Race · Round 3 of 17 · 19 April 2009

2009 Chinese Grand Prix

Sebastian Vettel won for Red Bull Racing from pole at Shanghai International Circuit. 3 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Red Bull Racing.

Wet · High of 22 °C, 24 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

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Circuit: Shanghai International CircuitShanghai, China
Winner: Sebastian VettelRed Bull Racing
Pole: Sebastian Vettel
Fastest lap: Rubens Barrichello
Entries: 2017 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	RB5	1	56	Finished	10
2	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	RB5	3	56	Finished	8
3	Jenson Button	Brawn GP	BGP 001	5	56	Finished	6
4	Rubens Barrichello	Brawn GP	BGP 001	4	56	Finished	5	fastest lap
5	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	MP4-24	12	56	Finished	4
6	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	MP4-24	9	56	Finished	3
7	Timo Glock	Toyota	TF109	19	56	Finished	2
8	Sébastien Buemi	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR4	10	56	Finished	1
9	Fernando Alonso	Renault	R29	2	56	Finished	0
10	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	F60	8	56	Finished	0
11	Sébastien Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR4	15	56	Finished	0
12	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	F1.09	11	56	Finished	0
13	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	F1.09	17	56	Finished	0
14	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	VJM02	20	55	Finished	0
15	Nico Rosberg	Williams	FW31	7	55	Finished	0
16	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	R29	16	54	Finished	0
17	Adrian Sutil	Force India	VJM02	18	50	Accident	0
DNF	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	FW31	14	43	Transmission	0
DNF	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	F60	13	20	Electrical	0
DNF	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	TF109	6	18	Collision damage	0

F1DB layout shanghai-1 · 5.451 km · 16 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Sebastian Vettel	1	1	56
Mark Webber	3	2	56
Jenson Button	5	3	56
Rubens Barrichello	4	4	56
Heikki Kovalainen	12	5	56
Sir Lewis Hamilton	9	6	56
Timo Glock	19	7	56
Sébastien Buemi	10	8	56
Fernando Alonso	2	9	56
Kimi Raikkonen	8	10	56
Sébastien Bourdais	15	11	56
Nick Heidfeld	11	12	56
Robert Kubica	17	13	56
Giancarlo Fisichella	20	14	55
Nico Rosberg	7	15	55
Nelson Piquet Jr.	16	16	54
Adrian Sutil	18	17	50
Kazuki Nakajima	14	DNF	43
Felipe Massa	13	DNF	20
Jarno Trulli	6	DNF	18

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	15	1:36.565	1:35.130	1:36.184	—	0 m	—
2	Fernando Alonso	Renault	7	1:36.443	1:35.803	1:36.381	+0.197	11 m	+0.197
3	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	14	1:35.751	1:35.173	1:36.466	+0.282	16 m	+0.085
4	Rubens Barrichello	Brawn GP	23	1:35.701	1:35.503	1:36.493	+0.309	18 m	+0.027
5	Jenson Button	Brawn GP	22	1:35.533	1:35.556	1:36.532	+0.348	20 m	+0.039
6	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	9	1:36.308	1:35.645	1:36.835	+0.651	37 m	+0.303
7	Nico Rosberg	Williams	16	1:35.941	1:35.809	1:37.397	+1.213	69 m	+0.562
8	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	4	1:36.137	1:35.856	1:38.089	+1.905	108 m	+0.692
9	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	1	1:35.776	1:35.740	1:38.595	+2.411	137 m	+0.506
10	Sébastien Buemi	Scuderia Toro Rosso	12	1:36.284	1:35.965	1:39.321	+3.137	178 m	+0.726
11	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	6	1:36.525	1:35.975	—	—	48 m	—
12	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	2	1:36.646	1:36.032	—	—	52 m	—
13	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	3	1:36.178	1:36.033	—	—	52 m	—
14	Timo Glock	Toyota	10	1:36.364	1:36.066	—	—	54 m	—
15	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	17	1:36.673	1:36.193	—	—	61 m	—
16	Sébastien Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	11	1:36.906	—	—	—	78 m	—
17	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	8	1:36.908	—	—	—	78 m	—
18	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	5	1:36.966	—	—	—	82 m	—
19	Adrian Sutil	Force India	20	1:37.669	—	—	—	122 m	—
20	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	21	1:37.672	—	—	—	122 m	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year. Each driver is measured against the fastest lap of the last part they set a time in.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Sebastian Vettel	1	56	2	15, 37	27.9, 28.0
Mark Webber	2	56	2	14, 39	28.7, 26.1
Jenson Button	3	56	2	19, 42	28.3, 26.2
Rubens Barrichello	4	56	2	19, 43	29.2, 25.1
Heikki Kovalainen	5	56	1	34	25.1
Sir Lewis Hamilton	6	56	1	33	26.6
Timo Glock	7	56	1	24	29.5
Sébastien Buemi	8	56	2	19, 45	29.7, 25.1
Fernando Alonso	9	56	2	7, 35	35.6, 26.3
Kimi Raikkonen	10	56	1	27	30.0
Sébastien Bourdais	11	56	1	30	29.6
Nick Heidfeld	12	56	1	18	28.8
Robert Kubica	13	56	2	17, 35	37.1, 31.8
Giancarlo Fisichella	14	55	1	33	28.2
Nico Rosberg	15	55	3	5, 40, 48	28.5, 26.4, 25.0
Nelson Piquet Jr.	16	54	3	21, 28, 45	27.9, 37.9, 52.1
Adrian Sutil	17	50	2	4, 19	29.3, 30.7
Kazuki Nakajima	DNF	43	2	32, 40	27.5, 28.7
Felipe Massa	DNF	20	0	None recorded	—
Jarno Trulli	DNF	18	0	None recorded	—

