be fun to see how many times each driver made it into the top 50 fastest laps. Not only was Vettel once again fast but very consistent as well. Sure there was drivers more consistent then him but he was fastest and had many very fast laps. Vettels 1% of his fastest lap was barely slower then Liuzzi’s fastest and was faster then Heikki, Grosjean and Alguersuari.
Another worthless fact Vettels 10th fastest lap was within 0.64% of his fastest and was good enough to be the 49th fastest lap among all drivers fastest laps.
yea, but you forgot buemi
Interesting to see the drivers with 20+ laps consistently near their best. No doubt Hamilton would’ve been in there too if not for the retirement
Oops hit submit accidentally before I added “and good to see Kobayashi putting plenty in. He has to be getting a drive next year”
Hamilton, only 0.088s off fastest lap, with a suffering car and only racing 20 laps, best driver of the weekend hands down,
and its not just the car, heikki was a second off that pace, dont blame his strategy either because he could have done some fast laps before his stop
This isn’t me “blaming the strategy” but the difference between heikki on low fuel and lewis on low fuel was that his tyres had done 10+ more laps.
I think you need to be slighty more sympathetic towards heikki
And what about his next set of tyres? Heikki had the whole race to get faster.
Oh hang on.
Heikki’s driving a car that isn’t as good as Lewis’s. Oh and the tires didn’t work and something else wasn’t right. Otherwise Heikki is of course faster than Lewis…
I remember something about Heikki not having KERS and McLaren trying to get things fixed.
Maybe that also held him back?
Its really interesting to see how close Trulli and Kobayashi were from this chart…only 5 hundredths between their fastest laps, and the same number of laps within 1%! And this from Kobayashi’s second race for the team! Toyota needs to swap out Trulli for this guy in 2010, he seems hungry.
Can we get the “top 50 fastest laps” chart for the 2006 Brazilian GP?
Schumi was ruthless there, he put a fastest lap right AFTER his 2nd pitstop, such was his pace. It will be awesome to see some 20-25 laps of those 50 belonging to Schumi.
I’m impressed that BUT, WEB and KUB were within 1% of their best lap times (approx 1 second) for about a quarter of the race.
And Heidfield too, sorry!
Everyone forgets Heidfeld…
Heidfeld who?