Jenson Button has taken his second win in a row, after a crazy race in Malaysia. It started off excitingly enough, with loads of great racing, and ended, well, under a cloud.
The race was abandoned just after half race distance due to a huge downpour – which even knocked the telly picture out for a bit – and at the end of lap 31, Jenson was in the lead, followed by BMW’s Nick Heidfeld, and then Toyota’s Timo Glock.
Glock benefited hugely when it started to rain thanks to canny tyre choices, being on the right rubber at the right time. Heidfeld got on the wet tyres at an opportune moment and stayed with them to get second, despite having a spin.
Jarno Trulli got up to fourth, Rubens Barrichello ended in fifth, followed by Webber, Hamilton and Rosberg.
Due to the race not going the full distance, the drivers have been awarded half points, which is going to look funny on our screens for the rest of the year. But none of that should take away from the great job Button did today, banging in fastest lap times when he needed to, much like Michael Schumacher would do for Ross Brawn back in the day.
Talking of Ferrari, they finish their second consecutive race in a row without any points, which must be making for a very uncomfortable time in the Scuderia. How bizarre is it to have no Ferraris and no McLarens in the top ten of the World Drivers Championship?
Will Jenson manage to win a race without a safety car some time this year? Judging by his current form, you’d think it likely.
I like it. They award 1/2 points. I really want the championship to be decided by 1/2 a point. That would be fantastic.
Congrats to Jenson Button, Great win. However i do think that today the FIA showed to the world that they are completetly incompetent and are not capable of making a proper decision. I think that it is absolutely ridiculous that it took an hour to finally call off the race i hope someone gets punished for it.
yet another bad decision by Ferrari. They better do well next time.
Good for Button!
What is stupid is these late starts or “Twilight” starts. Who races into a setting sun or at a time where you could almost set your watch by when it rains.
Ha, its kinda weird to see none of the top guys in the top anymore!
No Lewis, Kimi, Massa or Alonso. This year has turned the whole thing upside down. All the top teams are underperforming like Ferrari, Mclaren and Renault while all the bottom teams are on the top!! Apart from Force India. They remain at the bottom!
Ferrari’s really gotta do something now if they’ve got a chance this season.
Looks like Brawn and Toyota are the new Ferrari and Mclaren!!
Lewis would have won if they had continued
Oh and Ferrari needs to really sort out their team strategy first before sorting out the car!!
They made two completely awful decisions this weekend! First to not let Massa out for Q2 of qualifying and then today to put Kimi on full wets at the worst possible time!!
They’re making more of a mess this year already than they did last year which costed Massa the championship!
Well, what a great 1/2 race that really was. Not really much to talk about though. But good to see Mark Webber get a nice round 2.5 points, and a very well done to Jensen Button again. I really think he’s in with a shot at the Championship!
It was a joy to watch the first hour today!
Hilarious at the start when Toyota were trying to hide their diffuser from Martin Brundle!
Great drives from a number of drivers – Glock, Heidfeld, Hamilton, Massa and of course Jenson Button!
Let’s hope it stays this interesting throughout the rest of the season.
Oh yeah, it was kinda funny seeing ‘Iceman’ Kimi Raikkönen tucking into a Magnum in a shirt & shorts during pouring rain!
Nothing is too cool for the Iceman.
That was a great race! Huge thunder storms, buckets of rain and loads of pit stops. Great win for Button, huge congrats from me. I’ve also got to give some credit to the team, they were fantastic. they dealt with the biblical weather incredibly. Not so hearty congrats for ferrari, they don’t need to keep taking unnecessary gambles.
One question though; if F1 died-out a few years ago because Ferrari and Mclaren dominated every race, will it die-out again if Brawn and Toyota dominate?
Webber got 0,5 points, he finished 8th.
Such a shame a good race was ruined by water. I suppose some positions were very provisional when the race stopped, the whole race would probably have finished differently after some other pit stops. Someone tell Ecclestone no one wants to start a race at 5 PM
2 races in. It looks really tight in the tables from 3rd down.
