2010 Malaysian Grand Prix
The Malaysian Grand Prix on 4 April 2010 took place at the Sepang International Circuit in Sepang and was the third race of the Formula 1 2010 season.
- 3.1 qualifying
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
Reports
Background
According to the Australian Grand Prix Fernando Alonso led the drivers' standings with four points ahead of Felipe Massa and six points ahead of Jenson Button. Ferrari resulted in the constructors' championship with 16 points ahead of McLaren -Mercedes with 41 points, ahead of Mercedes.
With Michael Schumacher ( three times), Alonso (twice) and button (once) were three former winners of this Grand Prix.
Training
In the first free practice McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton set the fastest lap ahead of Nico Rosberg and his team-mate Button. In the second free practice Hamilton maintained the lead position. In second and third place followed by the German pilot Sebastian Vettel and Rosberg. In the third free practice on Saturday Mark Webber was the quickest driver. Hamilton was second ahead of Vettel.
In the first free practice Fairuz Fauzy took for Lotus -Cosworth for the first time participated in a Formula 1 weekend. In addition, Paul di Resta was allowed to drive for Force India -Mercedes again in the first free practice session.
Qualifying
The first phase of qualifying took place in wet conditions. First, the top teams were in the box and only Vettel set a time. When they had finally sent their drivers out on the track, the rain got heavier and therefore managed Alonso, Hamilton and Massa not to qualify for the second part. In addition, the HRT drivers, Jarno Trulli and Lucas di Grassi retired from. The fastest time recorded Robert Kubica. Button had to park his car after a spin. He came into the second segment, but did not start there.
This section also was marked by the wet conditions and again the conditions were worse just before the end. Timo Glock, Heikki Kovalainen, Jaime Alguersuari, Sebastien Buemi, Pedro de la Rosa and Vitaly Petrov retired from. This time, Vettel was the fastest pilot. The final part of qualifying was interrupted after about three minutes, as the rain had become too strong. After the track was released, Webber secured pole position with more than one second ahead. Webber was the only rider who was on intermediate tires in the wet conditions on the road. Of course two and three Rosberg and Vettel went into the race.
Race
The best start for the Grand Prix of Malaysia succeeded Vettel, starting from third place took the lead from his team-mate Webber. Rosberg was before Kubica in third place. Also a good start was the McLaren and Ferrari drivers who went through the field from the race. Was led quartet from Hamilton, who overtook some pilots in the next rounds. His team-mate Button initially fell back to the end of the quartet. In the fifth round, it came in the back of the pack to a collision between Trulli and Glock. While Trulli was able to continue the race for his former teammate had ended.
While the two Red Bull deposed at the top of Rosberg arose between Hamilton and Petrov to a duel for ninth. First, Hamilton walked past the Renault driver after a braking mistake Petrov. However, Petrov countered and sat back down in front of Hamilton. One lap later, Hamilton Petrov attacked again and overtook him this time at the end of the straight final. Since Hamilton repeatedly changed lanes in his duel with Petrov, he was the black and white flag, which means a warning is shown. Two laps later, also the second McLaren driver, Button, Alonso show with an overtaking maneuver against a position improvement.
After Kamui Kobayashi rolled out in the ninth round, the race for the Sauber team was terminated because his teammate de la Rosa had already failed in the round to the grid. Both suffered an engine failure, which was caused by a problem in the pneumatic system. One lap later, Schumacher had to retire from the race with a technical defect. In the twelfth round, there was again a collision between two pilots of the new teams. Kovalainen collided with di Grassi. While di Grassi was able to continue, Kovalainen had to first engage a repair stop and came at the end of the race with ten laps to the finish and was not scored. Another incident in the twelfth round was the technically caused by Vitantonio Liuzzi failure.
The pit stops, the lead group did not alter the classification. Vettel kept his lead over Webber, who only received a larger residue through a bad pit stop. Between the two pilots was Hamilton who was not even on the box as the Ferrari drivers and di Grassi. In the 33rd round of the race was also for Petrov, who also retired with a technical problem, ended. After also Hamilton and the Ferrari drivers had completed their pit stop, they occupied, led by McLaren duo places six to nine. At the top of the Red Bull - Renault driver extended their lead on the rest of the field of riders from further.
In the 44th round Massa overtook Button and so took the seventh place. Alonso also tried to walk past Button, but not him succeeded. Two laps to go dropped Alonso, who complained throughout the race problem with the clutch and transmission, with an engine failure.
Finally, Vettel won the race ahead of his team-mate Webber and made thus for a double victory for the Red Bull -Renault. In third place came Rosberg, who an unspectacular, but faultless race, drove to the finish. He scored the first podium for the Mercedes works team since the Italian Grand Prix 1955. Kubica could go out again a good result with a fourth place. Adrian Sutil defended fifth place against Hamilton, Massa and Button. The other points were awarded to Alguersuari and Nico Hulkenberg, who scored the first of his career. Di Grassi, it became the first to pilot a race for Virgin -Cosworth to finish and was also the best pilot of the newly ascended teams.
The race took place under dry conditions throughout. Although it was cloudy and it was announced rain showers during the race, but the weather and the track remained dry was wrong.
In the Constructors ' World Championship Ferrari retained the lead ahead of McLaren -Mercedes and in the drivers' world championship Massa took the lead from his team-mate Alonso. Massa led the world championship for the first time since the 2008 French Grand Prix again.
With Sebastian Vettel for the fifth time in a row won another driver.
Message list
Classifications
Qualifying
Race
WM stands after the race
, The first ten of the race were 25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point (s).