Malaysian GP Race Result
A rain soaked race that saw Jenson Button winning the Malaysian GP after the race was Red Flagged. The race was halted after 33 laps and with the 2 hour time limit draw closer, the race could not be restarted. With the final results being taken back by a lap, Nick Heidfeld took second for BMW with Toyota’s Timo Glock third.
Button’s second win from two races this year confirms a 100% wins to starts ratio for the new Brawn GP team; starting from pole position, the Englishman found himself fourth after the first corners as he swapped positions with Nico Rosberg, as the German’s Williams launched off the grid to slide down the inside of Turn 1. Fernando Alonso also made a good start by leapfrogging from ninth to the third on the grid.
With rain having threatened all weeked, Räikkönen and Ferrari were the first to jump by fitting the car with extreme wet tyres when needing to pit for fuel; with no drops falling for a number of laps, the Finn soon plummeted from fifth to fifteenth. By the time the rain did come, the 2007 champion was already one and a half minutes behind the leaders, with his tyres destroyed.
The race had not reached three quarter distance at the time of its stoppage, so half points were awarded as the conditions failed to improve enough to show the ten minute board within the permitted two hour time limit. Button took his second win from two races for Brawn, as Timo Glock – who had reached second place – fell behind Nick Heidfeld on the standard one-lap countback for stopped races.
Race Result
| Pos. | Driver | Team | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  J. Button |
Brawn GP | 1:10:59.092 | ||
| 2 |  N. Heidfeld |
BMW | + 22.722 | ||
| 3 | T. Glock |
Toyota | + 23.513 | ||
| 4 |  J. Trulli |
Toyota | + 46.173 | ||
| 5 |  R. Barrichello |
Brawn GP | + 47.360 | ||
| 6 |  M. Webber |
Red Bull | + 52.333 | ||
| 7 | L. Hamilton |
McLaren | + 1:00.733 | ||
| 8 | N. Rosberg |
Williams | + 1:11.576 | ||
| 9 | F. Massa |
Ferrari | + 1:16.931 | ||
| 10 |  S. Bourdais |
Scuderia Toro Rosso | + 1:42.164 | ||
| 11 |  F. Alonso |
Renault | + 1 laps | ||
| 12 |  K. Nakajima |
Williams | + 1 laps | ||
| 13 | N. Piquet jr. |
Renault | + 1 laps | ||
| 14 |  K. Räikkönen |
Ferrari | + 1 laps | ||
| 15 | S. Vettel |
Red Bull | + 1 laps | ||
| 16 |  S. Buemi |
Scuderia Toro Rosso | + 1 laps | ||
| 17 | A. Sutil |
Force India F1 | + 1 laps | ||
| 18 | G. Fisichella |
Force India F1 | + 2 laps | ||
| Did not finish | |||||
| 19 |  R. Kubica |
BMW | + 30 laps | ||
| 20 | H. Kovalainen |
McLaren | + 31 laps | ||
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