CONSTRUCTOR STANDINGS
01 Brawn-Mercedes 25
02 Toyota 16.5
03 BMW Sauber 4
04 Renault 4
05 Williams-Toyota 3.5
06 STR-Ferrari 3
07 RBR-Renault 1.5
08 McLaren-Mercedes 1
09 Force India-Mercedes 0
10 Ferrari 0
The FIA were being moronic. My partner is from Malaysia and she says that almost every day at around 6-7pm it rains like fury in Malaysia. Eddie Jordan was trying to justify the FIA’s decision to race at 5pm by saying the decision was made six months ago. That’s still bull because this weather pattern has gone on for decades, and only really stops a bit during peak summer season.
Slightly disappointed by today’s race. Maybe the FIA will smarten up a bit next year.
Bugatti Man.
You must have mistaken Heidfeld with Hamilton
.
Hamilton did not show anything special.
Did you see how easily Vettel overtook Hamilton?
I liked the fight Weber- Hamilton. Hamilton had a car with KERS ( which gave him a considerable advantage on this circuit) Weber did not have KERS, he had skills. Who won in the end?
Which shows that: in an average car, Hamilton is an average driver.
Generally the two first races show that it’s a car which really matters. Drives who did not matter much last year, now suddenly they drive like champions.
The thing is that F1 drivers are carefully selected (apart from very few), the diference between their skills is minimal.
Stop that bullshit about Hamilton. It’s becoming really boring.
@ comment 10: maybe we should start calling him “The Ice-cream man”?
…Ferrari should learn from Toyota’s strategy plans. Toyota’s great tyre choice was a great plan, Glock had the most grip at the right time. Well done Toyota for some clever thinking and a great strategy.
Bugatti Man – Lewis would have won if they had continued
man, were u even watchin the race! the only reason he got up that far was cause of a well timed pitstop!!
Sleepy_Hollow
When you compare Hamiltons performance alongisde 2 times former world champ Alonso, former champ Kimi, former runner up Massa. Then he is still considerably ahead.
And again, simply look at the time he posted down at Top Gear presuming they didn’t fudge the time. He smashed Button. Allbeit am happy for Jensen, he’s my favourite driver, a total dude and a nice guy.
But half points? Not fair i’d say. Jensen would normally have a two point advantage over 2nd place? 10,8,6,5,4,3,2,1 etc. But this way 1st, 2nd and 3rd were only seperated by a point. What’s the point in dishing out half points? Is a win not a win?
The FIA should recieve flak for putting this race on when everyone knew the possibility of rain destroying the outcome.
The last time a race screwed up this bad was America, and the fans demanded their money back!
A few years ago they had the Indy Cars on the Gold Coast in Australia. Pouring rain. Quite comical as they do a rolling start with bugger all visability. About 5 cars down the grid a car spun and took out the rest of the pack.
great race! Go Brawn GP! No red cars score point! wohooo!!
By the way, Why did they change wet tires without signs of rain on kimi’s car?? how stupid was that?? even a ten year old will know that it is not right time to change a tire.
It was an enjoyable race. I loved the Trulli > Webber > Glock > Vettel battle that was going on.
Ferrari showed yet more incompetence in their decision making.
Well done Button and Brawn, he really pulled away with it once he got back into the lead.
@Sleepy Hollow
You cant criticise hamilton for losing his duel with Webber. He had no 6th gear.
what a f@ck end to the race. ferrari are acting like a bunch of unorganised stupids what are they thinking???? and hammy as usual got lucky again.
One of the funniest part of the Grand Prix was when Martin Brundle was having a look at Toyota’s diffuser and the team were standing around trying not to let him see it. Here is a huge picture of the diffuser:
http://premium.f1-live.co m/f1/photos-hires/2009/te sts75/diapo_129.jpg
Well done again Jenson/Brawn!! Great race (who says F1 cars don’t overtake?!) up until the anti-climatic end BUT there was a cloud over my mood from the start because it seemed obvious to everyone that the torrenial rain would most probably come down and red flag the race at any time. Don’t get me wrong, of course you can’t always predict the weather at any track but when the chances of heavy rain are this high (given the location/time of day) and staging it this late in the day…absolutely ridiculous.
I’ll repeat everyone else and say that i’m very disappointed that the FIA didn’t start the race an hour earlier – it’s all very well Eddie Jordon (christ that man annoys me!!) trying to justify it but from what i’ve heard so far – it’s always been common knowleadge in Maylasia that these sort of deluges occur at that time of day (twilight). The weather’s always a gamble, sure, but this was just waiting to happen and everyone seemed to know it. Hope they sort it out for next year.
