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Japanese Grand Prix Circuit – Suzuka

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Japanese Grand Prix Circuit Track Map

Japanese Grand Prix Circuit Information

Circuit length – 5.807km
Race distance – 53 laps / 307.573km

Top speed (race) – 313kph
Full throttle – 67%
Longest flat-out section – 16s / 1.23km

Japanese Grand Prix 2009

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Japanese Grand Prix 2009
02 – 04 October, Suzuka

Sebastian Vettel convincingly won the Japanese Grand Prix to keep his slim title hopes alive but championship leader Jenson Button stayed in control.

Cool Button pounced on an early tangle up ahead to finish in eighth, although a late safety car denied his Brawn team being crowned constructors’ champions.
Seventh place for Rubens Barrichello, just ahead of Brawn team mate Jenson Button, leaves the championship points table as Button 85, Barrichello 71, Vettel 69 with two races remaining.

Ahead of the duelling Brazilian and the Englishman, Kimi Raikkonen brought his Ferrari home fourth after a fighting drive, while Nico Rosberg made some amends for his Singapore error by taking fifth for Williams. Nick Heidfeld was sixth for BMW Sauber.

Hamilton lost time with a slow exit from the pits and then was hobbled by a KERS problem in the closing stages, but managed to fend off Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari for third.

Meanwhile, Button again played a perfect game of damage limitation after the points leader recovered well from his grid penalty and a poor start to finish eighth behind Barrichello.

Suzuka 2009 – Vettel wins Japanese Grand Prix

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Sebastian Vettel convincingly won the Japanese Grand Prix to keep his slim title hopes alive but championship leader Jenson Button stayed in control.

Cool Button pounced on an early tangle up ahead to finish in eighth, although a late safety car denied his Brawn team being crowned constructors’ champions.
Seventh place for Rubens Barrichello, just ahead of Brawn team mate Jenson Button, leaves the championship points table as Button 85, Barrichello 71, Vettel 69 with two races remaining.

Ahead of the duelling Brazilian and the Englishman, Kimi Raikkonen brought his Ferrari home fourth after a fighting drive, while Nico Rosberg made some amends for his Singapore error by taking fifth for Williams. Nick Heidfeld was sixth for BMW Sauber.

Hamilton lost time with a slow exit from the pits and then was hobbled by a KERS problem in the closing stages, but managed to fend off Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari for third.

Meanwhile, Button again played a perfect game of damage limitation after the points leader recovered well from his grid penalty and a poor start to finish eighth behind Barrichello.

Japanese Grand Prix result (53 laps)

1. VETTEL – Red Bull
2. TRULLI – Toyota +4.8s
3. HAMILTON – McLareen +6.4s
4. RAIKKONEN – Ferrari +7.9s
5. ROSBERG – Williams +8.7s
6. HEIDFELD – BMW +9.5s
7. BARRICHELLO – Brawn +10.6s
8. BUTTON – Brawn +11.4s
9. KUBICA – BMW +11.7s
10. ALONSO – Renault +13.0s
11. KOVALAINEN – McLaren +13.7s
12. FISICHELLA – Ferrari +14.5s
13. SUTIL – Force India +14.9s
14. LIUZZI – Force India +15.7s
15. NAKAJIMA – Williams +17.9s
16. GROSJEAN – Renault +1 lap

Suzuka 2009 Final Practice

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Jarno Trulli tops the final practice of the Japanese Grand Prix 2009. The sun returned to Suzuka and we had some action at last.

The Toyota posted the fastest lap ahead of Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Buemi and Williams’s Nico Rosberg after heavy rain made Friday a virtual washout.

Jenson Button, who could win the world title on Sunday, damaged his car after contact with Jaime Alguersuari.

Sebastien Buemi had set the pace all through for Toro Rosso, but in the dying moments the Italian beat him by 0.062s with a lap of 1m 31.709s compared to the Swiss drivers 1m 31.771s. They were the only two below 1m 32s.

Nico Rosberg was another late improver, pushing his Toyota-engined Williams round in 1m 32.343s for third ahead of Sebastian Vettels Red Bull on 1m 32.414s, Kimi Raikkonens Ferrari on 1m 32.445s, Adrian Sutils Force India on 1m 32.467s and Rubens Barrichellos Brawn on 1m 32.488s.

Ferrari enjoyed a promising morning with Kimi Raikkonen in fifth ahead of Friday’s wet pacesetter Adrian Sutil (Force India), with the Brawn title-chasing duo Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button in seventh and ninth respectively.

Suzuka 2009 Friday Practice

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Adrian Sutil put Force India at the top of the timesheet in a second practice session at Suzuka that was a virtual washout.

A lunchtime downpour saturated the circuit and prevented any meaningful running until more than hour into the 90-minute session.

For a long while it seemed nobody would even set a time during second practice at Suzuka on Friday. Shortly after Heikki Kovalainen had set the fastest time in the morning the rain got heavier, and after the two Toro Rossos each did a lap in the afternoon, nobody ventured out for over an hour.

McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton was fourth fastest in the afternoon and the defending world champion savoured the challenge of his first race at the famous figure-of-eight-shaped circuit.

“This is the best track I’ve ever driven,” Hamilton said afterwards. “It’s something very special for me and I had a great time today, even though it was wet.

“We didn’t do much running – we weren’t supposed to be running this afternoon, but I couldn’t help it: I just had to go out and have a little bit of fun!