Reigning champion Button back with a bang

28Mar10

After Bahrain GP everyone was saying that it will be very tough for Jensen Button to retain his championship but in Qantas he showed why he is still a favorite to win the championship by completing a very clean race and ending it with good 12sec margin ahead of the second position Robert Kubica, Felipe Massa completing the podium places by finishing third.

But it was Fernando Alonso who stole the complete attention by first having to go through a very bad accident in the very first lap of the race, which took Micheal Schumacher along with him for whom this was another not so good race keeping in mind his past reputation, and Alonso began the fight back and managed to end the race with healthy 4th place finish.

For the complete results of the race are as follows:-

2010 FORMULA 1 QANTAS AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts
1	1	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	58	1:33:36.531	4	25
2	11	Robert Kubica	Renault	58	+12.0 secs	9	18
3	7	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	58	+14.4 secs	5	15
4	8	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	58	+16.3 secs	3	12
5	4	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	58	+16.6 secs	6	10
6	2	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	58	+29.8 secs	11	8
7	15	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	58	+59.8 secs	13	6
8	9	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	58	+60.5 secs	8	4
9	6	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	58	+67.3 secs	2	2
10	3	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes GP	58	+69.3 secs	7	1
11	17	Jaime Alguersuari	STR-Ferrari	58	+71.3 secs	17
12	22	Pedro de la Rosa	BMW Sauber-Ferrari	58	+74.0 secs	14
13	19	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Cosworth	56	+2 Laps	19
14	20	Karun Chandhok	HRT-Cosworth	53	+5 Laps	22
Ret	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	41	+17 Laps	23
Ret	25	Lucas di Grassi	Virgin-Cosworth	26	+32 Laps	24
Ret	5	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	25	+33 Laps	1
Ret	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	9	Engine	10
Ret	12	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	9	+49 Laps	18
Ret	21	Bruno Senna	HRT-Cosworth	4	+54 Laps	21
Ret	16	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	0	Accident	12
Ret	10	Nico Hulkenberg	Williams-Cosworth	0	Accident	15
Ret	23	Kamui Kobayashi	BMW Sauber-Ferrari	0	Accident	16
Ret	18	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Cosworth	0	Hydraulics	20