LAST AUTO NEWS – SPANISH GRAND PRIX
Last Auto account – Spanish Admirable Prix Brawn and Button storm to achievement in Barcelona.
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Brawn GP’s Jenson Button reigned absolute in Spain, demography his fourth achievement in 5 races. The Briton bedeviled at the Barcelona circuit, demography a well-deserved win advanced of aggregation acquaintance Rubens Barrichello and Red Bull’s Mark Webber.
However, it was Barrichello who took the aboriginal advantage, accepting advanced of pole-sitting Button at the aboriginal corner. As a result, the Briton switched to a two-stop stop strategy, which accustomed him to leap-frog the three-stopping Brazilian at the flag.
Fortunately all the front-runners abhorred the aboriginal lap anarchy acquired by Toyota’s Jarno Trulli. The Italian absent ascendancy of his car, abolition into Force India’s Adrian Sutil and causing the Toro Rosso’s of Sebastien Buemi and Sebastien Bourdais to bang into retirement.
Behind the arch duo was a harder fought atom for third place. Ferrari’s Felipe Massa looked on advance for a belvedere finish, application the added ability of his KERS able car on the straights to break advanced of the quicker Red Bull of Sebastian Vettel. But it was Vettel’s aggregation acquaintance Webber who took the spoils, casual the aggressive brace at the final annular of stops.
Matters got worse for Massa who was told by aggregation administration that he was abbreviate of ammunition and may not accomplishment the race. As a result, the Brazilian was affected to slow, absolution Vettel and Renault’s Fernando Alonso accomplished in the closing stages.
At atomic Massa fared bigger than adolescent Ferrari disciplinarian Kimi Raikkonen. The 2007 apple best was affected out on lap 18 afterwards his manual failed.
Reigning best Lewis Hamilton at atomic accomplished the race, although he was out of the points. The McLaren ace abject his underperforming car home in ninth place, just abaft the Williams of Nico Rosberg.
For Jenson Button there were no such worries. â??To appear abroad with a win at a ambit that I’ve consistently begin a little bit boxy is a acceptable feelingâ?, claimed Jenson. â??It gives me a lot of aplomb for the blow of the season. I am aswell actual appreciative of all the guys aback at the branch in Brackley. I don’t anticipate they get abundant of a mention, so acknowledge you actual abundant and aswell acknowledgment to Mercedes Benz, as we can’t do it after them.â?
The teams now accept to about-face on the allure as they adapt for the Monaco admirable prix on 24 May.
Results
1.  Button      Brawn GP-Mercedes
2.  Barrichello   Brawn GP-Mercedes
3.  Webber   Red Bull-Renault
4.  Vettel      Red Bull-Renault
5.  Alonso      Renault
6.  Massa      Ferrari
7.  Heidfeld   BMW Sauber
8.  Rosberg   Williams-Toyota
9.  Hamilton   McLaren-Mercedes
10. Glock      Toyota
11. Kubica      BMW Sauber
12. Piquet      Renault
13. Nakajima   Williams-Toyota
14. Fisichella   Force India-Mercedes
Driver Championship
1. Jenson Button      41
2 Rubens Barrichello   27
3 Sebastian Vettel   23
4 Mark Webber      15.5
5 Jarno Trulli      14.5
6 Timo Glock       12
7 Lewis Hamilton      9
8 Fernando Alonso   9
9 Nick Heidfeld      6
10 Nico Rosberg       4.5
Constructor Championship
1 Brawn-Mercedes   68
2 RBR-Renault      38.5
3 Toyota         26.5
4 McLaren-Mercedes   13
5 Renault         9
6 BMW Sauber      6
7 Ferrari         6
8 Williams-Toyota    4.5
9 STR-Ferrari      4
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