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2009 FORMULA 1 TELEFONICA GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE



INFORMATION

Race Date: 23 Aug 2009
Number of Laps: 57
Circuit Length: 5.419 km
Race Distance: 308.883 km
Lap Record: 1:38.708 - F Massa (2008)

TIME SCHEDULE (LOCAL)

Fri 21 August 2009
Friday Practice 1 10:00 - 11:30
Friday Practice 2 14:00 - 15:30

Sat 22 August 2009
Saturday Practice 11:00 - 12:00
Qualifying 14:00

Sun 23 August 2009
Race 14:00

WORLD DRIVERS CHAMPIONSHIPS STANDINGS 10/17

1 Jenson Button British Brawn-Mercedes 70
2 Mark Webber Australian RBR-Renault 51.5
3 Sebastian Vettel German RBR-Renault 47
4 Rubens Barrichello Brazilian Brawn-Mercedes 44
5 Nico Rosberg German Williams-Toyota 25.5
6 Jarno Trulli Italian Toyota 22.5
7 Felipe Massa Brazilian Ferrari 22
8 Lewis Hamilton British McLaren-Mercedes 19
9 Kimi Räikkönen Finnish Ferrari 18
10 Timo Glock German Toyota 16
11 Fernando Alonso Spanish Renault 13
12 Heikki Kovalainen Finnish McLaren-Mercedes 9
13 Nick Heidfeld German BMW Sauber 6
14 Sebastien Buemi Swiss STR-Ferrari 3
15 Robert Kubica Polish BMW Sauber 2
16 Sebastien Bourdais French STR-Ferrari 2
17 Giancarlo Fisichella Italian Force India-Mercedes 0
18 Kazuki Nakajima Japanese Williams-Toyota 0
19 Adrian Sutil German Force India-Mercedes 0
20 Nelsinho Piquet Brazilian Renault 0
21 Jaime Alguersuari Spanish STR-Ferrari 0

WORLD CONSTRUCTORS CHAMPIONSHIPS STANDINGS 10/17

1 Brawn-Mercedes 114
2 RBR-Renault 98.5
3 Ferrari 40
4 Toyota 38.5
5 McLaren-Mercedes 28
6 Williams-Toyota 25.5
7 Renault 13
8 BMW Sauber 8
9 STR-Ferrari 5
10 Force India-Mercedes 0

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Renault's appeal taking place today, 17th August, verdict decision approximately tomorrow morning. In the wake of not-happening Schumachers' comeback, Luca Badoer is to make a F1 return since 1999 in Ferrari. Nelsinho Piquet fired from Renault, Romain Grosjean most likely to be alternative. Jaime's second F1 start. Who is going to win it?

I always have a very hard time surviving without F1, I'm glad the summerbreak is almost over

0/10 track

Lets hope these cars can put up a better show. Which i doubt.

I think it's an OK track. But I'd imagine being a spectator there wouldn't be very fun...

even Valencia deserves a 2nd chance

29ºC expected for the whole weekend.

Last years race was extremely boring, but if you look closely at the track, there are some overtaking points. Last years race was boring, becouse there where no battles, not a single driver who came close to overtake someone. So I think this track can host a good race, depends on the drivers.

And Alonso will drive.

yes, I'm not a Renault fan but I'm happy we will have the full 20 car grid in Valencia

Nice that Renault will drive then

So Grosjean will debut this weekend

I find this incredibly stupid as well. If the decision was s bad it merited a fine how can the "fine" only be $50,000? Goddamn FIA and their knee jerk reactions. Good to see Renault competing.

ya

I think its a decent track that was made to look worse than it is by the shitty race we had last year

It is the street circuit with the least atmoshpere in the world.

Glad to see that Renault will have the permission to race at Valencia. But this isn't any kind of gentleness of the FIA.
They only fear the heavy losses of revenues! Without Michael Schumacher's comeback and without the Spanish national hero Alonso a lot of people wouldn't have come to see this GP. I think this re-admission of Renault is only to prevent a negative record of spectator counts. I've heard that they've reduced the stands capacity from 112.000 to 75.000. Poor F1, poor FIA...


...perhaps they can shove Renault's fine of 50.000 $ in their own pocket to condense their source of income

if Bernie stopped asking so much money to organize a race they wouldn't have to ask ridicules entree fees and a lot more people could enjoy F1 races, and then they wouldn't need to reduce the seats