🗣 'They came over to the car and said 'you've won the race!'' 🏆 On this day in 2009, JensonButton won a bizarre F1 Malaysian Grand Prix for Brawn GP – here's what happened 👇
Crucially Jenson soon passed the fuel heavy Alonso, but he still had two cars ahead. The significance of the ongoing the double diffuser controversy was made only too clear as the Williams, Toyota and Brawn – three cars thus equipped – left everyone else trailing.Button carried a few extra laps of fuel in qualifying, and having sat patiently in third until his two rivals pitted – Rosberg on lap 15, Trulli two laps later – he took advantage of a clear track to put on an extraordinary spurt.
And that was followed almost immediately by a red flag, so the field stopped on the grid and the race went into suspended mode."After my first change to wet tyres I was just skating around all over the place, I was just so slow," Button said later."But nobody else on the extreme wet was really much quicker. I was trying to look after the rears, because I was getting oversteer, knowing that it was probably going to rain.
Raikkonen, who pitted just before the race suspension with a KERS issue, assumed his day was done – hence his ice cream. However, the Ferrari guys continued to work away on his car. There was always a chance that he might be able to restart, albeit with a little extra personal ballast now on board… The premature conclusion meant that Button and the rest of the top eight finishers scored only half points, but the man himself was happy enough to log another victory."The boys couldn't tell me because the radios weren't working, it all got too wet," he explained."They came over to the car and said you've won the race. I was very happy obviously, winning the race. You only get half points, but for me it was the win that matters, it wasn't the points.
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