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Jenson Button Made it two wins from as many starts in 2009 F1 betting with victory in the rain shortened 2009 Formula 1 Malaysian Grand Prix.

1 Jenson Button 55:30.622 (31 Laps)
2 Nick Heidfeld +22.7 secs
3 Timo Glock +23.5 secs
4 Jarno Trulli +46.1 secs
5 23 Rubens Barrichello +47.3 secs
6 Mark Webber +52.3 secs
7 Lewis Hamilton +60.7 secs
8 Nico Rosberg +71.5 secs
9 Felipe Massa +76.9 secs
10 Sebastien Bourdais +102.164 secs
11 Fernando Alonso +109.422 secs
12 Kazuki Nakajima +116.130 secs
13 Nelsinho Piquet +116.713 secs
14 Kimi Räikkönen +142.841 secs
15 Sebastian Vettel LAP30 Spin
16 Sebastien Buemi LAP30 Spin
17 Adrian Sutil LAP30 +1 Lap
18 Giancarlo Fisichella LAP29 Spin 18
Ret Robert Kubica 1 lAP Engine 6
Ret Heikki Kovalainen 0 LAPS Spin

Half points awarded because the race was stopped early due to heavy rain. F1 drivers must complete 75% of the race or 42 of the 56 laps (in this case) for full points to be awarded.

Quotes from Malaysian Grand Prix Press Conference:

Jenson Button: What a crazy race. It really was. My start was pretty bad. I had a lot of oversteer in the car. I don’t think I got heat into the rear tyres and went back to fourth, got up to third and eventually got back to the front and I was pretty happy with that. Our pace was good and then the rain started but choosing the tyres was very difficult. Normally here when it rains it pours but it didn’t to start with. We went for the full wet tyre and it just destroyed itself and we saw Timo flying up behind us on the inter, so we put the inter on. Then just as he came by I saw his tyres were bald and it was raining out the back and he was struggling quite a bit on it and had to pit. I got one lap in on the inter with reasonable pace and I was able to get in and put the wet tyre on and come out in front. A very interesting race and I still haven’t seen the chequered flag without a safety car in front.

Nick Heidfeld: I think it was a very difficult race obviously in these conditions. I took the right tyre choice, well, not the perfect tyre choice as I went straight to extremes. As Jenson said there is normally heavy rainfall here. Then the team told me there is heavy rain expected and I told them inters would be a lot quicker now. Then just when they told me to pit it started to rain heavier and actually it was just 200 metres from the pit entry and I said ‘no, no I stay out as it starts to rain more heavy.’ I tried to preserve my tyres at the beginning and some other guys were quicker than me on the extreme wets and I knew if the rain starts then hopefully I can stay out. But still my rear tyres were destroyed completely and were slicks basically. When it started to rain I just tried to stay on the circuit.

Timo Glock: It was a tricky race I have to say but in the end I have to say one of the best races I could ever do. We struggled a bit at the start. I don’t know why we lost so many places. I couldn’t believe Fernando and Kimi were in front of me at the first corner. I didn’t know where they came from and I struggled and I was only, I think, P8 after the first lap and the traffic was really tricky and after five or six laps I saw already the clouds were coming and I was asking ‘when is the rain coming, when is the rain coming’ and they said you know it should come in the next couple of minutes and then I thought it takes so long as you saw the big clouds coming definitely. It took just so long and we were so close to the first pit stop, so I said ‘okay I will take the risk and we will go for it and go to inters and then we will see.’ I saw already Felipe Massa was on heavy wets quite early and I knew that will destroy the tyres as well, so I said ‘come on, we go for it and take the risk’ and in the end it paid off. But the last two laps behind the safety car it was so confusing. My engineer told me when I did the pit stop ‘you are leading the race,’ so I said ‘okay, I don’t push because I want to save the tyres.’ Then I saw Jenson coming out just ahead of me, so I was P2. Then I jumped out of the car and now I am here I am P3. So hopefully when I come back down I will still be in P3. That’s what I am hoping for.