Anyway, enough whining! As well as Button, was very impressed with Glock, Alonso, Rosberg and Webber. Hamilon was so-so but not a threat.
*correction – yes, I just remembered about Hamiltons 6th gear/rev limiter problems, so fair enough!
why does’nt the FIA post the gp2 race after f1 race or before atleat 1 or 2 hrs earlier.
@Steve: How can you be impressed with Alonso, when Hamilton in a slower car, started lower in the grid and yet finished ahead of both Renaults and Ferraris.
nice race with a lot of action, sad that it ended up this way…
biggest disappointment of all – my favorite team-Ferrari
good strategy kept hammy alive but then again if he would have gone through Q3 then probably had less fuel and thus would have gone pear shaped.
what happened to kovolainen?
5th gear i thought?
hammy did not even needed 6th gear in those slow bends
@29 Internet – for a start, I don’t believe the Mclaren is neccessarily a slower car then the Renault (they are both slow!) – I just think Alonso had worse tyre/pitstop strategies and bad luck.
Also, Alonso impressed me mainly because of the way he held off lighter cars when he was in 4th, in the early stages – he had one of the heavist cars.
Hamilton started ahead of Piquet & Massa. As for Raikkonen, he made a really bad decision when he went in for wets too early and destroyed them/lost LOADS of time – so Hamilton beat them…big deal.
*also, Martin Brundle commented that he thought that the Mclaren KERS was probably the best boost system on the grid.
@ 12 – the fia decided the order at the end of lap 31, so the finishing order is the order written in the blog article.
@ 16 – Yes! His KERS could power an ice cream van’s loudspeaker!
Молодец! Когда был в хонде, приезжал в хвосте, а теперь в новой команде вторая победа подрял.
@Steve: Hamilton had a similarly fuelled car. Give credit where it’s due. In both OZ and Malaysia, he finished ahead of both Renault and Ferrari.
did the FIA bother looking out the window for nearly an hour or were they to pre-occupied in trying to think of a way of keeping a brit off the podium again.as they know its lobbing it down ,the lights fading,and most of the drivers dont want to race in those conditions,the FIA showed what some we all knew . it was too wet too late,go back to starting at the normal time and i’ll get my ass out of bed on a sunday a bit earlier,it aint much of a problem but it apparently it is for the FIA…idiots
this is noobish FERRARI IS THE BEST,so **** the rest
Lol,why does it take ages for FIA to call off the race,u know in asia,u cant possibly drive a car at 6.30 pm with out a headlights.
nakajima was good.hamilton have luck on his side like always.And after 14.04. ferrari will beat them all.
If they only covered a tenth of the distance, what would they be awarded? 1 point for the win? 0.8% point for 2nd, and so on….This is getting retarded!
I wish they would be sensible and not go by playground rules….
good race agane button done a good job and team brawn gp must be happey but did it take so longe to finish the race mabye half point should come in it make it moor intresting.
very disappointed by ferrari in general (and im a huge ferrari fan). the wet tyres for kimi were a ridiculous gamble at that time, and i believe it’s the team’s fault, not kimi’s. in the end of the race kimi was really upset, and when interviewed, colajanni said that kimi was keen to restart the race.. what a joke! and no mention at all about the embarassing pit stop, athough indirectly questioned about that.
button did well but was a bit lucky: with the right strategy, trulli, glock or rosberg could have won.
and did anyone notice the toyota mechanic under the podium? he briefly showed a banner and i could spot just the word “LIE”.. it was probabily something against hamilton/mclaren.
its been a nice sunday morning by the way.
cannot wait for china :p
@Internet – yes, fair enough, Hamilton did pretty well in both races and yes, he finished ahead of the Renaults and the Ferraris BUT for me, finishing in front doesn’t neccessarily always reflect how well a driver has driven. In this instance – I have been more impressed by Alonso, so we’ll have to agree to disagree on that one
As i said before, he should be at McLaren.
As I’ve already said, many good drives today with Hamilton being one of them…
Why do so many people posting here then put all the other great drives down to drivers and Hamilton’s is just “luck”. He can only be “lucky” so many times before you have to reassess your opinion!
