Sunday 7th June 2009

Although Brawn had completely dominated the season up to this point, by now it was beginning to become clear that the team’s lack of money was costing it in the development race and Red Bull was catching up. Sebastian Vettel took pole at the Turkish Grand Prix and got away from the line in the lead – crucial, given that he was running a three-stop strategy compared to Jenson Button’s two.
However, Vettel then ran wide coming out of Turn 10, handing Button the lead. Button made the most of it, too, going on to win for the sixth time in seven races ahead of Vettel with Mark Webber third – amazingly, he wouldn’t win again for the rest of the season, and only made two more visits to the podium.