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Monaco
Saturday, 23 May 2009 ‡ 14:14
With the threat of limiting the teams to $40m budget furious discussions have taken place without any real outcome. It would be a shame if Ferrari and Renault bailed on F1.
Hamilton's mistake disallowed him to continue in the session leaving him 15th with both BMW's and Toyota's out in the first session. The second session continues with the usual suspects at the front, with an impressive Nakajima managing to stay in for the final session. Battling out at the front, pole sitters switching from Rosberg, Vettel, Massa, Barrichello and in the final seconds, Button takes in his Senna like style.
Amazingly the first corner and even the first lap was incident free, expecting cars to be flying over each other. The Brawn's stretch out a lead with a hard charging Massa trying to take Vettel, but manages to brake too late for the chicane coming out the tunnel and cutting across in front of Vettel. Massa forced to yield his position back to Vettel, also allowed Rosberg through too, in a very close wheel to wheel slice around the swimming pool complex. Vettel later losing traction due to worn rears and pitting, to which soon afterwards he later smacks his car into retirement.
Rubens settled for 2nd as he was more agressive on his tyres, allowing Jenson to maintain a slight lead. Kimi managed his first podium this season, driving a solid race, keeping out of trouble to finish 3rd, with the other two ex-World Champions, Alonso finishing 7th and Lewis finishing 12th. Massa brings home the other Ferrari behind Kimi, Webber with a solid 5th and Rosberg managing 6th.
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