He is driving an average car (at best), but he is far from an average driver. 4th from 18th (pre-cheating), 7th from 12th. Yes other drivers are doing better, but then a lot are doing worse with better machinery (think red).
Yes, Lewis is far from a role model with all the controversy, but boy can he drive – and that is what he should be judged on. I don’t recall Mr Schumacher being “lucky” when he out drove (and out cheated)during his early career!
I dont think you can compare Lewis Hamilton to Micheal Schumacher just yet, ok during the majority of his career Schumacher had a top car but you always felt what ever you put him in he could do it. I just dont have the same feeling with Hamilton
Well done Button keep up the good work and continue to prove you are Britains top driver.
Thats my country, you either get Freakin hot day or Crazy Lighing storm rain, i laughed when the commentator said lighting stuck the grandstand and shorted the signal for a few seconds. And also while everyone when everyone was wet, Kimi went to get a ice cream, that was a CAMMRAD moment if any
hahaha the first half of the race was AWESOME! until that damned rain storm came down.. proves what kind of stupid decisions the FIA, bernie in particular, are willing to make to get a few more viewers. bunch o idiots.
real happy for button, been a fan of him since the Honda days. really happy to see him in a car he deserves, he can really perform when the performance is needed, for those 2 laps before his first pit stop did anyone else see his times drop by a bloody second and went into 1:36 territory which no one else dipped into?
Button is doing amazing. Bring him on Top Gear!
Totally agree with Buggati Man – Lewis would have won if the carried on coz he rocks and i hate Button.
You know the BBC code of conduct for forums like this?
It says that you shouldnt post spoilers on the website- uhhh wats this then i havent watched the last bit of the race yet so that is spoiling it for me. WHATS YOUR ANSWER TO THAT BBC? HUH? HUH? exactly. :-X B-P
i meant
B-)
i meant B-) or does that emoticon not work here?
no it doesnt oh well i think you know it meant the dude with sunglasses!
I totally also agree with Hamfan! At least there are still people out there like us dude!
uros don’t be ridiculous,brawn are the greatest,ferrari are c**p compared to them!
Isn’t it daft how FOM changed the race start to 5pm to make it more accessible to European viewers, then we only get to see half a race? D’oh!
It was a great race with loads of overtaking. I think I saw Webber and Alonso overtake each other three times during half a lap! There was more action today than a regular full-length GP.
Interesting to see Ferrari make two huge cock-ups in one race weekend. Are their strategic brains starting to slip?
@#17, I don’t think the Toyota strategy was particularly clever, they just seemed to read the weather better and choose the right tyre for Glock, ie. intermediates first instead of jumping straight onto full-wets.
@#28, the GP2 round isn’t held after the F1 race because GP2 is a support race, less people would hang around after the F1 had finished. Same goes for gigs, the supporting acts always go on first
@steve- is it just me or is someone jealous of a truly gr8 F1 driver here?????
@internet- Totally agree with you!
Good thing the FIA aren’t a F1 team because if they were they have the cars torn apart in the pit line before the race!
Although the big names have been underperforming this year so far I think they are catching up. These big teams are good at what they do and it won’t be long before they are on top again. The quetion is, though, by the time they have pulled themselves together will it be to late to reverse the damage. At there current rate of improvemnt it will be close but we all love dramatic ends to F1 championships. Unless the people we support lose of course.
To add a important comment:
MCLAREN RULEs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!
Also
HAMILTON RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
@MB09 – I was not comparing Hamilton to Schumacher’s whole career, merely the early years. Back then Schumacher was a very different driver when compared to the rest of the field; aggressive, confident and exiting to watch. Hamilton proved last year that he had something the rest didn’t have – balls! Do you recall the way he drove round the outside of Massa and Piquet after a strategic mistake at Hockenheim, and his driving in the wet at Spa was simply amazing.
Today he was hanging on to much faster and lighter cars before the rain, although I was disappointed with his pace when the rain came… Even then his duel with Webber was awesome.
You can’t take anything away from Button though. His super smooth driving style seems to get the best out of the Brawn car. He was great in wet and dry today, I just hope that we can see him wheel to wheel with Lewis at some point this season more equal machinery (Hurry up with that diffuser McLaren!).
