Shanghai 2009: The Grid

Shanghai 2009: The Grid

With qualifying completed, we can now look at the completed grid for tomorrow’s Chinese Grand Prix. At the front we have a new face for this year; Sebastian Vettel taking the first non-Button pole of 2009 and the German’s career second. Confirming the pace of the Red Bull RB5 is team mate Mark Webber in third. Splitting the Milton Keynes team is surprisingly Fernando Alonso. The Brawns could do no better than fourth and fifth, with Rubens Barrichello out-qualifying Jenson button for the first time this year.

Shanghai 2009: The Grid
Inclusive of penalties given.

1 German Flag Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing
1m36.184s
Fernando Alonso Renault
1m36.381s
Spanish Flag 2
3 Austraian Flag Mark Webber Red Bull Racing
1m36.466s
Rubens Barrichello Brawn
1m36.493s
Brazilian Flag 4
5 British Flag Jenson Button Brawn
1m36.532s
Jarno Trulli Toyota
1m36.835s
Italian Flag 6
7 German Flag Nico Rosberg Williams
1m37.397s
Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari
1m38.089s
Finnish Flag 8
9 British Flag Lewis Hamilton McLaren
1m38.595s
Sebastien Buemi Scuderia Toro Rosso
1m39.321s
Swiss Flag 10
11 German Flag Nick Heidfeld BMW
1m35.975s
Heikki Kovalainen McLaren
1m36.032s
Finnish Flag 12
13 Brazilian Flag Felipe Massa Ferrari
1m36.033s
Kazuki Nakajima Williams
1m36.193s
Japanese Flag 14
15 French Flag Sebastian Bourdais Scuderia Toro Rosso
1m36.906s
Nelson Piquet Jr. Renault
1m36.908
Brazilian Flag 16
17 Polish Flag Robert Kubica BMW
1m36.699s
Adrian Sutil Force India
1m37.699s
German Flag 18
19 German Flag Timo Glock Toyota
1m36.066s*
Giancarlo Fisichella Force India
1m37.699s
Italian Flag 20

*Timo Glock was given a five grid slot penalty for having his gear box changed out of sequence.

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