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2009 German GP: Race Results

Jeff — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:47:56 +0000

Nico Rosberg on a 1 stop strategy picks up 11 spots and Lewis Hamilton on lap 1 looses 13. Mark Webber goes on to overcome a drive through penalty and win his first Grand Prix in 130 starts.

Sunday Race Results:

Position (Points)	Driver	Team	Laps	Time	Gain/Loss
1 (10)	Webber	Red Bull Racing	60	1:36:43.310	-
2 (8)	Vettel	Red Bull Racing	60	+9.2 secs	+2
3 (6)	Massa	Scuderia Ferrari	60	+15.9 secs	+5
4 (5)	Rosberg	Williams	60	+21.0 secs	+11
5 (4)	Button	Brawn GP	60	+23.6 secs	-2
6 (3)	Barrichello	Brawn GP	60	+24.4 secs	-4
7 (2)	Alonso	Renault	60	+24.8 secs	+5
8 (1)	Kovalainen	McLaren Mercedes	60	+58.6 secs	-2
9	Glock	Toyota	60	+61.4 secs	+11
10	Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	60	+61.9 secs	+1
11	Fisichella	Force India	60	+62.3 secs	+7
12	Nakajima	Williams	60	+62.8 secs	+1
13	Piquet	Renault	60	+68.3 secs	-3
14	Kubica	BMW Sauber	60	+69.5 secs	+2
15	Sutil	Force India	60	+71.9 secs	-8
16	Buemi	Scuderia Toro Rosso	60	+90.2 secs	+1
17	Trulli	Toyota	60	+90.9 secs	-3
18	Hamilton	McLaren Mercedes	59	+1	-13
19	Raikkonen	Scuderia Ferrari	34	DNF	-10
20	Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	18	DNF	-1

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2009 German GP: Qualifying Results

Jeff — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:07:19 +0000

Saturday Qualifying Results:

Position	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Weight (kg)
1	Webber	Red Bull Racing	1:31.257	1:38.038	1:32.230	661
2	Barrichello	Brawn GP	1:31.482	1:34.455	1:32.357	647
3	Button	Brawn GP	1:31.568	1:39.032	1:32.473	644
4	Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1:31.430	1:39.504	1:32.480	661
5	Hamilton	McLaren Mercedes	1:31.473	1:39.149	1:32.616	654.5
6	Kovalainen	McLaren Mercedes	1:31.881	1:40.826	1:33.859	664
7	Sutil	Force India	1:32.015	1:36.740	1:34.316	678.5
8	Massa	Scuderia Ferrari	1:31.600	1:41.708	1:34.574	673.5
9	Raikkonen	Scuderia Ferrari	1:31.869	1:41.730	1:34.710	674
10	Piquet	Renault	1:32.128	1:35.737	1:34.803	676
11	Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:31.771	1:42.310		681
12	Alonso	Renault	1:31.302	1:42.318		668.2
13	Nakajima	Williams	1:31.884	1:42.500		683.6
14	Trulli	Toyota	1:31.760	1:42.771		683.7
15	Rosberg	Williams	1:31.598	1:42.859		689.6
16	Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:32.190			673.5
17	Buemi	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:32.251			674.5
18	Fisichella	Force India	1:32.402			662.5
19	Glock	Toyota	1:32.423			689.5
20	Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:33.559			662.3

photo credit ©XPB

2009 German GP: Friday Practice Results

Jeff — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:00:27 +0000

Friday Practice 1 Results:

Position	Driver	Team	Time	Laps
1	Webber	Red Bull Racing	1:33.082	19
2	Button	Brawn GP	1:33.463	18
3	Massa	Scuderia Ferrari	1:33.745	21
4	Trulli	Toyota	1:33.795	23
5	Fisichella	Force India	1:33.839	26
6	Raikkonen	Scuderia Ferrari	1:33.840	23
7	Rosberg	Williams	1:33.902	26
8	Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1:33.909	13
9	Nakajima	Williams	1:33.952	25
10	Alonso	Renault	1:34.148	16
11	Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:34.221	25
12	Barrichello	Brawn GP	1:34.227	17
13	Hamilton	McLaren Mercedes	1:34.483	14
14	Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:34.692	23
15	Piquet	Renault	1:34.738	24
16	Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:34.827	27
17	Buemi	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:34.878	28
18	Kovalainen	McLaren Mercedes	1:34.893	26
19	Glock	Toyota	1:34.991	23
20	Sutil	Force India	1:35.092	6

Friday Practice 2 Results:

Position	Driver	Team	Time	Laps
1	Hamilton	McLaren Mercedes	1:32.149	23
2	Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1:32.331	31
3	Button	Brawn GP	1:32.369	32
4	Webber	Red Bull Racing	1:32.480	28
5	Trulli	Toyota	1:32.511	32
6	Sutil	Force India	1:32.585	32
7	Barrichello	Brawn GP	1:32.664	26
8	Alonso	Renault	1:32.774	24
9	Nakajima	Williams	1:32.872	32
10	Piquet	Renault	1:32.992	29
11	Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:33.012	36
12	Massa	Scuderia Ferrari	1:33.052	34
13	Rosberg	Williams	1:33.128	34
14	Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:33.161	28
15	Glock	Toyota	1:33.172	34
16	Raikkonen	Scuderia Ferrari	1:33.182	29
17	Kovalainen	McLaren Mercedes	1:33.724	27
18	Buemi	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:33.903	30
19	Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:34.025	30
20	Fisichella	Force India	1:38.877	3

Ecclestone cancels Grand Prix apperance

Jeff — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:13:56 +0000

The fallout of Bernie Ecclestone’s ‘Hitler’ interview continued on Tuesday as it emerged the F1 chief executive reportedly called off a scheduled appearance at the Nurburgring circuit this weekend.

After describing the outrage sparked by his Hitler comments as a ‘big misunderstanding’ in the German press, Ecclestone has now turned to the English-speaking print media to apologize for his comments.

“What I regret is people who have taken this the wrong way and have been offended, I’m really, really sad about because I have done an awful lot for the Jewish community, charities and whatever,” Ecclestone said.

For obvious reasons, a leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union party could not at this time be meeting with a man accused of sympathizing with tyrant Adolf Hitler. The decision of German state premier Gunther Oettinger to cancel his meeting with Ecclestone this weekend was interpreted as a blow to Hockenheim’s hopes of retaining its F1 race.

But Auto Motor und Sport reports that the alternate Nurburgring meeting on Sunday is still to take place, with a lawyer or another representative of the Baden-Wurttemberg state to join Ecclestone instead.

“As far as I’m concerned I am to meet him at 12 o’clock on Sunday. Nobody has said anything to the contrary to me,” Ecclestone said.