I HATE HIM!!! When he was in Honda – he was an idiot! So…
FERRARI RULES!!!
Button can, as in Malaysia we’ll say Button boleh!!!!
Come on Button win some more, mate!!!
That Brundle episode with the Toyota diffuser was the funniest thing on F1 in ages, especially when he told the guy from Williams: ‘Have you seen Toyota’s diffuser? It’s very interesting.’
Go Jenson and possibly Lewis!
Very good tactical from Ross Brawn and a mistake for ferrari. Toyota was good too.
Ferrari are so dissapointing.. the decision to change kimi’s tyres before the rain started, appears to be so stupid, it’s suspicious!
But kovalainen’s few racing yards so far are a bigger question mark.
Brawn-mercedes and toyota are very ahead of the competition and fairly so..
..and all of this makes this season the most interesting in recent years.
They changed the point distribution with the sole motive of breaking the point gap in between teams…
@browntherockcat – why would i be jealous of Lewis Hamilton in particular, why not Vettel, Alonso, Kubica etc etc ?? No, it has nothing to do with being jealous of ANY F1 drivers – I totally admire their skill and bravery. Silly thing to say.
In fact, I don’t have a problem with Lewis at all – it seems people have more of a problem with me because I rate other drivers above him. It’s like Man Utd fans having a go at me because I don’t support their football club.It’s called freedom of choice and personally, he isn’t my favourite driver,why does that bother you so much?
I loved it when Martin tried to get a glimpse of the Toyota diffuser :p was laughing my ass off when he crouched and peeked trough the toyota henchmen…
Then when he got the Williams guy I really got cracking when he told them that they should try to take a look at the diffuser because it was very entertaining
I always watched F1 on a Belgian sportchannel.. but from now on I’m hooked on the BBC’s version
y did bbc say who one before the screening on bbc3 we have to work sunday avoided the news all day u gave the result before the race began THanks a lot bring back itv
MAN!! The FIA has to try to understand their own rules before imposing them on anyone else (and fining away as they tend to do). Waiting an hour for a race is seriously unacceptable. Kimi’s made me smile though: everyone wass still out getting soked, while he was inside enjoying an icecream. Superbe. Just do think some actual points might be handier next time around..
If the race had continued, I don’t think Button would of won the race as Button was not fueled to the finsh, Hiedfeld’s tires were gone, and Glock wasn’t fuelled to the finish. It would of probably be won by Piquet or Alonso or another heavily fueeled car- nearly like what happened last year in 1 GP (Forgot which one) that ended up having Piquet finishing in P2.
Well done, again to Jenson, Ross, Nick, Andy and all the team, long may it continue
@1: That’s exactly what happened back in ‘76 with James Hunt. It would be really cool to see it happen again!
comment 46 if he was in mclaren he would be loosing cause they havent got it right yet
massa is a arse
@ Сибиряк (46)
I agree…
sorry messed up…
I should have said:
@ Сибиряк (36)
I agree…
well done to jenson button
martin brundell pit walk was brill the toyotas no there is someting illegal with the diffuser
4:00 pm is late enough for this GP as it’s only 9:00am in britain
a great race for brawn GP but ferrari and mclaren realy need to sort the cars and stragegy out and i was annoyed that to much rain stoped it.
Anyone notice that Glock has ‘Glockdog’ written in big gold letters on the back of his helmet???
So what’s the big deal with bolting some WRC-style headlamps upfront and continuing the race?
) I know it will mess up the aerodynamics and it will be nearly impossible to figure out who’s who on the track, but how entertaining would that be!!
McLaren seem to be 1 step ahead there
) – http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=nOl_p3gyrD0
Some of you half wits should pay attention to the F1 rules instead of having a go at the FIA for stopping the race, awarding half points, etc. Just cos you’ve been away for years whilst it hasn’t been so good doesn’t mean you need to come back now that its good again and talk out your arse.
Once the diffuser situation is sorted out Ferrari, McLaren and Reanult will close the gap to Brawn and then we’re going to see some even closer racing. Till then Jenson is going to win every race cos he’s in a league of his own in terms of the whole car+driver package.
