Apr 05
PROVISIONAL RACE RESULTS
The Malaysian Grand Prix
Sepang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;
56 laps; 310.408km;
Weather: Sunny, then wet.
Classified:
Pos Driver Team Time
1. Button Brawn GP (B) 1h10:59.092
2. Heidfeld BMW Sauber (B) + 22.722
3. Glock Toyota (B) + 23.513
4. Trulli Toyota (B) + 46.173
5. Barrichello Brawn GP (B) + 47.360
6. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) + 52.333
7. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) + 60.733
8. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) + 71.576
9. Massa Ferrari (B) + 76.932
10. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) + 102.164
11. Alonso Renault (B) + 1 lap
12. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) + 1 lap
13. Piquet Renault (B) + 1 lap
14. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) + 1 lap
15. Vettel Red Bull-Renault (B) + 1 lap
16. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) + 1 lap
17. Sutil Force India-Mercedes (B) + 1 lap
18. Fisichella Force India-Mercedes (B) + 2 lap
Fastest lap: Button, 1:36.641
Not classified/retirements:
Driver Team On lap
Kubica BMW Sauber (B) 1
Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) 0
All timing unofficial
Apr 05
The Malaysian Grand Prix was red-flagged with 24 laps to go after the weather conditions made it impossible to continue racing.
A downpour hit the already chaotic event and the race stewards decided to deploy the safety car.
Even behind the safety car, it was impossible to drive and it was decided to stop the race.
If the event is not resumed, half the points would be awarded, as the drivers had not completed 75% of the event.
Briton Jenson Button was leading ahead of Timo Glock and Nick Heidfeld.
Apr 04
Felipe Massa blamed a strategic error for his failure to make into the second qualifying segment ahead of the Malaysian Grand Prix.
The Ferrari driver missed the cut in Q1 after not completing another run in the dying moments of the session.
Massa said after qualifying that Ferrari felt his previous best was enough to secure a place in the top 15, and hence decided not to send him out again, something which proved to be a mistake.
“Well, actually I went straight away on a new set of softs. I didn’t do a perfect lap, I did a reasonable lap, but not a perfect lap,” explained Massa.
“I went wide on the first lap in Turn 14 and then I improved on the second timed lap by two tenths. The team thought it was enough to be inside the top 15 and maybe I thought as well, to be honest, because when I got back to the pits I was fourth.
“I stayed in the top seven for a while, but then when I started to drop it was impossible to go out again because there was no time to do another lap.
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Apr 04
Q. What happened in qualifying?
Felipe Massa: Well, actually I went straight away on a new set of softs. I didn’t do a perfect lap, I did a reasonable lap, but not a perfect lap. I went wide on the first lap in Turn 14 and then I improved on the second timed lap by two tenths. The team thought it was enough to be inside the top 15 and maybe I thought as well, to be honest, because when I got back to the pits I was fourth.
I stayed in the top seven for a while, but then when I started to drop it was impossible to go out again because there was no time to do another lap. Maybe the track improved a lot as well, with the temperature going down many people improved. We just thought it was enough to get in the top 15 and it wasn’t so we dropped completely.
Maybe the past is still very fresh in our mind where we had a very competitive car and it was always easy to go out in first qualifying on the hard tyre or whatever and be in the top 10. Now it’s not that easy anymore. Now we need to be able to use our tyres in qualifying because that’s the only way to pass every session.
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Apr 04
Jenson Button held off a challenge from Jarno Trulli to take his second straight pole position in Malaysian Grand Prix qualifying.
Sebastian Vettel and Rubens Barrichello were third and fourth, but as both have to take post-qualifying penalties, Timo Glock will make it two Toyotas in the top three.
Felipe Massa – the pole-sitter at Sepang for the past two years – will start only 16th after a misjudgement by Ferrari in Q1.
Trulli took provisional pole for Toyota early in Q3, but was then pushed back to third by Brawn GP’s Button and Red Bull driver Vettel.
However Trulli stayed out for a second straight flying lap on the soft tyres and found a further 0.3s – moving back up to first by 0.004s over Button.
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Apr 04
Pos Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3
1. Button Brawn-Mercedes (B) 1:35.058 1:33.784 1:35.181
2. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:34.745 1:33.990 1:35.273
3. Vettel Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:34.935 1:34.276 1:35.518
4. Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes (B) 1:34.681 1:34.387 1:35.651
5. Glock Toyota (B) 1:34.907 1:34.258 1:35.690
6. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) 1:35.083 1:34.547 1:35.750
7. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:35.027 1:34.222 1:35.797
8. Kubica BMW-Sauber (B) 1:35.166 1:34.562 1:36.106
9. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:35.476 1:34.456 1:36.170
10. Alonso Renault (B) 1:35.260 1:34.706 1:37.659
11. Heidfeld BMW-Sauber (B) 1:35.110 1:34.769
12. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) 1:35.341 1:34.788
13. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:35.280 1:34.905
14. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:35.023 1:34.924
15. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:35.507 1:35.431
16. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:35.642
17. Piquet Renault (B) 1:35.708
18. Fisichella Force India-Mercedes (B) 1:35.908
19. Sutil Force India-Mercedes (B) 1:35.951
20. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:36.107
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