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Saturday, 6 June 2009 ‡ 10:53
Lots of news regarding the teams who will be or not be racing next year. I think its a huge shame about these teams having to make these types of comments this year, surely has a massive distraction on their 2009 task.
It seems this race has already been awarded to Massa, since he has 3 wins in a row at this track, but i don't feel Ferrari, let alone Massa will be anywhere near the front during qualifying or the race. As the first session of qualifying is over, Hamilton again will be starting at the tail end of the pack, 16th. McLaren's Kovalainen only managed 14th at the end of the second session, with no other surprises. The final session, Webber as usual does very well in qualifying with a 4th spot, with Barrichello and Button in front and Vettel on pole. I don't feel Kimi in 6th and Massa in 7th will be too much of a threat to the Red Bull and Brawn cars as long as no major incidents occur.
Vettel takes off from pole closely followed by Button and as Barrichello drops it on the start, he allows Trulli and Webber to jump up with half the rest of the pack, as Rubens drops to mid field. Vettel then makes a mistake half way around allowing Button to lead, from which Vettel never recovered and Button never faltered. Apart from Barrichello really trying hard to fight his way back up, nothing really exciting happened from then on. Red Bull should have switched from their three stop to a two stop after this but they didn't which i reckon lost Vettel the chance of regaining the lead in the race.
As predicted the Ferrari's where nowhere and McLaren's didn't really threaten anyone. Toyota's and William's did well, unfortunately Nakajima had wheel problems during his pit stop which dropped him right down the field. Barrichello retired and faces a massive 26 point gap in second place, with Vettel in third, 32 points behind Button, its up to Button to just collect as many points as possible after Nurburgring the second half of the season and surely secure the drivers championship by Monza, but then i don't think Barrichello could take points off Jenson.
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