NP, me and my brother thought that very amusing. Do you think that’s what his mates call him, or that’s what he calls himself?
J-Dog
Great to see Glock(dog!)on the podium – he really does seem like a likeable effervescent kind of fella. I still can’t help thinking of him as ‘Tim O’Glock’ from his Jordon days
Woof
Congratulations to Button and the entire Brawn squad.
McLaren must be sh###ing bricks. How can the Brawn cars be so far ahead of them when they are using the same drivetrain.
Surely the big guns (McLaren and Ferrari) didn’t get their aerodynamics THAT wrong?
@93, thats cuz McLaren have no downforce on their car. They really screwed up the aerodynamics with the new rule changes.
For them its like driving that Koneigsegg CCX without a rear spoiler!
and again in F1 everything needs to be just right cuz if you’re slow by even a 10th of a second, you’ll find yourself at the back of the field… So its not an easy job getting the car set up just right…
And somehow Brawn have just managed to do that!! Somehow!!!
got that was a weird race .. but most of all .. i liked the look on Brawns face .. during the downpour .. when he was carrying that thing for the tires .. the man just looked lost.. he just felt in another world
I was never sure Button had the skill or drive in him to be a champ but his recent races have changed my mind. The whole team and him seem to have a renewed enthusiasm under the skillful management of Brawn, they are a force to be reckoned with. I wouldn’t bet against them winning this season, even when the other teams catch up with their latest diffuser designs.
i don’t get why should there be half-points awarded. Button could have crashed or anyone else could have crashed and the outcome might be very different. lewis ro massa could have catched up. very dissapointed
Great race c@#$&^ up by bernies decision to start late. ferrari screwed up again on a weekend when kimi destroyed massa. good show by jens tho.
- Great drive by Button: the 2 laps before pitting were champion-grade
- Loved the Webber-Hamilton dice – classic, and what we all hoped to see with a mix of KERS and non-KERS cars
- half-points for half the distance has been the rule since the year dot; makes sense (unless you finish the year with just a half-point
- I’ve never understood how adjusting start times for the European audience makes the series more global? Worked well here in Melbourne but clearly less than ideal in Malaysia (nice understatement, huh?)
button,world champion 2009?,,ferrari,toyota,BMW must do sumthing!get faster!
I love Ferrari fans. Apparently Hamilton has been lucky for over 2 years now even though he had a gear box break in final race of teh season to cost him a championship.
I know why Button has been doing well latey. And why he has not previously.
COULTHARD is not on the track this year.
chock ice and a canacoke – breakfast of champions!
I’d love to know the genesis of the half points rule – I don’t really see the logic of it.
Either way, the FIA really showed themselves up – they demand such professionalism from the teams yet it was like amateur-hour from the red flag to the podium.
Real winners were BBC, no info from FIA, teams couldn’t tell them anything, only their second time out and no ad break to regroup – yet no dead air. Huzzar!
congrats to button and team….
but what has happened to ferrari and mclarens,not even a single driver’s point,i mean what are they doing.For the last few years its being ferrai and mclaren who were nose-to-nose with each other but now the tables have turned and its brawn and toyota who are doing it…hope to see some wins and driver’s point from the red hot ferrari.
‘Felipe, baby, stay cool!’ LMFAO!!!!!!!
As for Kimi, when they interviewed the ferrari guy and he said how they might still race if there’s a re-start, yet Kimi’s in a polo shirt, shorts and flip-flops, eating a magnum classic and drinking coke! LEGENDARY!!!!!!
what do you think about the boys doing a stock car challange.first an f2 car,second a 2 litre hot rod,and third the big ones.the f1 stock car,it would be class.
Probably one of the most tedious races ever waiting for the restart….by the way, the championship WAS decided by a half-point in 1985 with Alain Prost and Niki Lauda!
Shivank, Hamilton did get a point. A full one at that!
i think this is long overdue for jenson, and he deserves every minute of it. its great to see a “new” team come in and take the sport by storm. Toyota are also having some long overdue rewards to. and for me its greawt to see the Williams team heading back in the right direction.
hamilton – i’m not his biggest fan, but i far from dislike the guy, i think his performance this week was spoilt by the cock up by mclaren last week, which is still going on in the back of his mind
So would that have only counted for half a win in the future Bernie way of appointing a World Champion? Leave the point scoring alone!!!!
