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Two racer Red Bull Racing Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber bring Red Bull racing team in top performance break the dominated of Two Racer Brawn GP Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello in two series. In 3th, GP China, Vettel and Webber with briliant performance goes to podium in one and two.
The Heavy Rain in shanghai make the circuit going very wet the safety car bring the racer start behind them. The Blind spot in heavy rain is reason why the race start with safety car front.

After The safety car out race began, but the rain still going and the 1st racer going in pit stop is fernando alonso he goes to pit to chage the strategy.
Very heavy rain make blind spot, wet circuit make some racer such as Felipe Massa, Nico Rosberg, Sebastien Buemi, Sebastian Bourdais dan Adrian Sutil out of track cause can see the track or slip in wet circuit.

The advantage now went back to Vettel, but a slick refuelling stop by Brawn got Button back out in second place ahead of Massa, whose Ferrari rolled to a silent halt on the 21st lap. The race resumed on Lap 23, and with a lighter fuel load Vettel sprinted away from Button and Webber.
“Vettel is only quicker by fuel effect,” the Brawn team told Button, “and Webber is also shorter.” But the Australian moved ahead as Button missed his braking for Turn 14 on the 29th lap. Now it was a Red Bull one-two, but Button snatched second back two laps later when Webber ran wide in the final corner on a track slipper than a skating rink. Not to be outdone, however, Webber snatched the place back within a lap with a terrific counter-attack.
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Pos Driver Team Time
1. Vettel Red Bull-Renault (B) 1h57:43.485
2. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) + 10.970
3. Button Brawn GP-Mercedes (B) + 44.975
4. Barrichello Brawn GP-Mercedes (B) + 1:03.704
5. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) + 1:05.102
6. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) + 1:11.866
7. Glock Toyota (B) + 1:14.476
8. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) + 1:16.439
9. Alonso Renault (B) + 1:24.309
10. Heidfeld BMW Sauber (B) + 1:31.750
11. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) + 1:34.156
12. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) + 1:35.834
13. Kubica BMW Sauber (B) + 1:46.853
14. Fisichella Force India-Mercedes (B) + 1 lap
15. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) + 1 lap
16. Piquet Renault (B) + 2 laps

Fastest lap: Barrichello, 1:52.592
Not classified/retirements:
Driver Team On lap
Sutil Force India-Mercedes (B) 51
Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) 44
Massa Ferrari (B) 23
Trulli Toyota (B) 19

World Championship standings, round 3:
Drivers: Constructors:
1. Button 21 1. Brawn GP-Mercedes 36
2. Barrichello 15 2. Red Bull-Renault 19.5
3. Glock 10 3. Toyota 18.5
4. Vettel 10 4. McLaren-Mercedes 8
5. Webber 9.5 5. Renault 4
6. Trulli 8.5 6. Toro Rosso-Ferrari 4
7. Alonso 4 7. BMW Sauber 4
8. Heidfeld 4 8. Williams-Toyota 3.5
9. Hamilton 4
10. Kovalainen 4
11. Rosberg 3.5
12. Buemi 3
13. Bourdais 1

All timing unofficial
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These drawings illustrate the position of the two holes (bottom left drawing - highlighted in bright yellow) in the underbody of the Brawn, in the vertical section where the reference and step planes meet. These boost the efficiency of the rear diffuser, but also need careful gearbox and suspension...
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Just three cars look set to run KERS in Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix, after Renault and BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica decided not to abandon the system for Shanghai.
Ferrari announced before the weekend that they would not be running KERS here following the reliability problems they experienced at the last round in Malaysia. Now Renault have also opted to drop their system after evaluating Friday practice data.
Kubica, who did not race KERS in either Melbourne or Sepang, also used Friday’s sessions to see if it could bring him an advantage at the Shanghai €nternational Circuit. However, with tyre degradation already proving an issue, the Pole found the additional weight only complicated matters and hence will not use it either.

