Brawn GP Racing Team

CONGRATULATIONS TO JENSON BUTTON ONCE AGAIN!

Jenson with yet another steller drive at Istanbul to take another race win and take his point tally to 61 and extending Brawn GP's Championship lead by 39.5 points from Red Bull Racing.
A mistake by Vettel on the opening lap gave Jenson the lead and the opportunity to charge away in the opening sequence. Red bull decided to compromise Vettels race further by placing him on a 3 stop strategy compared to his team mates 2 stop allowing Webber to jump him during the pit stops. Vettels strategy issues were further compounded by Vettel coming up behind Jenson and not being able to put a move on him.
This all helps Jenson in his campaign for the Championship with Webber getting a bigger haul of points than his RBR counterpart.
Not such a great day for Rubens having ended up in anti stall off the grid and dropping from 3rd to 13th. Rubens then had a clash with Adrian Sutil getting frustrated at his clearly much faster pace. Rubens race was totally destroyed when he announced over the radio that he was racing without 7th gear and seems to be the reason for his retirement near the end of the race.

PROVISIONAL RACE RESULTS

The Turkish Grand Prix
Istanbul, Turkey;
58 laps; 309.396km;
Weather: Sunny.

Classified:

Pos  Driver        Time
 1.  Button        1h26:24.848
 2.  Webber        +     6.714
 3.  Vettel        +     7.461
 4.  Trulli        +    27.843
 5.  Rosberg       +    31.539
 6.  Massa         +    39.996
 7.  Kubica        +    46.247
 8.  Glock         +    46.959
 9.  Raikkonen     +    50.246
10.  Alonso        +  1:02.420
11.  Heidfeld      +  1:04.327
12.  Nakajima      +  1:06.376
13.  Hamilton      +  1:20.454
14.  Kovalainen    +     1 lap
15.  Buemi         +     1 lap
16.  Piquet        +     1 lap
17.  Sutil         +     1 lap
18.  Bourdais      +     1 lap

Fastest lap: Button, 1:27.579

Not classified/retirements:

Driver        Team                      On lap
Barrichello   Brawn GP-Mercedes     (B)    49
Fisichella    Force India-Mercedes  (B)    5

       
All timing unofficial

Pos  Driver                 Weight (kg)
 1.  Sebastian Vettel       649.5
 2.  Jenson Button          655.5
 3.  Rubens Barrichello     652.5
 4.  Mark Webber            656.0
 5.  Jarno Trulli           652.0
 6.  Kimi Raikkonen         658.0
 7.  Felipe Massa           654.0
 8.  Fernando Alonso        644.5
 9.  Nico Rosberg           660.0
10.  Robert Kubica          664.0
11.  Nick Heidfeld          681.5*
12.  Kazuki Nakajima        680.4*
13.  Timo Glock             689.0*
14.  Heikki Kovalainen      665.0*
15.  Adrian Sutil           668.5*
16.  Lewis Hamilton         696.5*
17.  Nelson Piquet          689.6*
18.  Sebastien Buemi        686.5*
19.  Giancarlo Fisichella   688.5*
20.  Sebastien Bourdais     701.0*

* declared weight