Just got back form Malaysia…
It really sucked to see half a race.. I was sitting on the turn one grandstand.. it would have been FANTASTIC if they restarted the race. We had 10 mins left when the rain completely stopped.
Sleepy Hollow, see what I mean?
Outstanding driving by Button. Didn’t panic when he dropped to 4th and drove some blinding laps to come out in front of Rosberg. A number of drivers did well, including Hamilton who obviously has a dog of a car. Bring on China and keep those diffusers!
Nice race for the time it lasted. And btw: you gotta admid: nice overtaking.
Well I can’t imagine Trulli walking up to him, and in his Italian voice ‘Hey Glockdog, what’s shakin?’ Anyone else see this happening???
Gutted Ferrari!!! So much for bringing something to F1! LOL they get paid 10% of the coverage profits because its agreed they bring heritage and fans to F1. Well they dont bring wins – so whats the point of them being there. I’d like to see them out of the next championship, it be interesting to see what would happen.
@116 Ferrai seem to be pretty much out of this championship already so are you not getting your wish this year.
jenson button rules, the new regulations have really helped him along and so has his new team
to Lloydy: what would happen is a lot less people would be watching the sport. tough sh!t. deal with it.
Button is an OK driver, it is Ross Brawn who pulled ACBC type of amazingness this year.
the race was great, the rules also applied by the book, it seems that last year’s underdogs were the rules and not the drivers, since due to the new rules, a new portion is winning and the other is not even qualifying, the opposite to last year.
well, as to hamilton-webber overtaking show, u should know that hamilton had a 25kg more of KERS which only gave him a boost for 6-8 seconds of the 100 seconds he is lapping so it is a dead load much than an aid. i think that mclaren rushed and worked on KERS even tho it is optional this year, while missing the aerodynamic part, everyone recall how pourly the aero-package works under rain, it showed in interlagos last year, when vettel passed hamilton easily in the closing laps, and it nearly costed us the championship. well, i am a formula 1 freak, i watch all races and listen to the analytical nonsense by the people on telly for hours and have read every post on the f1.com website and every rule, and i still do not know how the final classification was agreed upon, anyway, i hope that all the teams get up in shape, i saw a great race in australia, and i would like to see more great races.
please lewis, no more cheating, i am a big fan of you, but it is not worth it to cheat for 1 point!!!
I almost laughed when I saw the first two teams had more then 15 points in the constructors, and then everybody else had less then 5.
I think they should have made them finish, it would have been good to see if any of the drivers could handle the proper wet, like the old drivers; Jackie Stewart, for example.
After watching the race, Kimi is now my hero. While everyone was still sitting in their car, getting soaked, the Iceman park his car, got change, grab some ice cream and a can of pop…and he is getting paid to do that. How cool is that!
Yeahhhh!!kimi is the real hero!!he is the only world champion who is very struggle in Q3 at malaysia! the only ferrari runners on the track!!! i duno wat will happen if the championship rank will be count depend to the race won by drivers this year,huhh.. must be a bad dream 4 ferrari n mclaren,hehehe
remember all, the new rules state that the most wins decide the champion and not the most points
the new point rules will be on in next season is it?
if both ferrari kimi or massa will not be the world champion this year,i feel better to see button to be the world champion than hamilton…i started to hate especially his team since the spy case and latest “cheating strategy” this early season.
engineer, that rule is now planned for next season (I think). But that’s the point – even the FIA can’t keep up with their own rules -what chance do you and I have.
We saw a sitution where the drivers were leaving the track, nearly an hour after the red flag and not having a clue where they finished. “I came 5th, or 7th – Oh” “Sorry Trulli you didn’t come second”
Maybe I’ll check back here sometime next week when the FIA have picked a name from a hat.
Yeah, at the moment, the gold medal thing will happen next year. Although everyone seems to hate it so much I doubt it’ll happen.
hmm…i agree
@42: The half points rule has been on the books for over a quarter of a century. Maybe even longer. If a race is called before 75% distance, half points are awarded. Lauda beat Prost to the title by half a point in 1984.
The Australian GP in 1991 I think it was was about 14 laps. Half points were awarded.