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Sebastian Vettel · Mark Webber	1 · 3	1 · 2	15 · 14	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Fernando Alonso	1 · 2	1 · 9	15 · 7	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Mark Webber	2 · 3	9 · 2	7 · 14	Fernando Alonso	Swapped places
Mark Webber · Rubens Barrichello	3 · 4	2 · 4	14 · 19	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Mark Webber · Jenson Button	3 · 5	2 · 3	14 · 19	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Rubens Barrichello · Jenson Button	4 · 5	4 · 3	19 · 19	Same lap	Swapped places
Rubens Barrichello · Heikki Kovalainen	4 · 12	4 · 5	19 · 34	Rubens Barrichello	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Heikki Kovalainen	9 · 12	6 · 5	33 · 34	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Swapped places
Nick Heidfeld · Heikki Kovalainen	11 · 12	12 · 5	18 · 34	Nick Heidfeld	Swapped places
Kimi Raikkonen · Sir Lewis Hamilton	8 · 9	10 · 6	27 · 33	Kimi Raikkonen	Swapped places
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Timo Glock	9 · 19	6 · 7	33 · 24	Timo Glock	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Sébastien Buemi	9 · 10	6 · 8	33 · 19	Sébastien Buemi	Kept their order
Sébastien Buemi · Timo Glock	10 · 19	8 · 7	19 · 24	Sébastien Buemi	Swapped places
Adrian Sutil · Timo Glock	18 · 19	17 · 7	4 · 24	Adrian Sutil	Swapped places
Timo Glock · Giancarlo Fisichella	19 · 20	7 · 14	24 · 33	Timo Glock	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Sébastien Buemi	2 · 10	9 · 8	7 · 19	Fernando Alonso	Swapped places
Sébastien Buemi · Nick Heidfeld	10 · 11	8 · 12	19 · 18	Nick Heidfeld	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Kimi Raikkonen	2 · 8	9 · 10	7 · 27	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Nico Rosberg · Kimi Raikkonen	7 · 8	15 · 10	5 · 27	Nico Rosberg	Swapped places
Kimi Raikkonen · Sébastien Bourdais	8 · 15	10 · 11	27 · 30	Kimi Raikkonen	Kept their order
Nick Heidfeld · Sébastien Bourdais	11 · 15	12 · 11	18 · 30	Nick Heidfeld	Swapped places
Sébastien Bourdais · Nelson Piquet Jr.	15 · 16	11 · 16	30 · 21	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Kept their order
Nick Heidfeld · Robert Kubica	11 · 17	12 · 13	18 · 17	Robert Kubica	Kept their order
Nelson Piquet Jr. · Robert Kubica	16 · 17	16 · 13	21 · 17	Robert Kubica	Swapped places
Robert Kubica · Giancarlo Fisichella	17 · 20	13 · 14	17 · 33	Robert Kubica	Kept their order
Robert Kubica · Adrian Sutil	17 · 18	13 · 17	17 · 4	Adrian Sutil	Kept their order
Nico Rosberg · Giancarlo Fisichella	7 · 20	15 · 14	5 · 33	Nico Rosberg	Swapped places
Nico Rosberg · Nelson Piquet Jr.	7 · 16	15 · 16	5 · 21	Nico Rosberg	Kept their order
Nelson Piquet Jr. · Adrian Sutil	16 · 18	16 · 17	21 · 4	Adrian Sutil	Kept their order

