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8/14/2019 Shanghai Race Report
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In what turned out to be a very wet
Shanghai GP, Sebastian Vettel led Red
bull from pole position to a commanding1-2 with team mate Mark Webber. An
achievement for Webber in itself especially
after badly breaking his leg over the winter.
Championship leader Jenson Button was
a distant 3rd with no real answer to the
Red bull pace.
The Race was started behind the safety
car because of the rain. A shame because
the start is always one of the most tense
exciting and nervous part of the race. The
safety car came in on lap 8 .This was bad
news for second place on the grid Alonso as
he pitted on lap 7 under the safety car for fuel
and tires, if the safety car had stayed out this
could have been a master stroke. But as it
was he was stuck at the back of the train of
cars with his chance of a good result gone.
Once the safety car was in Vettel and
Weber pulled away from the Brawn GP cars.
The safety car came out for a 2nd time when
Robert Kubica went into the back of Jarno
Trulli in spectacular way. This just proves howhard it is for these guys to see in the wet.
Trulli’s race was ended but Kubica carried on
all but way off the pace.
Vettel survived a scare when Sebastien
Buemi went into the back of him, somehow
not damaging Vettel’s car (It really was
his day). Once the safety car was in Vettel
managed to pull out a nice gap over Button
and Webber who were having a great ght
for 2nd (who ever said there was no over
taking in F1). In the end, Webber’s attempts
at passing Button paid off, pulling away from
the winner of the rst 2 GPs. By this time
Vettel was a long way ahead so all he had
to do was keep his head together in the rain
and take the win. Webber’s 2nd place made
it a 1-2 for Red bulls rst win with Button 3rd.
Rubans Barrichello came in 4th but was way
off the pace of his team mate Button with
no chance of getting close to the top three,
somehow he ended up with the Fastest Lap
(why could he have not shown that pace allof the race)?
Heikki Kovalainen had an incident free
race at last for Mclaren. Coming 5th (it is
good to see my old driver have a good race).
The opposite can be said of his team mate
Hamilton who showed real pace at times but
made way too many mistakes…… (I think 6)
for a world Champion on his way to 6th.
Poor Adrain sutil was looking good for
Force India’s rst ever points, when he
aquaplaned into the barriers with 5 laps to go.
Timo Glock came 7th even after tangling
together with Nick Heided damaging
his front wing.
Seabastan Buemi got the last point in 8th
with an excellent drive in only his 3rd GP.
Alonso ended up 9th and out of the points
again, after ghting his way up the eld.
Kimi Raikonen Finished 10th, what is
GP REPORT
S h an g h ai Red Bull’s Maiden F1 Win
Grand PrixBy . Dav i d H y at t
Read the full article in Arabia Motors- May 2009 issue.