What a difference a year makes, back then Robert Kubica was leading the world championship and Jenson Button was struggling at the back of the field with just 3 points on the board. Now with a new set of regulations, Jenson Button is basking in the glory of yet another win, his 6th win from the opening 7 races while Kubica had something to cheer, his first points of the year for 7th place. Yep its a new order indeed.
Now Button goes into his home race in a run of form mirroring that of Michael Schumacher in his ever dominant 2004 season where he ended up winning a staggering 13 out of 18 races, will Button do a similar feat, maybe so based on this showing in Turkey which was yet another dominant drive while his rivals faultered. Most notably on the first lap when his teammate Rubens Barrichello burned his clutch on the start line and got away poorly, wrecking his afternoon then polesitter and main championship rival Sebastian Vettel made an error coming out of the turn 10 chicane gifting Button a lead he would never relinquish.
Vettel (despite the setback) decided to persist with a 3 stop strategy which would turn out to be a bad move as this would drop him behind his teammate Mark Webber into 3rd ahead of Trulli and Rosberg. They were followed by Felipe Massa (who had won this race 3 years running before today) Robert Kubica and Timo Glock to complete the points scorers, this marked a big improvement for Toyota, Williams and BMW who had shown good pace all weekend.
The driver of the day laurels in my eyes went to Kazuki Nakajima who after a very aggressive fuel strategy was running in a net 4th place, this would have been his best ever finish and would have brought big points to the Williams team, but on his final pitstop, his pitcrew suffered a wheel-hub problem which heartbreakingly pushed him down to 12th, a real shame for the Young Japanese driver who had given his best performance of the season so far.
RACE RATING - 6/10: For once, it was a precession worth watching
RACE RESULTS - TOP 10
1. Jenson Button - Brawn ................ 1h 26m 24.848
2. Mark Webber - Red Bull ................. + 6.714
3. Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull ................ + 7.461
4. Jarno Trulli - Toyota ................ + 27.843
5. Nico Rosberg - Williams ................. + 31.539
6. Felipe Massa - Ferrari ............... + 39.996
7. Robert Kubica - BMW Sauber ................ + 46.247
8. Timo Glock - Toyota ................ + 46.959
9. Kimi Raikkonen - Ferrari ................ + 50.246
10. Fernando Alonso - Renault ................ + 1m 02.420
DRIVERS CHAMPIONSHIP AFTER ROUND 7
1st Jenson Button 61pts, 2nd Rubens Barrichello 35pts, 3rd Sebastian Vettel 29pts, 4th Mark Webber 27.5pts, 5th Jarno Trulli 19.5pts, 6th Timo Glock 13pts, 7th Nico Rosberg 11.5pts, =8th Felipe Massa 11pts, =8th Fernando Alonso 8pts, =10th Kimi Raikkonen 9pts, =10th Lewis Hamilton 9pts
CONSTRUCTORS CHAMPIONSHIP
1st Brawn 96pts, 2nd Red Bull 56.5pts, 3rd Toyota 32.5pts, 4th Ferrari 20pts, 5th McLaren 13pts, 6th Williams 11.5pts, 7th Renault 11pts, 8th BMW Sauber 8pts, 9th Toro Rosso 5pts, 10th Force India 0pts
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