Six out of 7 for Jenson, Can he be stopped?

CONGRATULATIONS TO JENSON BUTTON ONCE AGAIN!

Jenson with yet another steller drive at Istanbul to take another race win and take his point tally to 61 and extending Brawn GP's Championship lead by 39.5 points from Red Bull Racing.
A mistake by Vettel on the opening lap gave Jenson the lead and the opportunity to charge away in the opening sequence. Red bull decided to compromise Vettels race further by placing him on a 3 stop strategy compared to his team mates 2 stop allowing Webber to jump him during the pit stops. Vettels strategy issues were further compounded by Vettel coming up behind Jenson and not being able to put a move on him.
This all helps Jenson in his campaign for the Championship with Webber getting a bigger haul of points than his RBR counterpart.
Not such a great day for Rubens having ended up in anti stall off the grid and dropping from 3rd to 13th. Rubens then had a clash with Adrian Sutil getting frustrated at his clearly much faster pace. Rubens race was totally destroyed when he announced over the radio that he was racing without 7th gear and seems to be the reason for his retirement near the end of the race.

PROVISIONAL RACE RESULTS

The Turkish Grand Prix
Istanbul, Turkey;
58 laps; 309.396km;
Weather: Sunny.

Classified:

Pos  Driver        Time
 1.  Button        1h26:24.848
 2.  Webber        +     6.714
 3.  Vettel        +     7.461
 4.  Trulli        +    27.843
 5.  Rosberg       +    31.539
 6.  Massa         +    39.996
 7.  Kubica        +    46.247
 8.  Glock         +    46.959
 9.  Raikkonen     +    50.246
10.  Alonso        +  1:02.420
11.  Heidfeld      +  1:04.327
12.  Nakajima      +  1:06.376
13.  Hamilton      +  1:20.454
14.  Kovalainen    +     1 lap
15.  Buemi         +     1 lap
16.  Piquet        +     1 lap
17.  Sutil         +     1 lap
18.  Bourdais      +     1 lap

Fastest lap: Button, 1:27.579

Not classified/retirements:

Driver        Team                      On lap
Barrichello   Brawn GP-Mercedes     (B)    49
Fisichella    Force India-Mercedes  (B)    5

       
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Brawn GP - Free Practice 2 - Istanbul

Pos  Driver       Time              Laps
 1.  Kovalainen   1:28.841            37
 2.  Alonso       1:28.847  + 0.006   35
 3.  Kubica       1:29.056  + 0.215   35
 4.  Nakajima     1:29.091  + 0.250   37
 5.  Vettel       1:29.202  + 0.361   4
 6.  Trulli       1:29.207  + 0.366   40
 7.  Rosberg      1:29.257  + 0.416   40
 8.  Barrichello  1:29.305  + 0.464   34
 9.  Webber       1:29.383  + 0.542   39
10.  Piquet       1:29.401  + 0.560   38
11.  Massa        1:29.416  + 0.575   37
12.  Button       1:29.430  + 0.589   32
13.  Hamilton     1:29.435  + 0.594   31
14.  Glock        1:29.518  + 0.677   40
15.  Raikkonen    1:29.520  + 0.679   33
16.  Heidfeld     1:29.550  + 0.709   40
17.  Sutil        1:30.081  + 1.240   32
18.  Fisichella   1:30.091  + 1.250   37
19.  Bourdais     1:30.295  + 1.454   39
20.  Buemi        1:30.629  + 1.788   36

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Brawn GP - Free Practice 1 - Istanbul

Usual sort of FP1 for BGP just refining the setup.

Pos  Driver       Time              Laps
 1.  Rosberg      1:28.952            24
 2.  Hamilton     1:29.263  + 0.311   23
 3.  Trulli       1:29.271  + 0.319   26
 4.  Vettel       1:29.337  + 0.385   17
 5.  Massa        1:29.342  + 0.390   22
 6.  Nakajima     1:29.371  + 0.419   21
 7.  Raikkonen    1:29.398  + 0.446   24
 8.  Alonso       1:29.422  + 0.470   24
 9.  Barrichello  1:29.525  + 0.573   24
10.  Kovalainen   1:29.590  + 0.638   19
11.  Button       1:29.747  + 0.795   20
12.  Sutil        1:29.864  + 0.912   21
13.  Glock        1:29.934  + 0.982   25
14.  Piquet       1:30.132  + 1.180   18
15.  Webber       1:30.176  + 1.224   21
16.  Kubica       1:30.645  + 1.693   22
17.  Heidfeld     1:30.689  + 1.737   19
18.  Fisichella   1:30.729  + 1.777   22
19.  Bourdais     1:30.838  + 1.886   24
20.  Buemi        1:30.944  + 1.992   25

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