Of course given the quality of posting on here, actual facts are largely irrelevant. “Wah wah FIA, *slurp slurp* Hamilton”. Most of you would just rather bitch and moan.
Hamilton drove a nothing race in a nothing car. He’s no more the new Senna than Taki Inoue was.
And all those bitching about Alonso, the man was ill and by his own admission was only about 90% fit.
@130: Not going to happen. FOTA want their new points system, and I think in the end, FOTA will be stronger than Bernie. One idiot vs all the teams.
I know who my money is on.
@steve it doesnt bother me at all its just i wish everyone who is smug because hamilton isnt doing so well would go and boil their stupid heads and then eat themselves. ITS THE START OF THE SEASON YOU THICKOS!
@TGN That is very important and i give you an imaginary hi-5 for that because Hamilton and Kovi rock! Mclaren also rocks and they will get better through the season. Did anyone here the commentator say that Mclaren car was the prettiest and best designed and the other drivers were just getting lucky?????? Take that!
@TGN 
well, if the commentator said it, it doesn’t mean its true!
i am a huge mclaren fan and a lewis fan on top of that, and i have been following up with the things that the team say, and folks, they are still not ready for it, there car is still down on the aero package, new aerodynamic rules are very demanding, hope they get it soon and get them fixed.
anyway, the others aren’t getting lucky, they are only doing what they have to do…and good for them
and for the record, the Mclaren car is the best looking car and the prettiest designed in my opinion, alongside with the RBR and STR cars
TGN and BrowntheRockCat u are complete idiots hav u seen how lewis and kova hav been driving this year. Button and Brawn for the win.
The question i always wonder is: if everyone was in the same car what would the finishing order.
I reckon Hamilton would just win being very closely followed by Alonso and Kubica. Vettel would cruise it home to 4th and i dont think Button, Raikonnen, Kovalainen, or Barrichello would be even be challenging these drivers they have only done well due to the cars they have been in
I gather Fangio said something along the lines of part of being a champion was making sure you always have the best car. So he changed teams often. Questionable loyalty but 5 championships!
Personally I prefer seeing drivers help build up a team’s cars into the best they can be. In reality, at least half the F1 drivers could be champion if they were in the best car.
@ya mum- fine have your opinion but let us have ours too. If you don’t want to do that then i will start being annoying. So SHUT UP or I’ll be annoying. You were never in this conversation originally so i dont see why you are suddenly butting in with your opinion.
HAMILTON AND MCLAREN ROCK!
@engineer- why not? Who ever heard of a lying commentator you’re just jealous! HA HA HA!!!
I see no one is around today.
oh well.
Weird. No one is around.
Why r peeps still offline?
like the wet win thing. It is true Button did have a pretty wet win and not in a literal sense. hes a wetty anyway- always playing Mr Nice Guy. His girlfriend is ugly.
LOOK Button is better than Hamilton!!
Button had a HORRIFIC 07′-08′ car and no-one saw him shone. The tables have turned since and who’s won the last two races? I think it was Jenson Button! Hamilton is just lucky he had the best car now he is a average driver.
P.D
S Look out for Buemi as well!
Even though I may not support the BRAWN GP team, I was quite amazed for their two wins! I mean, they’re new, Jenson Button was rubbish in 2008, but wow!
He is only good this year coz Fezza and Mclaren have given their drivers CRAP cars. Button has just got everything hand-fed to him. He’s not actually doing much, just making sure he looks Mr Nice Guy on camera.
@Ford Mondeo- Hamilton IS NOT AN AVERAGE DRIVER HOW MANY BLOODY TIMES! HAVE YOU READ HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY? I BET A MILLION THAT YOU HAVEN’T. DO YOU KNOW HIS TRUE STORY AND HOW MANY OTHER CHAMPIONSHIPS HE WON BEFORE F1? NO, YOU DON’T DO YOU? FORGET IT. LIVE WITH IT MR GUY.
ooooh Im Button. Look there’s a safety car and I know, I’ll claim I’m a good driver and won becasue i crossed the line first! FOR GOD’S SAKE HE ONLY RACED ABOUT TWO LAPS BEFORE THE SAFETY CAR TOOK OVER THE REST OF THE BLOODY RACE.
It was a soaking race. They should of raced boats instead.