German Grand Prix Tomorrow
July 11, 2009 by Warren Hayashi
Filed under Racing
The 2009 Formula One season reaches its midway point tomorrow as Formula One takes to the pavement of The Nurburgring in Germany in the German Grand Prix. It has been a very eventful year in many respects, even though Jenson Button has run away with the first half of the season and currently holds a 23 point lead on his nearest competitor Reubens Barrichello. Jenson flew off the starting line of the first race of the Formula One season, the Australian Grand Prix, and then followed it up with a victory in the Malaysian Grand Prix that had everybody wondering if he was going to win them all. He lost the next race in China and then went on to win four of the next five Formula One races of the season, with the race at Great Britain being the only blemish on his record during this time.
German Grand Prix is this Sunday
The Nurburgring circuit has a reputation for being one of the best all around tests of the Formula One season for the cars and drivers. It has wide variety of corners, including high-speed areas, medium-speed chicanes, and a few very slow corners that demand the cars have good traction to navigate through them. To race and win at this track requires the best from both car and driver and tomorrow’s German Grand Prix will tell us a lot about the rest of the 2009 Formula One season.
Saturday’s qualifying round for the German Grand Prix was an up and down affair that saw the weather play a major part in determining the final grid standing for the Sunday’s race. Mark Webber grabbed his first pole position of the 2009 Formula One season amid changing weather that contributed to his time of 1:32:230 seconds. Reubens Barrichello waited to the final lap to post a 1:32:357 and take second position on the grid for tomorrow’s German Grand Prix. Jenson Button ran a 1:32:473 to start third tomorrow, while Sebastian Vettel took fourth in a time of 1:32:480. Lewis Hamilton will start fifth, Heikki Kovalainen sixth, while Adrian Sutil had a surprising day for Force India by posting the seventh best qualifying time.
The German Grand Prix will start about 14:00 hour’s German time, so you have a little time to find a channel in your area that will be showing the race.
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