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2009 Monaco Grand Prix
Race 6 of 17 in the 2009 Formula One World Championship
Circuit de Monaco
Race details
Date	May 24, 2009
Official name	LXVII Grand Prix de Monaco
Location	Circuit de Monaco
Course	Street circuit
Course length	3.34 km (2.08 miles)
Distance	78 laps, 260.52 km (162.24 miles)
Weather	TBA
Pole position
Driver	Jenson Button	Brawn GP
Time	TBA
Fastest lap
Driver	TBA	TBA
Time	TBA on lap TBA
Podium
First	TBA	TBA
Second	TBA	TBA
Third	TBA	TBA

The 2009 Monaco Grand Prix is a Formula One motor race and the sixth round of the 2009 Formula One season. It will take place from 21-24 May at the Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo. The race itself will commence at 14:00 CET (noon UTC), Sunday, May 24.

Report

Background

Going into the round, Brawn driver Jenson Button leads the Drivers Championship by 14 points from team-mate Rubens Barrichello, having claimed 41 points out of a possible 45. Sebastian Vettel trails Barrichello by 4 points in the Red Bull, while World Champion Lewis Hamilton of McLaren lies in seventh place with 9 points.

Brawn lead the Constructors' Championship by 29.5 points from Red Bull, who are a further 12 points ahead of Toyota. McLaren are the only other team to have reached double-figures in points, while Force India are the only team yet to score points.

Red Bull plan to have a new two-tier diffuser ready for the RB5 in Monaco, with chief designer Adrian Newey believing it could be a real benefit to the team. The Austrian drinks company team have already won the 2009 Chinese Grand Prix and Sebastian Vettel is the only driver to have qualified in the first 3 positions at every race this season. They finished 3rd & 4th in the previous race at Barcelona.

Practice and qualifying

The early practice sessions at Monaco are traditionally run on the Thursday of the week so that the roads can be opened on the Friday for public access. As such, two practcie sessions were held on the Thursday, with the third on Saturday morning, followed shortly by qualifying.

The Thursday practice sessions began with Brawn GP establishing its dominance once again; Rubens Barrichello was fastest by three-tenths of a second from countryman Felipe Massa with a time of 1:17.199, and the two McLarens of Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen following shortly thereafter. The Brawns continued their form in the second session, placing third and fourth behind Nico Rosberg - who topped practice for the ninth time this season with a 1:15.243 - and Hamilton once again. A similar story held true for the Saturday session, with Jenson Button narrowly being beaten by Fernando Alonso in the Renault.

The first qualifying session was marked by 2008 winner Lewis Hamilton crashing at Mirabeau and damaging his suspension, putting him out of qualifying and gradually knocking him down the order until he would finish fifteenth, ahead of the BMW-Saubers of Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica and the Toyotas of Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock.

Classification

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Qualifying

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References

1. "Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2009". Formula1.com. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
2. "Red Bull plan upgrade for Monaco". BBC Sport. 2009-05-10. Retrieved 2009-05-12.

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