Jenson Button Moves Closer to His Dream

The 2009 Formula One season rolled out onto the street of Marina Bay Sunday in the latest round of the Formula One for another barn raising affair that saw the podium filled by racers and teams who aren’t in contention of winning the Formula One World Championship. This time McLaren, Renault and Toyota filled the spots that have gone to other teams and racers for most of the 2009 Formula One season.

Jenson Button increases his lead to 15 points

Lewis Hamilton had to turn off and then reboot his KERS system in order to interrupt possible problems with the system. Other than this small problem, his car ran beautifully all day and he was able to make up for his crash at Monza with a win. Heikki Kovalainen didn’t have a good a day but still managed to finish seventh and bring McLaren’s point total for the race to 12 and decrease their distance to Ferrari by three points.

Toyota had a much better result with Tim Glock grabbing the second position on the podium, even though the win is kind of a let down, after a less then stellar season. Glock was actually behind the front runners for most of the race but stayed close enough to the three front cars to grab a well deserved second when Rosberg made an error exiting the pit. The points Toyota grabbed here are important and they could go along way to determining their future in Formula One.

Renault had a great day as Fernando Alonso grabbed a little redemption and satisfaction with a third place finish that isn’t a win, but must still be gratifying after the season they have had. The Renault team has had a frustrating and long year on the track and they needed to have a result that would let the pressure off a bit.

Vettel was a podium contender the whole day, until he lost his concentration and let his adrenalin get to him and was caught speeding in pit lane. It was certainly an entertaining show to watch as parts were flying off Vettel’s car all day as he tried to do his best to win. He later admitted that he had to baby the brakes during the later part of the race and this slowed him a little at several points during the final laps.

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