Renault’s and Kubica’s decisions means that only the two McLarens and Nick Heidfeld’s BMW Sauber are now expected to use KERS in Sunday’s race.
In further changes to Renault’s package, an interim revised diffuser was added to Fernando Alonso’s car ahead of Saturday’s final practice. However, the session did not go well for the Spaniard, who completed just six laps in the R29 and finished 19th in the times, 14 places down on team mate Nelson Piquet.
There were also technical issues at Red Bull and Toyota. Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel suffered identical driveshaft problems on their RB5s, while Timo Glock faces a five-place grid penalty after transmission gremlins necessitated a gearbox change on his TF109.
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Sebastian Vettel gave Red Bull Racing its first pole position in qualifying at Shanghai, ahead of the resurgent Fernando Alonso.
Mark Webber added to Red Bull's delight with third on the grid, while the hitherto dominant Brawns were back in fourth and fifth, Rubens Barrichello ahead of Jenson Button.
Vettel opted to make only one run in Q2 and Q3, yet topped both sessions, taking a dry weather pole to follow his pole in the rain at Monza for Toro Rosso last year.
Red Bull looked set to sweep the front row until Alonso split them, proving that Renault's rapidly-introduced updates were already paying off.

Webber was pushed back from first to third in the closing seconds, with Barrichello dropping to fourth having held provisional pole following the first Q3 runs.
Jarno Trulli completed the top six for Toyota, followed by morning pace-setter Nico Rosberg's Williams.
Kimi Raikkonen took eighth in his Ferrari, with Lewis Hamilton producing his best qualifying performance of the season to take ninth for McLaren.
Toro Rosso's rookie Sebastien Buemi also enjoyed a breakthrough session, reaching Q3 for the first time and taking 10th.
Timo Glock's disastrous day continued. A new gearbox had been required after his practice failure, giving the Toyota a five-place penalty. Given that he only managed 14th in qualifying, that will translate to a back of the field start for the second time this year.
While Hamilton showed better form and Raikkonen at least maintained his Q3 run, their respective team-mates Heikki Kovalainen and Felipe Massa both failed to reach the top ten, taking 12th and 13th, just 0.001s apart.
Also unable to match their team-mates' progress into Q3 were Williams's Kazuki Nakajima, Toro Rosso's Sebastien Bourdais and Renault's Nelson Piquet, who filled positions 15 to 17.
BMW had another poor afternoon. Nick Heidfeld only just squeezed into Q2 and then took 11th, while his team-mate Robert Kubica had the worst qualifying session of his Formula 1 career, managing only 18th and getting knocked out in Q1 for the first time ever.
Force India remained mired at the tail of the field, 0.7s adrift of the pack. Adrian Sutil out-qualified Giancarlo Fisichella for the first time in 2009, beating the Italian by 0.003s.

Pos Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Laps
1. Vettel Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:36.565 1:35.130 1:36.184 11
2. Alonso Renault (B) 1:36.443 1:35.803 1:36.381 21
3. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:35.751 1:35.173 1:36.466 19
4. Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes (B) 1:35.701 1:35.503 1:36.493 21
5. Button Brawn-Mercedes (B) 1:35.533 1:35.556 1:36.532 19
6. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:36.308 1:35.645 1:36.835 21
7. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) 1:35.941 1:35.809 1:37.397 23
8. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:36.137 1:35.856 1:38.089 19
9. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:35.776 1:35.740 1:38.595 17
10. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:36.284 1:35.965 1:39.321 21
11. Heidfeld BMW-Sauber (B) 1:36.525 1:35.975 14
12. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:36.646 1:36.032 10
13. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:36.178 1:36.033 11
14. Glock Toyota (B) 1:36.364 1:36.066 14
15. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) 1:36.673 1:36.193 13
16. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:36.906 10
17. Piquet Renault (B) 1:36.908 10
18. Kubica BMW-Sauber (B) 1:36.966 8
19. Sutil Force India-Mercedes (B) 1:37.669 10
20. Fisichella Force India-Mercedes (B) 1:37.672 10

All Timing Unofficial
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