Button claims fantastic 4th victory in Spain’s GP, after finishing well over 13 seconds ahead of his team-mate Rubens Barrichello in 2nd place.  Button also managed to lap current World Champion Lewis Hamilton, who finished in 9th place, while Mark Webber claimed 3rd place.

At the beginning of the race, Button had a good start but Barrichello had a better start quickly taking the lead before the first corner.  Merely a few seconds after the start, an accident occurred a few corners into the first lap. The accident involved Adrian Sutil, Jarno Trulli, Sebastien Bourdais, and Sebastien Buemi. The accident occurred after both Sutil and Trulli tried to rejoin the race after running wide of the track, with Buemi and Bourdais having no chance to avoid the Toyota and Force India cars.  Since the safety car had not yet gone back to the pits, it stayed on for the first 4 laps, and went back with 61 laps left to go.

Heiki Kovolainen’s McLaren gave out with 59 laps left to go, while his fellow Finish driver, Kimi Raikonen, had problems with his Ferrari and was forced to abandon his car beside the track with 48 laps to go.

Towards the end of the race Button is leading the race, having managed to snatch the lead during one of Barrichello’s pit stops. With 4 laps to go Felipe Massa was trying to wring out every last ounce of performance from his Ferrari, by only sticking to two pit stops.  But his strategy meant that he had to let Vettel pass if he had any chance to finish the race, Massa going down to 5th place.  But on the last lap Alonso took advantage of Massa’s fuel sipping strategy and claims 5th place for himself.

The next race is in two weeks, the Monaco GP. Will Button bathe in the glory and glamour that comes with a victory in Monaco? we certainly hope so.

Lewis Hamilton may sometimes seem to have the abilities of God when it comes to going around a race track in an F1 car, but unfortunately his latest incident involving traffic in Geneva-Switzerland, proves that he is a mere mortal.

According to Swiss newspaper, Tribune de Geneve, Hamilton crashed his black Mercedes Benz into a Peugeot 206 after running a stop sign.  Luckily no one was hurt in the incident, and witnesses stated that Hamilton dealt with the situation in a respectable and friendly manner. 

After a long and impressive career of nearly 30 years, Ron Dennis has finally left all his CEO responsibilities at McLaren Racing to Martin Whitmarsh.  Dennis' departure comes at a difficult time for McLaren Racing, as they are still surrounded by the contrversial results of the Australian Grand Prix, as well as the departure of sporting director Dave Ryan.

According to formula1.com, Ron Dennis made the decision about leaving on his own, and admits to feeling a little strange about not having a hands-on approach to the McLaren race team after being with them for so long.

However, Ron Dennis will take up the role of Executive Chairman at McLaren Automotive.  Among the tasks he will be facing, is  launching a new range of sports cars planned to hit the streets sometime in 2011.

We were hoping that there would be no need for the F1 stewards to determine the final results of today's race.  Well we got our wish, the stewards didn't interfere, but mother nature did. 

The race started out well, with Nico Rosberg coming off the start line cleanly and quickly taking the lead.  However, we could all see that the menacing dark clouds above would sooner or later have a say in the outcome of the race.

The rain started to fall close to half way through the amount of laps needed to finish the race.  Kimi Raikkonen was the first to change to wet tyres, well in advance of everyone else, trying to  gain an advantage before all the other drivers came into the pit lane.  It's a shame that he still finished last, at 14th place, out of the cars that didn't end up out of the race.

After everyone had changed to wet tyres, we witnessed an interesting overtaking duel between Lewis Hamilton and Mark Webber.  Mark Webber came out on top in that duel, later hearing Hamilton saying that his car had problems in 5th gear.  Hamilton finished in 7th place, Webber in 6th.

Sebastien Vettel and Robert Kubica suffered the same fate as last week's race in Australia, not being able to finish the race.  Only this time Vettel spun out when it was raining, while Kubica's engine bay caught fire well before it started to rain.

The safety car was deployed when it really began to pour with rain, at this point Jenson Button was in the lead with Nick Heidfeld following close at 2nd place and Timo Glock in 3rd.  The race was then stopped after the conditions were deemed unsafe for racing, those left in the race assembling at the start/finish line. After nearly an hour of waiting the race was abandoned all together.

Half the points were awarded to the drivers, since they did not complete 75% of the race.  The next race will be in two weeks at China's Shanghai International Circuit.  All we can hope for this time is for a dry, steward-free race.

Jenson Button has managed to claim pole position again for the second race of the 2009 Formula 1 season.  It seemed like we were going to witness another 1-2 pole position for the Brawn GP drivers, but Toyota's Jarno Trulli managed get in the way of that, snatching second place on the starting grid. Sebastien Vettel will start at third place, while Button's team mate, Rubens Barrichello, will start fourth on the grid.

Last week's race was not a great one for Lewis Hamilton, he managed to finish in fourth place starting from 18th on the grid, but got disqualified after  it was found that he provided false information to the stewards at Melbourne.  Tomorrow, Hamilton will again be starting further down the grid at 13th place, while Felippe Massa starts at 16th place.  Fernando Alonso finds himself in 10th position, and will be following Kimi Raikkonen very closely at 9th position.

The race starts at 17:00 hrs Malaysian time, and if it is anything as unpredictable as last week's race, it will surely turn out to be an exciting one.  We just hope that there wont be any need for the stewards to be involved in the final results.

What a turn of events.  We all knew that the changes made to the F1 cars would rearrange the starting grid and and indeed who would end up winning.  But it still comes as a surprise to see Jenson Button on pole position for tommorrow's race at Melbourne.  Considering the past few seasons haven't exactly been favourable for the British driver, and the fact that he and his team mate Rubens Barrichello are racing for the all new racing team Brawn GP, it comes as a fantastic start to both Button and the new team.

21 year old Sebastien Vettel takes third place on the starting grid, with Robert Kubica taking fourth while Nico Rosberg grabs fifth place.  As for the 2008 Driver's Champion, Lewis Hamilton, we see him placed at a very low fifteenth place thanks to some gearbox problems. On the other hand Felipe Massa is further up the grid at seventh place, Jarno Trulli at eighth, and Kimi Raikonnen in ninth place.

Tommorow promises to be a very interesting race, do not miss it.

This is a great time for fans of Formula 1, it's back this sunday!. The 2009 season promises to be one of the most exciting seasons ever, with a number of changes brought in to significantly alter the handling of the F1 machinery.  It is fair to say that F1 is no longer going to be the predictable sport it once was, at least not for this season.  The good people at msn.com have uploaded a video to give us an idea of what to expect for the 2009 season. 

A Closer look at F1 Teams 2009