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Practice 3

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	1	1:37.334	—	0 m	—	22
2	Jenson Button	Brawn GP	22	1:37.450	+0.116	6 m	+0.116	18
3	Rubens Barrichello	Brawn GP	23	1:37.566	+0.232	13 m	+0.116	19
4	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	2	1:37.672	+0.338	19 m	+0.106	23
5	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	14	1:37.752	+0.418	23 m	+0.080	20
6	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	9	1:37.764	+0.430	24 m	+0.012	19
7	Nico Rosberg	Williams	16	1:37.860	+0.526	29 m	+0.096	24
8	Timo Glock	Toyota	10	1:37.894	+0.560	31 m	+0.034	21
9	Fernando Alonso	Renault	7	1:38.089	+0.755	42 m	+0.195	19
10	Sébastien Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	11	1:38.195	+0.861	48 m	+0.106	24
11	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	4	1:38.223	+0.889	50 m	+0.028	23
12	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	15	1:38.274	+0.940	53 m	+0.051	20
13	Sébastien Buemi	Scuderia Toro Rosso	12	1:38.307	+0.973	54 m	+0.033	26
14	Adrian Sutil	Force India	20	1:38.319	+0.985	55 m	+0.012	18
15	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	3	1:38.418	+1.084	61 m	+0.099	20
16	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	6	1:38.456	+1.122	63 m	+0.038	21
17	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	21	1:38.460	+1.126	63 m	+0.004	19
18	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	5	1:38.463	+1.129	63 m	+0.003	18
19	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	17	1:38.730	+1.396	78 m	+0.267	25
20	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	8	1:38.825	+1.491	84 m	+0.095	20

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Jenson Button	Brawn GP	22	1:35.679	—	0 m	—	35
2	Nico Rosberg	Williams	16	1:35.704	+0.025	1 m	+0.025	36
3	Rubens Barrichello	Brawn GP	23	1:35.881	+0.202	12 m	+0.177	35
4	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	14	1:36.105	+0.426	24 m	+0.224	32
5	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	15	1:36.167	+0.488	28 m	+0.062	22
6	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	9	1:36.217	+0.538	31 m	+0.050	42
7	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	17	1:36.377	+0.698	40 m	+0.160	32
8	Timo Glock	Toyota	10	1:36.548	+0.869	50 m	+0.171	40
9	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	2	1:36.674	+0.995	57 m	+0.126	34
10	Sébastien Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	11	1:36.800	+1.121	64 m	+0.126	34
11	Adrian Sutil	Force India	20	1:36.829	+1.150	66 m	+0.029	30
12	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	3	1:36.847	+1.168	67 m	+0.018	34
13	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	1	1:36.941	+1.262	72 m	+0.094	28
14	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	4	1:37.054	+1.375	78 m	+0.113	33
15	Sébastien Buemi	Scuderia Toro Rosso	12	1:37.219	+1.540	88 m	+0.165	34
16	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	8	1:37.273	+1.594	91 m	+0.054	36
17	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	5	1:37.491	+1.812	103 m	+0.218	34
18	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	6	1:37.544	+1.865	106 m	+0.053	28
19	Fernando Alonso	Renault	7	1:37.638	+1.959	112 m	+0.094	28
20	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	21	1:37.750	+2.071	118 m	+0.112	31

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Nico Rosberg	Williams	16	1:36.133	—	0 m	—	17
2	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	9	1:36.272	+0.139	8 m	+0.139	22
3	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	1	1:36.330	+0.197	11 m	+0.058	17
4	Jenson Button	Brawn GP	22	1:36.463	+0.330	19 m	+0.133	16
5	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	8	1:36.464	+0.331	19 m	+0.001	16
6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	3	1:36.528	+0.395	22 m	+0.064	18
7	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	2	1:36.547	+0.414	23 m	+0.019	13
8	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	17	1:36.560	+0.427	24 m	+0.013	17
9	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	4	1:36.568	+0.435	25 m	+0.008	17
10	Rubens Barrichello	Brawn GP	23	1:36.642	+0.509	29 m	+0.074	17
11	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	6	1:36.702	+0.569	32 m	+0.060	14
12	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	5	1:36.742	+0.609	35 m	+0.040	14
13	Sébastien Buemi	Scuderia Toro Rosso	12	1:36.742	+0.609	35 m	+0.000	16
14	Sébastien Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	11	1:36.834	+0.701	40 m	+0.092	17
15	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	14	1:37.330	+1.197	68 m	+0.496	8
16	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	15	1:37.349	+1.216	69 m	+0.019	7
17	Adrian Sutil	Force India	20	1:37.534	+1.401	79 m	+0.185	17
18	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	21	1:37.732	+1.599	91 m	+0.198	18
19	Fernando Alonso	Renault	7	1:38.003	+1.870	106 m	+0.271	6
20	Timo Glock	Toyota	10	1:39.110	+2.977	169 m	+1.107	6

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

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Where this comes from

Round: 3 of 2009
Grand Prix: Chinese Grand Prix
Dates: 19 Apr 2009
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Red Bull Racing
Entrant: Red Bull-Renault
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.